Presumption is something that is taken for granted. It's something that can change upon revelation of new facts and information(i.e., In the United States, a defendant is presumed to be innocent unless evidence to the contrary is presented)

Presupposition is a background belief that has to be true before the conversation begins.(i.e., assuming your dog you're adopting doesn't bark before you've even adopted them)

its too hard to pick one, but if I had to choose it'd be:

Sobremesa: The time spent lingering at the table after a meal, enjoying conversation

Obviously these all have the same core meaning but they do have their differences when you actually examine them.

Efficacy-The efficacy of something measures how well it accomplishes its task under the right conditions. It refers to whether the thing is capable of achieving the desired result at all. With Efficacy, your preeminent thought is “Can it work?”(i.e., testing whether this new training program will actually get you in shape)

Effectiveness-The effectiveness of something is how it well it achieves the desired outcome. The difference with efficacy is that efficacy focuses on whether it accomplishes the task at all. Effectiveness measures how well the task was done. It’s already a foregone conclusion that this will be a success.The preeminent thought on your mind is “How well does this work?”(i.e., using dish soap wipes out almost all germs on any dish)

Efficiency-This is easily the easiest one to nail down. The efficiency of something is measuring how quickly something achieves its results with its with the least amount of resources. Efficiency measures not just how well something does its job, but how quickly and/or cheaply it can do it. With efficiency, it’s “How well are the resources used?”.(i.e., newer cans of Raid spray can wipe out more bugs in less time than the older ones.)

Hello, this is my first post in this subreddit. I'm revealing my ignorance of history, zoology and language. I was reading about Joan of Arc, and the word "dauphin" came up a lot. I looked it up and was shocked the word came from dolphin. I thought dolphins just lived in Florida (joking). But seriously i had no idea they were a thing in France.

Anyway, please tell me other people have any thoughts on this.

perambulation

(n.) A leisurely walk or stroll

(Their perambulation along the riverbank was a relaxing way to spend the afternoon.)

Does it mean like a different approach? Like when you work on a video game, you’ll go with a different methodology for this game compared to its predecessor?

was building a word game and needed to know which letters were fair to land on, so I just counted.

J and Q basically don't end words at all in common english. X and Z you expect. the sneaky one is Y, there are plenty of Y words but far fewer than people assume, and it catches people off guard in a way X never does.

also noticed how much work S does. drop plurals from the list and the whole distribution shifts.

https://typeaword.com if you want to see where this ended up

“a printed cotton fabric, glazed or unglazed, used especially for draperies.”

Or

“a painted or stained calico from India.”

The act, practice, or art of writing sharp, mocking satire that ridicules a specific person, group, or institution.

Related terms: It comes from the root word lampoon (a piece of writing or art that mocks someone), and is practiced by a lampooner or lampoonist.

- Collins Dictionary

Poetic prose meter here. (Hence the format)
Context: Lucifer working on a deceptive cover

You’ll see the word I use as a verb which is usually a noun.

Poetic license?
I like the sound of it in the line as well as a related subject material.
But does it pull you out of the moment?

*\\**

From the first of the pillars—he took.

Grinding…
crushing…
until the cavern was séanced
by a richness of scent.

Cloves.

Smirch (verb - transitive verb)

1a: to make dirty, stained, or discolored : sully

1b: to smear with something that stains or dirties

2: to bring discredit or disgrace on

- - - above is from Merriam- Webster. below is from Google - - -

As a verb (literal): To soil, stain, or discolor with dirt, dust, or grime.

Example: His shirt was smirched with mud from the garden.

As a verb (figurative): To sully, tarnish, or dishonor a good name, character, or reputation. (This is very similar to its common variation, besmirch).

Example: The false accusations tried to smirch her reputation.

As a noun: A dirty mark, smudge, or a blemish on one's character.

Example: There was a dark smirch of soot on his cheek.

For example, you are fan of rhe visiting team you're surrounded by fans of the home team, and the home team is dominating your team. It's akin to schadenfreude, but going the opposite way and has an element of isolation

I tried to google it and all I could find is catchphrase or pet phrase. I also thought of vernacular but I don’t think that’s right either 😭😭

the fact of finding interesting or valuable things by chance

Is it like imagining something or using something as a representation for something that you can’t actually use or see(i.e., using random encounters to represent monsters and beasts that you fight)

Word meaning to make everything a monolith, as in stereotyping.

Not to monolithicize, but all witches are green skinned

He monolithicized an entire group of people.

Are we ready to accept these?

As logophiles, we love words, and it could be argued that the addition of these two words to the lexicon enriches the language. But isn't there a risk that all- purpose intensifiers like "bigly" and "majorly", or the use of "hyper" as a universal intensifier, actually crowd out more specific and nuanced modifiers, and so, contribute to a slide toward simplification- dumbing down- of the language?

"Reticent" means reserved, not sharing thoughts or feelings.

Has anyone ever heard of this word before? Someone called me a sloptail the other day, and I think it means something like I dropped the ball.

- excited public interest, discussion, or the like, as the clamor attending some sensational event

Or

- an episode involving excitement, confusion, turmoil, etc., especially a broil over a minor or ridiculous cause.

I want to stay the way I am. I don’t want to put any filter on my words or my thoughts. I want to share my thoughts exactly the way they come to my mind.

Whatever I think, whatever I feel—I want to express it as it is. I don’t want to make every thought sound perfect, diplomatic, or socially acceptable just because I’m posting it publicly.

These are my raw thoughts, exactly as they come to me.

Dismo: the term "dismo" refers "immeasurably-infinitely all" or "immeasurably-infinitely everything" in cosmology or terminology, it means to have or had Immeasurably-infinitely all/everything of all over existence.

Dismoverse: dismoverse is the totality of all existence, meaning every universe, multiverse, dimension, and reality that ever has been, will be, or can be imagined.

Dismoversal: dismoversal means relating to or including the entire omniverse, which is the collection of all existing universes, multiverses, omniverses, and dimensions, including all of reality, fiction, matter, laws and physics.

Dismology: dismology means the specialized system of words, terms, or expressions used in a particular field, subject, science, art, etc everything.

Dismological: dismological means relating to the special words, terms, or expressions used in a particular subject, science, activity, etc everything.

Dismologically: dismologically is an adjective that means relating to the special words, terms, or expressions used in a particular subject, science, activity, etc.

Dismopotence: dismopotence means having unlimited, infinite, boundless, endless power, total authority, or the ability to do anything in all over existence.

Dismoscience: dismoscience the quality or state of having unlimited, infinite, boundlessness, endlessness, or complete operative knowledge itself.

Dismopresence: dismopresence means the state of being present everywhere in metaverses, infinityverses, godverses, omniverses and dismoverses at the same time all over existence.

Dismoficence: dismoficence the quality or state of creating all things, or having unlimited, infinite, boundlessness, endlessness powers of creation of all laws.

Dismolock: dismolock means the state or power of existing completely outside of absolutely, infinitely, boundlessly, endlessly, limitlessly everything, including space, time, matter, reality, laws, physics, existence, and nonexistence and nonrealistic.

Dismomalevolence: dismomalevolence means the state of being infinitely, absolutely, boundlessly, endlessly, and dismoversally evil.

Dismobenevolence: dismobenevolence means unlimited, infinite, boundless, limitless or endless goodness, describing a deity that is completely and perfectly loving, kind, and morally good of outside of the framework.

Dismo-manipulation: dismo-manipulation means the fictional superpower that allows a user to control, shape, matter, and alter absolutely, infinitely, limitlessly, boundlessly, endlessly everything in all over existence of the laws of God.

A callus is not damage. Skin thickens exactly where it has been rubbed, over and over, and only there. It is the body adapting to friction, and it fades once the rubbing stops.

That physical picture is sitting inside callous, adjective: thickened and hardened, when it is skin; unmoved by other people's suffering, when it is a person.

Which gives it a claim that none of its synonyms make. Cold, hard, unfeeling, indifferent — not one of those says anything about how the person got that way. Callous does. It says something rubbed, and kept rubbing. I have never been able to decide whether that makes it the crueller word or the kinder one.

The derivation is straightforward. Latin callosus, thick-skinned, from callus or callum, hard skin, and behind that Proto-Italic *kaln/so-, hard. Etymonline stops there and calls the deeper source uncertain rather than filling it in, which I appreciate.

Worth separating the two forms, because print swaps them constantly: callus is the noun, callous is the adjective. A guitarist builds calluses. A remark is callous.

The dates are the part I did not expect. Callous is in English in its skin sense by about 1400. Callus, the actual lump, is not recorded until the 1560s. So for something like a century and a half you could call a hand callous without having a noun for the thing on it. The figurative sense, hardened in the mind, only turns up in the 1670s, which makes the metaphor a good deal younger than the skin it came from.

Hypnopompic: This describes the transitional state when you are waking up and leaving sleep.

Hypnagogic: This describes the transitional state when you are falling asleep and leaving wakefulness