ultracrepidate
v. to criticize beyond sphere of one’s knowledge
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mumpsimus
n. a view stubbornly held even when shown to be wrong
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snobographer
n. one who describes or writes about snobs
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uglyography
n. bad handwriting; poor spelling
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opiniaster
n. one who obstinately holds to an opinion
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afterwit
n. knowledge gained too late to do any good
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jentacular
adj. pertaining to breakfast
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hadeharia
n. constant use of the word “hell”
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wittol
n. a man who knows of and tolerates his wife’s infidelity
Charged Words
Electrical terms that Benjamin Franklin appears to have been the first to use, at least in print in English:
- armature
- battery
- brush
- charged
- charging
- condense
- conductor
- discharge
- electrical fire
- electrical shock
- electrician
- electrified
- electrify
- electrized
- Leyden bottle
- minus (negative or negatively)
- negatively
- non-conducting
- non-conductor
- non-electric
- plus (positive or positively)
- stroke (electric shock)
- uncharged
This list is from Carl Van Doren’s 1938 biography. “Though he never lost sight of what was being done in electricity during his whole lifetime, he was perfectly willing to have his contributions to it absorbed in the enlarging science. They were absorbed, and it is now difficult to trace the details of his influence.”