The 63 words posted so far on the GOOD.WORDS.TO.KNOW board, grouped by subject and by language of origin. Many words belong under more than one subject. Each word opens its card. Words listed under To Be Published are cards still in preparation; they are not yet linked.
See also: all the words in alphabetical order on the Word Study page.
By Subject · By Language of Origin · Japanese Aesthetics Cards
By Subject
Argument & Reasoning (11, 8 to be published)
conflate · dialectic · dogmatic · empirical · heuristic · lemma · semantic · sophistry · specious · spurious · tenuous
To Be Published: a priori · ad hominem · begging the question · non sequitur · reductio ad absurdum · sine qua non · straw man · tendentious
Books, Language & Scholarship (7, 2 to be published)
exegesis · lemma · pace · prolegomenon · semantic · slopocalypse · tsundoku
To Be Published: cf. · sic
Character & Temperament (12, 2 to be published)
atavistic · dogmatic · iconoclast · idiosyncrasy · ingenuous · laconic · mercurial · myopic · sardonic · solipsism · stoic · toxophile
To Be Published: amae · hubris
Japanese Aesthetics & Poetics (1, 20 to be published)
To Be Published: fueki ryūkō · honkadori · ichigo ichie · iki · kakekotoba · karumi · kireji · ma · makurakotoba · miyabi · mushin · okashi · sabi · shibui · shoshin · ukiyo · utamakura · wabi · yojō · yūgen
Literature, Art & Rhetoric (13, 23 to be published)
apostrophe · ave atque vale · catharsis · ekphrasis · elegy, elegiac · eponymous · in medias res · laconic · mimesis · pastiche · polutropos · prelapsarian · rococo
To Be Published: anachronism · anaphora · bildungsroman · cacophony · chiasmus · deus ex machina · fueki ryūkō · giri ninjō · hamartia · honkadori · hubris · kakekotoba · karumi · kireji · litotes · makurakotoba · okashi · synecdoche · ukiyo · utamakura · verisimilitude · yojō · zeugma
Mood & Atmosphere (9, 3 to be published)
l’appel du vide · baleful · diaphanous · elegy, elegiac · inexorable · liminal · maw · mono no aware · numinous
To Be Published: cacophony · mujō · natsukashii
Myth, Religion & the Sacred (11, 1 to be published)
apostasy · augury · chimera · dionysian · exegesis · iconoclast · liminal · mercurial · numinous · panacea · prelapsarian
To Be Published: mujō
Philosophy & Ideas (16, 13 to be published)
catharsis · dialectic · dionysian · empirical · etiology · heuristic · metaphysical · mimesis · prolegomenon · qualia · rhizomatic · solipsism · sophistry · stoic · teleological · zeitgeist
To Be Published: a priori · epistemology · giri ninjō · ichigo ichie · mujō · mushin · ontology · paradigm · praxis · quintessential · shoshin · utilitarian · verisimilitude
Precise Everyday Words (13, 7 to be published)
chimera · conflate · eponymous · felicitous · fungible · inexorable · invidious · obviate · pace · panacea · penultimate · tenuous · zeitgeist
To Be Published: anachronism · exigency · paradigm · quintessential · sine qua non · tendentious · utilitarian
By Language of Origin
English (3, 3 to be published)
baleful · maw · slopocalypse
To Be Published: begging the question · straw man · utilitarian
French (3)
l’appel du vide · pastiche · rococo
German (1, 2 to be published)
To Be Published: bildungsroman · tendentious
Greek (32, 13 to be published)
apostasy · apostrophe · catharsis · chimera · dialectic · diaphanous · dionysian · dogmatic · ekphrasis · elegy, elegiac · empirical · eponymous · etiology · exegesis · heuristic · iconoclast · idiosyncrasy · laconic · lemma · metaphysical · mimesis · myopic · panacea · polutropos · prolegomenon · rhizomatic · sardonic · semantic · sophistry · stoic · teleological · toxophile
To Be Published: anachronism · anaphora · cacophony · chiasmus · epistemology · hamartia · hubris · litotes · ontology · paradigm · praxis · synecdoche · zeugma
Japanese (2, 24 to be published)
To Be Published: amae · fueki ryūkō · giri ninjō · honkadori · ichigo ichie · iki · kakekotoba · karumi · kireji · ma · makurakotoba · miyabi · mujō · mushin · natsukashii · okashi · sabi · shibui · shoshin · ukiyo · utamakura · wabi · yojō · yūgen
Latin (22, 11 to be published)
atavistic · augury · ave atque vale · conflate · felicitous · fungible · in medias res · inexorable · ingenuous · invidious · liminal · mercurial · numinous · obviate · pace · penultimate · prelapsarian · qualia · solipsism · specious · spurious · tenuous
To Be Published: a priori · ad hominem · cf. · deus ex machina · exigency · non sequitur · quintessential · reductio ad absurdum · sic · sine qua non · verisimilitude
Japanese Aesthetics & Poetics: The Cards
Japanese terms for beauty, feeling and the craft of poetry, shown as their cards. More are in preparation and will appear here as they are posted. Each card opens on the board.
