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"The first language humans had was gestures. There was nothing primitive about this language that flowed from people’s hands, nothing we say now that could not be said in the endless array of movements possible with the fine bones of the fingers and wrists."

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listography GIVE MEMORIES
TERMS
FAVORITE LISTOGRAPHY MENTIONS
IMPORTANT NOTICES
MESSAGES
  • avoir le cafard (French) - to be so bored you become enveloped in depression
  • brontide - the low rumbling of distant thunder.
  • chatoyant - a chatoyant stone or gemstone, such as the cat's-eye
  • colossal - extremely large
  • esoteric - understood by or meant for only the select few who have special knowledge or interest
  • frenetic - frantic; frenzied
  • l’esprit de escalier (French) - The feeling you get after leaving a conversation, when you think of all the things you should have said.
  • notion - a general understanding
  • perpetual - continuing or enduring forever
  • petrichor - the smell of rain on dry ground; the pleasant smell of rain after a dry spell.
  • plethora - overabundance; excess
  • sabaism - the worship of stars or the spirits in them.
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