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What are some of your favorite words you've come across while reading? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by OptimistPrime@sh.itjust.works to c/books@lemmy.ml

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Mine is "palimpsest". I first encountered this word while reading The Secret History by Donna Tartt.

Definition: a manuscript or piece of writing material on which the original writing has been effaced to make room for later writing but of which traces remain.

I love that there's a word for this.

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[–] TychoRC@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

I just came across "palimpsest" for the first time recently too! It was while reading The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, by VE Schwab. It's been a while since I had to look a word up, so it stuck in my mind, lol.