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Tue, 04 Aug 2009

Russell Kirk's Fun With Words

I've been packing up some of my books for storage this summer, and finding a variety of things stuck between the pages as I do—from old bills and paystubs to unused gift certificates and bookmarks from long-gone bookstores. In my copy of Russell Kirk's The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot I found this delightful list of words and phrases:

• ab origine
• ab ovo
• afflatus
• bathos
• buckram
• casuist
• condottieri
• contemner
• coruscations
• dolorous
• effulgence
• energumen
• equipollent
• fatuity
• hyperborean
• imperium in imperio
• integument
• jobbery
• liberum veto
• lineaments
• meliorist
• melioristic
• obloquy
• ochlocracy
• orotund
• pelf
• perspicuous
• re infecta
• recrudescence
• repine
• sans culottess
• Savonarola
• secundum artem
• tidewaiter
• Tophet
• transeat
• ultima thule
• vaticinations
• votaries

I'd guess that all but a handful of these words were new to me at the time ("lineaments", though, I'd seen before thanks to an obsession with William Blake during high school), and even now I see several (like the timely "jobbery") that I really ought to make an effort to remember.

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