beaver /BEE-vər/. noun or verb. A large, amphibious rodent. To work industriously and eagerly at something.
tropism
tropism /TROH-pizm/. noun. The movement of an organism in reaction to some stimulus. Instinctual tendencies.
colophon
colophon /KAWL-ə-fən/. noun. A section in a book detailing the book’s production. A publishers logo, emblem or mark.
wolf
wolf /wuulf/. noun or verb. A large, dog-like mammal. A voracious or cruel person. To gulp down.
marathon
marathon /MAIR-ə-thon/. noun. A foot race of 26 miles, 385 yards. Abstractly, a difficult, arduous task.
poshlost / poshlust
/POSH-ləst/. Adjective. Banality and kitsch, vulgarity and triviality, all riddled with a lack of spirituality and an overt physicality, even sexuality.
apophasis
/ə-PAW-fə-sis/. noun. A rhetorical device in which one asserts something by saying they won’t bring it up. Apophasis can often be identified by phrases such as, “not to mention.”
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