Wednesday, March 5, 2008

vocabulary

grad school changes the tone of acceptable quotidian discourse; here's a list of words I use now and wouldn't have a year ago:

prolegomena
epistemologically
discourse
metanarrative
revisionist
reductionist
as a corrective to
baudelairian
sui generis
ad hoc
ex post facto
historical and dialectical materialism
historical myopia
antinomy (twice found in books about France in the 20s!)
hermeneutic
intra-archipelagic
stochastic
fungible
somnolence
Braudelian
synecdochical