New (Old) Words
Listed here are forgotten and newly acquired words discovered while reading Saul Bellow's novel The Vicitm.
A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life. ~ Saul Bellow "Bellow’s general strategy is to flatten and blur anything in the environment of the story that might weaken concentration on the foreground ethical melodrama he has constructed." Saul Bellow Interview Commentary on The Victim
GOYIM: non-Jews
ReplyDeleteFELLAHIN: an Egyptian peasant.
ReplyDeleteBILDUNGSROMAN: a novel dealing with one person's formative years or spiritual education.
ReplyDeleteTENEBROUS: shut off from the light DARK, MURKY
ReplyDeleteEFFRONTERY: insolent or impertinent behavior
ReplyDeleteHYPOCHONDRIA: abnormal anxiety about one's health, especially with an unwarranted fear that one has a serious disease.
ReplyDeleteTACITURNITY: the state or quality of being reserved or reticent in conversation.
ReplyDeleteEMPYREAN: the place in the highest heaven, which was supposed to be occupied by the element of fire.
ReplyDeleteBUNK: nonsense
ReplyDeleteTRIFLE: something of little value, substance, or importance.
ReplyDeleteSTUMBLEBUM: a clumsy or inept person
ReplyDeleteCALAMITY: a disastrous event marked by great loss and lasting distress and suffering
ReplyDeleteSWARTHY: of a dark color, complexion, or cast.
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