Obscure Book-Related Words

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Logolept: lover of words, word maniac

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I had to look retrench up to make sure I was understanding it “in context.”

Retrench-reduce costs or spending in response to economic difficulty.

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Fourscore = eighty

A score is 20 and was first used in the counting of sheep and cattle ( by making notches on a wooden cane or rod) .Origin of “score” is middle English about 1100.

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Flux = Disambiguation

Physics, chemistry and physiology: flux is a rate of movement ( flow)of a substance from one point to another

In writing or literature , disambiguation ( flux or flow) is the clarification of an idea or thought; to remove ambiguity.

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In medicine (in the past), flux has been used to refer to dysentery or diarrhea.

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Elucubration:

To read or write by candlelight

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Thomas Hardy’s use of the word SMACK in “Far From the Madding Crowd” to describe a kiss.

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Verbicide

Deliberate distortion of the meaning of a word.

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