This is an archive of the new words I have discovered this semester

Contemporaneously

Living or occurring during the same period of time; contemporary.

Affordance

The quality or property of an object that defines its possible uses or makes clear how it can or should be used

Bistre

A brownish-yellow colour

Plateau

1. An area of fairly level high ground
2. A state of little or no change following a period of activity or progress

Caustic

1. Able to burn or corrode organic tissue by chemical action
2. Sarcastic in a scathing and bitter way

   Hyderabad

   A city in southern India, joint capital of the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana; population 4,025,300

   Quiscence

   Inactivity or dormancy

   Rhyzomatic

   Rhizome is a philosophical concept developed by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in their Capitalism and Schizophrenia (1972–1980) project. It is what Deleuze calls an “image of thought”, based on the botanical rhizome, that apprehends multiplicities.

   Multiplicity

   A large number or variety

   Mediacentric

   Having a focus on the media

   Ad nauseam

   To a disgusting or ridiculous degree; to the point of nausea

   Infinitesimal

   an indefinitely small quantity; a value approaching zero.

   Abracadarium

   n/a

   disparate

   essentially different in kind; not able to be compared.

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