keep track of my favorite words

Many words are beautiful, some words are exquisite. Mostly I need to make room for new goals.

To leave hurriedly.

si·de·re·al (sī-dîr’ē-əl) answers.com
adj.
1. Of, relating to, or concerned with the stars or constellations; stellar.
2. Measured or determined by means of the apparent daily motion of the stars: sidereal time.

ga·lumph (gə-lŭmf’)
intr.v., -lumphed, -lumph·ing, -lumphs.
To move or run clumsily or heavily.

polyp (′päl·əp)
(invertebrate zoology) A sessile cnidarian individual having a hollow, somewhat cylindrical body, attached at one end, with a mouth surrounded by tentacles at the free end; may be solitary (hydra) or colonial (coral).
(medicine) A smooth, rounded or oval mass projecting from a membrane-covered surface.

im·bri·cate (ĭm’brĭ-kāt’)
adj.
Having regularly arranged, overlapping edges, as roof tiles or fish scales.

croft (krôft, krŏft)
n. Chiefly British.
A small enclosed field or pasture near a house.
A small farm, especially a tenant farm.

er·ra·ta (ĭ-rä’tə, ĭ-rā’-)
n.
Plural of erratum.

erratum

noun

An act or thought that unintentionally deviates from what is correct, right, or true: error, inaccuracy, incorrectness, lapse, miscue, misstep, mistake, slip, slip-up, trip. See correct/incorrect.

I interpret “errata” as heterodoxical, and in that sense occult or arcane, relating to mysteries, magic, or profound science. cf. “erudite”, “erratic” vs. “heretic”, similarly “ecclectic”, “acolyte”, “arachnids” as signs of mystery, “rat(chets)” and “(g)ears” being mechanical things that work, as I see it errata in general may relate to metaphorical machines “apparata errata” i.e. theoretical perpetual motion devices. The title seems apt at least for the majority of cases under the conventional definition.

Semaphore: (answers.com)
1. A visual signaling apparatus with flags, lights, or mechanically moving arms, as one used on a railroad.
2. A visual system for sending information by means of two flags that are held one in each hand, using an alphabetic code based on the position of the signaler’s arms.

There may also be an academic sense relating to semiotics.

Madrigal: (Am. heritage dictionary)
1. a. A song for two or three unaccompanied voices, developed in Italy in the late 13th and early 14th centuries.
b. A short poem, often about love, suitable for being set to music.
2. a. A polyphonic song using a vernacular text and written for four to six voices, developed in Italy in the 16th century and popular in England in the 16th and early 17th centuries.
b. A part song.

Synergy: (american heritage college dictionary)
a. The interaction of two or more agents or forces so that their combined effect is greater than the sum of their individual effects.
b. Cooperative interaction among groups, especially among the acquired subsidiaries or merged parts of a corporation, that creates an enhanced combined effect.

~ quarantine
~ origami
~ ballistics
~ pumpkin

the obligation to move

top ten favourite words

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G uses this word.

I’m not very good at it—in the sense in which it is most probably used; one who pretends to knowledge or cleverness, in other words a smart aleck. This would seem to be a good thing but because so many people indulge in wiseacring, you look odd when you don’t, or at least that’s how I often feel in company.

The word derives from middle Dutch wijssegger a soothsayer via an Old High German word for a prophet. I’m not very good at that either, you know the joke prediction is always tricky especially of the future.

An American synonym is wisenheimer which I also like.

bricolage

building by trial and error rather than based on theory

grok

...but to say you grok LISP is to claim that you have deeply entered the world-view and spirit of the language …

Unfortunately I have never grokked anything, certainly not godel