Despite my having studied language and linguistics for decades, I'm always running across new words, or words that are new to me at least. A few recent examples:
- "Jurist" as a synonym for "juror"
- "falsity" as a synonym for "falsehood"
- "Usurper" is a word often used on Game of Thrones. I recently heard a related word for first time, however, which is "usurpation." Both are nouns, but one is a person, and the other is the action that person does. (The usurper practices usurpation.)
- The word "vog" as an actual word scientists use to describe volcanic smog
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