Words Learned

Herein you'll find a list of words I've learned for future potential use in my writing. How I adore the English language's sublime ridiculousness!

• Anodyne: not likely to cause complaint, but still dull.
• Eschatology: the theology concerning death, the afterlife, destiny, judgement, and the soul.
• Fug: a warm, stuffy/smoky atmosphere in a room.
• Heterodox: outside the usual standards or beliefs.
• Insularity: a lack of interest in other cultures.
• MIDI: (musical instrument digital interface) a standard for connecting and using electronic instruments.
• Parochialism: narrow-minded or limited outlook.
• Perspicacity: ready insight and shrewdness.
• Portentous: of momentous significance.
• Noosphere: a stage of evolutionary development concerning consciousness, the mind, and relationships.
• Phylogenetic: related to the evolutionary development of organisms.
• Rend: tear something to pieces
• Rent: a large tear in fabric.
• Splenetic: spiteful and bad-tempered.
• Solipsism: the belief all that can be known to exist is the self.
• Terminus: the last stop of a rail/bus route.

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