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WORD SALAD: a confused or unintelligible mixture of seemingly random words and phrases

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​ADOXOGRAPHY - beautiful writing on a subject of little importance.

APOTHEGM - a short instructive statement.

ARGOT - the vocabulary of a profession or specialized group

BAFFLEGAB - completely unintelligible jargon.

CAPRICE - a sudden, impulsive, and seemingly unmotivated notion or action or unpredictable
change or series of changes. From the Italian capriccio meaning “shudder.”

CARRIWITCHET - a pun or paradox: a riddling question.

CHARTA - leaf of paper for writing. Latin.

CHEVILLE - a word or expression that fills a metrical gap in a verse to balance a sentence.

ESEMPLASTIC - ability to compose complex concepts or diverse functions elements into a unified whole.

FACETIAE - witty or humorous writings or sayings. It was borrowed from the Latin facētiae meaning “amusing things, jests," plural of facētia meaning "cleverness, aptness of expression, wit," from facētus "clever, choosing or judging adeptly, witty"

FOXING - the yellow brown tinge of the pages of old books.

HELLENOMANIA refers to the act of using long Latin and Greek terms instead of readily understandable English words.

HORTATORY - ability to urge action. Rhetoric or persuasive speech.

INCUNABULA - the earliest stage - for example, the outline or the first draft of a book.

INVEIGLE - to entice or lure by flattery or artful words.

INGEMINATE - to repeat or reiterate.

LEITMOTIF - a recurring overarching idea. A recurrent theme throughout a musical or literary composition, associated with a particular person, idea, or situation.

NODUS - an intricate or difficult plot.

ONOMASTIC - proper name.

PARALUMAN - a muse that inspires artistically.

PARNASSIAN - poetic.

PIERIAN - relating to learning or poetry.

PLEONASM - redundant. The use of too many words to express a simple concept.

POECILONYM - a word that means almost the same thing as another. The word ‘synonym’ has its own synonym.

PRINCEPS - term for first editions or first printings.

RHAPSODY - (in ancient Greece) an epic poem, or part of it, of a suitable length for recitation at one time. Derived via Latin from the Greek rhapsōidia, from rhaptein meaning “stitch’ and ōidē meaning “song, ode’.”

SCRIBATIOUS - describes someone who is good at writing and fond of doing it. One might say that some of our more prolific diarists here are quite scribacious.

STORIOLOGY - study of the development of legends and tales.

SNIGLET - a word coined for something that has no name.

TELIC - directed to a definite conclusion or end.

VAGARY - an unpredictable instance, a wandering whimsical journey or a wild and unusual idea. In writing a vagary is an erratic, unpredictable, or an extravagant meandering from the plot. From Latin vagari, meaning "to wander."

VICISSITUDE - a change of direction. A variation in the course.

VOLUBILITY - an ability to write rapidly and efficiently.

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