A

• abreaction -- the expression + emotional discharge of unconscious material [repressed thoughts // emotions] by verbalisation.
• abrogation --  the repeal or abolition of a law, right, or agreement.
• acephalous -- not having a head.
• acme -- the point at which something is at its best or most highly developed.
• adiaphorisation -- the social production of moral indifference.
• agglutination -- [linguistics] morphological process in which words are formed by stringing together morphemes, each of which corresponds to a single syntactic feature.
• aleatory -- depending on the throw of a dice // random.
• amaurosis -- partial or complete loss of sight occurring especially without an externally perceptible change in the eye.
• amaurotic -- pertaining to amaurosis.
• anemoia -- [neologism] nostalgia for a time or place one has never known.
• anodyne -- not likely to cause offense or disagreement // somewhat dull.
• anomie -- lack of the usual social or ethical standards in an individual or group.
• anthography -- branch of botany that deals with the description of flowers
• antinomy -- real or apparent mutual incompatibility of two laws. 
• apokatastasis -- the restoration of creation to a condition of perfection.
• apotheosis -- the glorification of a subject to divine levels.
• aporia -- unresolvable internal contradiction or logical disjunction in a text, argument or theory.
• asepsis -- the absence of pathogenic [harmful] organisms.
• asymptotic -- [geometry] an asymptote of a curve is a straight line such that the distance between the curve and the line approaches zero as one or both of the x or y coordinated tends to infinity.
• atavistic - primal // describing feelings or qualities that human beings have had from the earliest times.
• attenuate - reduce the force, effect or value of.
• autochthones // autochthony -- [ancient greece] indigenous inhabitants of a country and those of their descendants who kept themselves free from an admixture of colonising entities.
• axiom -- a statement or proposition which is regarded as being established, accepted, or self-evidently true.

B

• boondoggle -- an unnecessary, wasteful, or fraudulent project.

C

• calque -- [linguistics] loan translation // word or phrase borrowed from another language by literal word-for-word or root-for-root translation.
• cathexis -- the concentration of mental energy on one particular person, idea, or object [especially to an unhealthy degree].
• cavilling -- to raise annoying or petty objections.
• chiasmus -- rhetorical device in which two or more clauses are balanced against each other by the reversal of their structures in order to produce an artistic effect.
• commensurable -- measurable by the same standard.
• commutation -- exchange // trade // replacement.
• concatenation -- a series of events, ideas or things that are connected.
• consecration -- the act or process of officially making something holy and able to be used for religious ceremonies.
• continuum -- something that changes in character gradually or in very slight stages without any clear dividing points.
• count noun -- [linguistics] a noun that can be modified by a quantity & can occur in both singular and plural forms as well as co-occur with quantificational determiners such as every, each, several, etc. in opposition to a mass noun [example: chair is a count noun, whereas furniture is a mass noun]. 

D

• delimitation -- the action of fixing the boundary or limits of something.
• demagogy -- the action or fact of winning support by exciting the emotions of ordinary people rather than by having good or morally right ideas.
• denaturalise -- strip of citizenship.
• diachronic -- concerned with the way in which something, especially language, has developed and evolved through time.
• disaggregation -- separation into component parts.
• discolourous -- [of leaves] having upper and lower surfaces of different colours.
• disjunctive -- lacking connection or consistency.

E

• endogenous -- having internal cause or origin. 
• episteme -- system of knowledge.
• eschatology -- the part of theology concerned with death, judgement + the final destiny of the soul // humankind. 
• etiological -- causing or contributing to the development of a disease or condition // serving to explain something by giving a cause of reason for it, often in historical or mythic terms. 
• eudaimonia -- the state or condition of good spirit, central concept in aristotelian ethics.
• exigency -- urgent need or demand. 
• exogenous -- having external cause or origin. 
• exoteric -- intended for or likely to be understood by the general population. 

F

• faux frais -- incidental operating expenses incurred in the productive investment of capital, which do not themselves add new value to output.
• fossick -- [aust.] to rummage or search // to search for gold or gemstones, typically by picking over abandoned workings.
• feuilleton -- [france] supplement attached to the political portion of french newspapers, consisting of non-political news and gossip, literature and art criticism, the latest fashions, etc.

G

• gestalt -- something [such as a structure or experience] that, when considered as a whole, has qualities that are more than the sum of its parts.
• gnomic -- expressed in the nature of short pithy maxims // difficult to understand because enigmatic or ambiguous.

H

• habitus -- [sociology] [bourdieu] the way that people perceive and respond to the social world they inhabit by way of their personal habits, skills, and disposition of character.
• hachures -- [cartography] short lines laid down in a pattern to indicate direction/steepness of slope.
• hermeneutics -- branch of knowledge that deals with interpretation, particularly biblical + literary texts.
• hetairism -- social system characterised by regarding women as common property // the practice of concubinage.
• heterodox -- contrary to or different from an acknowledged standard, a traditional form, or an established religion.
• heteronomy -- an action that is influenced by a force outside the individual // being ruled, governed, or under the sway of another. 
• heuristic -- enabling someone to learn or discover something by themselves.
• hypercathexis -- [freudian] excessive concentration of desire upon a particular object.
• hypotactic -- marked by the use of connecting words between clauses or sentences, explicitly showing the logical or other relationships between them [example: "i am tired because it is hot."]

I

• imbroglio -- an extremely confused, complicated, or embarrassing situation.
• individuation -- the manner in which a thing is identified as distinct from other things.
• instantiate -- to represent an abstraction by a concrete instance.
• integument -- something that covers or encloses, particularly an enveloping layer [skin membrane // cuticle] of an organism or one of its parts.
• interdict -- [noun] an authoritative prohibition, [verb] to prohibit or forbid.
• invidious -- likely to arouse or incur resentment or anger in others // unfairly discriminating or unjust.
• involution -- the state or quality of having many interrelated parts or aspects -or- a contraction // shrinking.
• isonomy -- the equality before the law of the citizens of a state // the equality of civil or political rights.

L

• lacuna -- unfilled space // gap.
• laïcité -- [france] separation of church and state.

M

• maginot line -- a line of concrete fortifications built by france in the 1930s to deter invasion by nazi germany and force them to move around the fortifications.
• manichean -- black and white // dualistic cosmology of struggle between good and evil.
• mendicant -- relying chiefly or exclusively on alms to survive.
• metaphysical -- relating to the part of philosophy that is about understanding existence and knowledge.
• modal -- of or relating to structure as opposed to substance.
• monad // monadic -- an indivisible, impenetrable unit of substance viewed as the basic constituent element of physical reality in the metaphysics of leibniz.
• morphological -- [biology] related to the scientific study of the structure and form of animals and plants.
• morphological -- [language] related to the study of the form of words and phrases.

N

• nomos -- [sociology] habit or custom of social and political behaviour that is socially constructed and historically specific.

O

• operationalization -- [research design] the process of defining the measurement of a phenomenon which is not directly measurable // defines a fuzzy concept so as to make it clearly distinguishable, measurable and understandable by empirical observation.

P

• palingenesis -- concept of rebirth or re-creation.
• panegyric -- [noun] a formal public speech or written verse, delivered in high praise of a person or a thing.
• panoply -- an extensive or impressive collection [in ancient greek -- a full suit of armour].
• paroxysm -- a sudden violent emotion or action.
• peripeteia -- a sudden reversal of fortune or change in circumstances. 
• perspicuous -- clearly expressed // easy to understand.
• phenomenology -- philosophical study of experience and consciousness.
• plenipotentiary -- having full power to take independent action.
• polysemic -- single sign with multiple meanings. 
• postulate -- [noun] an idea that is suggested or accepted as a basic principle before a further idea is formed or developed from it.
• praeteritio -- rhetorical term for the argumentative strategy of calling attention to a point by seeming to disregard it. virtually identical to apophasis and paralepsis.
• privation -- a lack of the basic things that are necessary for an acceptable standard of living.
• privative -- marked by the absence or loss of some quality or attribute that is normally present. 
• prosopopoeia -- rhetorical device in which a non-human element speaks or is spoken to as a human.

S

• saturnine -- cold and steady in mood // slow to act or change // of a gloomy or surly disposition.
• semiurgy -- the production of new meanings by the creation of new signs // the expansion of the semiosphere.
• sempiternal -- eternal and unchanging // everlasting.
• sinicize -- make chinese in character or form.
• sophistry -- the use of clever but false arguments in order to deceive.
• stochastic -- involving a random variable, chance, or probability. 
• subjectivism -- the doctrine that our own mental activity is the only unquestionable fact of our experience. there is no external or objective truth.
• sui generis -- in a class by itself // unique.
• sumptuary -- relating to personal expenditure, particularly to prevent extravagance + luxury // designed to regulate extravagant expenditures or habits, especially on moral or religious grounds [i.e. sumptuary laws].
• suzerainty -- the right of a country to partly control another.
• swale -- [landform] a shady spot, or a sunken or marshy place. artificial swales are often infiltration basins, designed to manage water runoff, filter pollutants, + increase rainwater infiltration.
• syllogism -- a kind of logical argument that applies deductive reasoning to arrive at a conclusion based on two propositions that are asserted or assumed to be true.

T

• teleology -- [philosophy] the explanation of phenomena in terms of the purpose they serve rather than the cause by which they arise.
• tendentious -- expressing or intending to promote a particular cause or point of view, especially a controversial one.
• torsion -- a twisting force // torturous and twisted shape or position.

V

• vitalism -- the philosophical doctrine that the phenomena of life cannot be explained in purely mechanical terms because there is something immaterial which distinguishes living matter from inanimate matter.

Z

• zozobra -- [spanish] word for existential anxiety and deep gloom // a mode of being that incessantly oscillates between two possibilities, between two affects, without knowing which one of those to depend on [emilio uranga, 1952].