- anodyne. (adj.) not likely to provoke dissent or offense; inoffensive, often deliberately so. (n.) a painkilling drug or medicine.
- atavistic. (adj.) relating to or characterized by reversion to something ancient or ancestral.
- emic. (anth.) relating to or denoting an approach to the study or description of a particular language or culture in terms of its internal elements and their functioning rather than in terms of any existing external framework.
- haptic. (adj.) relating to the sense of touch, in particular relating to the perception and manipulation of objects using the senses of touch and proprioception.
- heuristic. (adj.) serving to indicate or point out; stimulating interest as a means of furthering investigation; encouraging a person to learn, discover, understand, or solve problems independently, as by experiment, evaluating possible answers or solutions, or by trial and error.
- hex. (n.) a magic spell; a curse. (v.) cast a spell on; bewitch.
- neoteric. (adj.) belonging to a new fashion or trend; modern.
- offal. (n.) the entrails and internal organs of an animal used as food; refuse or waste material; decomposing animal flesh.
- protean. (adj.) tending or able to change frequently or easily; able to do many different things; ever-changing, variable, versatile.
- sous rature. (phil.) strategic philosophical device originally developed by martin heidegger. usually translated as ‘under erasure’, it involves the crossing out of a word within a text, but allowing it to remain legible and in place. used extensively by jacques derrida, it signifies that a word is “inadequate yet necessary”; that a particular signifier is not wholly suitable for the concept it represents, but must be used as the constraints of our language offer nothing better.
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