abreaction (en)

(noun) the expression and emotional discharge of unconscious material (as a repressed idea or emotion) by verbalization especially in the presence of a therapist

agitprop (en)

political (originally communist) propaganda, especially in art or literature

antic (en)

(adjective) grotesque bizarre / characterized by clownish extravagance or absurdity / whimsically gay; frolicsome

antic (en)

(adjective) grotesque bizarre / characterized by clownish extravagance or absurdity / whimsically gay; frolicsome

aperçu (en)

(borrowed from French) a comment or brief reference that makes an illuminating or entertaining point

apotheosis (en)

the highest point in the development of something; culmination or climax

Auguste Rodin (en)

a French sculptor; generally considered the progenitor of modern sculpture

aviatrix (en)

(noun) a woman who is an aviator

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"

bombast (en)

(noun) pretentious inflated speech or writing

bricolage (en)

(noun) construction (as of a sculpture or a structure of ideas) achieved by using whatever comes to hand / (noun) something constructed in this way

cadenza (en)

(noun) a parenthetical flourish in an aria or other solo piece commonly just before a final or other important cadence / (noun) a technically brilliant sometimes improvised solo passage toward the close of a concerto / (noun) an exceptionally brilliant part of an artistic and especially a literary work

Chaim Soutine (en)

A Russian painter of Belarusian Jewish origin who made a major contribution to the expressionist movement while living in Paris in the early 20th century

chiasmus (en)

(noun) a rhetorical or literary figure in which words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order, in the same or a modified form; e.g. ‘Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.’.

compere (en)

(noun) the master of ceremonies of an entertainment (as a television program) / (verb) to act as compere for / (verb) to act as a compere

conatus (la)

means effort, endeavor, impulse, inclination, tendency, undertaking striving; in early philosophies of psychology and metaphysics, is an innate inclination of a thing to continue to exist and enhance itself

cornice (en)

(noun) the molded and projecting horizontal member that crowns an architectural composition

couvade (en)

(noun) a custom in some cultures in which when a child is born the father takes to bed as if bearing the child and submits himself to fasting, purification, or taboos

dappled (en)

(adjective) marked with small spots or patches contrasting with the background

declension (en)

(noun) a falling off or away; deterioration / (noun) descent slope

dialectical materialism (en)

(noun) the Marxist theory that maintains the material basis of a reality constantly changing in a dialectical process and the priority of matter over mind

dolor (en)

(noun) mental suffering or anguish; grief

edifying (en)

(verb) build / (verb) establish / (verb) to instruct and improve especially in moral and religious knowledge; uplift / (verb) enlighten inform

encomium (en)

a speech or piece of writing that praises someone or something highly (plural: encomia). as the adjective encomiastic, means bestowing praise, eulogistic, laudatory