Words You Have Taught Me — Feb 2020
#13 — one lucky listicle
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5 min readFeb 1, 2020
curated by Joe Váradi
What a year of reading and learning it’s been already.
Less than one month since I published the last WYHTM, and already I have enough material for lucky #13. As always, you’ll find a few proper nouns as well as foreign words — anything that caught my eye and compelled me to read up on further.
Here is the latest in literary lingo, journalist jargon, author’s argot and pencil pusher pidgin that I soaked up here since the last time we did this …
abligurition
(rare, archaic) spending lavish amounts of money on fine foods
from Peter Flom
Ayoreo
an indigenous people (and their language) who inhabit the Gran Chaco, spanning both Bolivia and Paraguay; there are approximately 5,600 Ayoreo people in total
from Anna Daigneault by way of SAPIENS
