abeyance (en)

(noun) a lapse in succession during which there is no person in whom a title is vested / (noun) temporary inactivity; suspension

abnegation (en)

(noun) the act of renouncing or rejecting something; self-denial

acephalic (en)

(adj) without a head

alterity (en)

(noun) otherness / (noun) the quality or state of being radically alien to the conscious self or a particular cultural orientation

archaisms (en)

a thing that is very old or old-fashioned (i.e., archaic)

Baruch Spinoza (en)

Dutch philosopher of Sephardi/Portuguese origin; in Ethics, laid groundwork for the 18th-century Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism, including modern conceptions of the self and the universe

bathos (en)

(noun) a literary term coined by Alexander Pope to describe to describe amusingly failed attempts at sublimity (an effect of anticlimax created by an unintentional lapse in mood from the sublime to the trivial or ridiculous); adj is "bathetic"

bucolic (en)

(adjective) of or relating to shepherds or herdsmen; pastoral / (adjective) relating to or typical of rural life / (adjective) idyllic

Canute (en)

referring to an apocryphal anecdote illustrating the piety or humility of King Canute the Great, in which he demonstrates to his courtiers that he has no control over the elements (the incoming tide), explaining that secular power is vain compared to the supreme power of God

catechism (en)

a summary of the principles of Christian religion in the form of questions and answers, used for the instruction of Christians

cathexis (en)

(psychoanalysis) the process of investment of mental or emotional energy in a person, object, or idea

caviling (en)

(verb) to raise trivial and frivolous objection / (verb) to raise trivial objections to

egress (en)

the action of going out of or leaving a place

elision (en)

(linguistics) the omission of a sound or syllable when speaking OR the act or an instance of omitting something

eschatology (en)

the part of theology concerned with death, judgment, and the final destiny of the soul and of humankind

extirpate (en)

(verb) to destroy completely; wipe out / (verb) to pull up by the root / (verb) to cut out by surgery

factotum (en)

(noun) a person having many diverse activities or responsibilities / (noun) a general servant

frisson (en)

(noun) a brief moment of emotional excitement; shudder thrill

hoary (en)

(adjective) gray or white with or as if with age / (adjective) extremely old; ancient

idiolect (en)

(noun) the language or speech pattern of one individual at a particular period of life

inchoate (en)

just begun and so not fully formed or developed; rudimentary

indelibly (en)

in a way that cannot be removed or forgotten

interpellation (en)

(common Althusserian term) the process by which ideology, embodied in major social and political institutions (ideological & repressive state apparatuses), constitutes the very nature of individual subjects' identities through the process of "hailing" them in social interactions

invective (en)

insulting, abusive, or highly critical language

inveigle (en)

(verb) to win over by wiles; entice / (verb) to acquire by ingenuity or flattery; wangle