beleaguered (en)

besieged, troubled, beset with difficulties

caritas (la)

(noun) charity

diegetic (en)

the telling of a story by a narrator who summarizes events in the plot and comments on the conversations, thoughts, etc., of the characters

Fursichsein (en)

German for "Being for oneself"; a concept used by Hegel?

Heracles (en)

same thing as Hercules; divine hero in Greek mythology who had to perform 12 labours

Horatio Alger (en)

a prolific 19th-century American writer, best known for his many young adult novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to lives of middle-class security and comfort through hard work, determination, courage, and honesty

inhere (en)

(verb) exist essentially or permanently in

memento mori (en)

(noun) a reminder of mortality / (noun) death's-head

numismatics (en)

(noun plural but singular in construction) the study or collection of coins, tokens, and paper money and sometimes related objects (as medals)

ousia (en)

(from Greek) analogous to the English concepts of being and ontic used in contemporary philosophy; one of Heidegger's pet concepts (meaning Being)

paratext (en)

(noun) a concept in literary interpretation; the other material supplied by the author(s), editors, printers, and publishers, including front matter, back matter, footnotes, etc (the peritext) as well as the epitext (interviews, correspondence, diaries, etc); as defined by literary theorist Gérard Genette

ratiocination (en)

(noun) the process of exact thinking; reasoning / (noun) a reasoned train of thought

tarrying (en)

(verb) to delay or be tardy in acting or doing / (verb) to linger in expectation; wait / (verb) to abide or stay in or at a place