Vocabulary I Found on My Computer Machine: Part I: English: Moribund Institute
Channel: English [Moribund Institute]
Date: 2021-07-04

Augustan [オーガスタン] - Pertaining to the times of the Roman emperor Augustus (63 B.C.E. - 14 C.E.).


Ornithopter - An aircraft that generates lift through the flapping of its wings.


Cadge [キャッジ] (slang) - To obtain something by wit or guile; to convince people to do something they might not normally do. 


Cell Membrane [セル・メンブレーン] - (cytology) The semipermeable membrane that surrounds the cytoplasm of a cell. 


Chapfallen [チャプフォーレン] - Crestfallen, dejected. Etymology chap + fallen; see chap (“jaw”). 


Credentialatry [クリデンシャルアトライ] - worship of educational, academic, legal, or regulatory qualifications.


Credentialism [クレデンティアリスム] - Excessive emphasis on the importance of educational, academic, legal, or regulatory qualifications. 


Faustian [フォスチャン] (comparative more Faustian, superlative most Faustian) - Of or pertaining to Faust, especially in the sense of being willing to abandon one's principles or values in order to pursue knowledge, wealth or other benefits


Hiraeth [ヒラエス] - nostalgia, longing, homesickness, a deep feeling of yearning for a home that cannot be returned to, no longer exists, or never was.


Leveler [レベラー] - A person holding a political opinion in favor of eliminating disparities between the haves and the have nots.


Logotherapy [ローゴーセラピー] - (psychotherapy) A therapy that involves finding the meaning of one's life. 


Overdetermined [オーバーデターミンド] - (psychoanalysis) Determined by multiple causes in such a way that any of the causes on its own would be sufficient to account for the effect. 


Platonist [プレートニスト] - A member of the philosophical school of thought established by Plato; a believer in Platonism. 


Prizefighter [プライズファイター] A professional boxer. 


Probatio Diabolica [プロバティオー・ディアボリカー] - A legal requirement to achieve an impossible proof. 

Rogernomics [ローガノミクス], a portmanteau of "Roger" and "economics", was coined by journalists at the New Zealand Listener by analogy with Reaganomics to describe the neoliberal economic policies followed by Roger Douglas.


Saccharine [サカリーン] - (figurative, derogatory) Excessively sweet in action or disposition, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness; sickly sweet, syrupy. 


Soda Jerk [ソーダー・ジャーク] - (US, idiomatic, dated) A person who works at a soda fountain. 


Stylized Fact [スタイーライズド・ファクト] - (social sciences, especially economics) A simplified presentation of an empirical finding. 


Trotskyism [トロツキーズム] - The left-wing political philosophy named after and based on the ideas of Leon Trotsky that is characterized by international socialism, opposition to Stalinism, the theory of permanent revolution and the theory of the vanguard party.