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veen  ·  3765 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Share a word

Most recent English word I had to look up was pejorative, meaning "a word or grammatical form of expression that expresses contempt, criticism, hostility, disregard and/or disrespect".

I also learned about defenestration, which is the act of throwing something / someone out of the window. Autodefenestration is throwing yourself out of the window.





user-inactivated  ·  3765 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The first time I learned that word was when I learned about the Defenestration of Prague that preceded the Thirty Years' War.