Vocabulary pop quiz

Psych! It's not a pop quiz. You're not expected to know these words. And if you do know them then that could mean that you might be a little bit weird. These words were used by someone writing online who talks funny. And if you use them in everyday speech then you'll certainly alienate yourself.

One word cannot even be looked up. "Mamet principle." And I still have no idea what the author meant, probably Ed Driscoll at Instapundit. It sounds like his kind of word. I think he wrote "you cannot even apply the Mamet principle," but I could be wrong. And how in the world is anyone supposed to even know what the guy means?  I got so angry, ew, I got so angry I threw that card in the trash.

* anomie: a state of individuals or society characterized by a breakdown or absence of social norms and values, as in the case of uprooted people.

* autonepiophilia: A very useful word that describes America’s political left. A sexual fetish in which the participant role-plays regression to an infant-like state by drinking from a baby bottle, sleeping in an oversized crib, playing in a playpen and wearing diapers. The activities have overtones that range from gentle and nurturing experiences—those who engage in banal infantilistic play are known as adult babies—to those with dark, sadomasochistic content. Not all adult babies are diaper fetishists, whose sexuoeroticism hinges on wearing diapers (covered in urine and feces). Those who do are termed adult baby/diaper lovers (AB/DL)

* Bletchley Park: The central site for British codebreakers during World War II. It housed the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS), which regularly penetrated the secret communications of the Axis Powers – most importantly the German Enigma and Lorenz ciphers.

* Brandolini’s Bullshit Asymmetry Principle. The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.

* bricked: an electronic device such as a smartphone, game console, router, or tablet computer that, due to a serious misconfiguration, corrupted firmware, or a hardware problem, can no longer function, hence, is as technologically useful as a brick.

* Cab Sauv: Cabernet Sauvignon.

Some walls are meant to keep people in. Some walls are meant to keep people out. Some walls can be broken down with solid therapy and two glasses of Cab Sauv.

* colophon:  A brief statement containing information about the publication of a book such as the place of publication, the publisher, and the date of publication.

* crepitation: A dry, crackling sound or sensation; see crepitant rale.
A sound like that produced by the grating of the ends of a fractured bone.

* crossfade: get drunk and high at the same time.

* cumulo-granite: pilot jargon, clouds with rocks in it, like a mountain. The land obscured by clouds.

* Hebephilia: The strong, persistent sexual interest by adults in pubescent children, typically ages 11–14.

Those who say they “just didn’t know what was going on in the realm of illegal and immoral sexual shenanigans” in Hollywood or New York are…. How can  put this politely? ….. are lying out of both sides of their pedophiliac / hebephiliac asses.

* infarcted: Tissue death due to inadequate blood supply to the affected area.

The show American Horror Story will use election night 2016 as the horror, dread, and existential panic in every liberal's and NeverTrumper's permanently-infarcted hearts.

* kismet: fate

* kiviak: A traditional wintertime Inuit food from Greenland that is made of auks fermented in a seal skin.

This is gonna be sweet. Its like waiting for christmas. For Christmas, you get a large serving of kiviak. Enjoy!

* lavalier: An item of jewelry consisting of a pendant, sometimes with one stone, suspended from a necklace.

In journalism, a microphone.

* longueurs: A dull and tedious portion (as of a book) —usually used in plural.

* Malleus Malificarum: (whatever it is, it sounds badly bad) Hammer of witches. The best known and the most important treatise on witchcraft.

* manubrium: The uppermost portion of the sternum; called also manubrium sterni.

Also: The largest process of the malleus, giving attachment to the tendon of the tensor muscle of the tympanum; called also manubrium mallei. (bone in the ear)

* metathesis: The transposition of sounds or letters in a word. 2. a readtion in which two compounds exchange ions, typically with precipitation of an insoluble product.

* Misorussic: Miss Russia

* modified limited hangout: Spy jargon. When secrecy is blown and the cover story can no longer be relied upon then offer partial truth as distraction. The public is usually so intrigued with the new information that it doesn’t think to pursue the matter further.

As if.

Nixon:

PRESIDENT: You think, you think we want to, want to go this route now? And the — let it hang out, so to speak?
DEAN: Well, it's, it isn't really that —
HALDEMAN: It's a limited hang out.
DEAN: It's a limited hang out.
EHRLICHMAN: It's a modified limited hang out.
PRESIDENT: Well, it's only the questions of the thing hanging out publicly or privately.

* momzer: "contemptible person, moocher," 1560s, from Hebrew, literally "bastard" (used in Vulgate), but modern usage is a recent borrowing from Yiddish.

Fat bastard should be suspended from a meat hook for taking the opera and Philharmonic to North Korea as a show of good will. Stooge. Perv. Momzer.

* nisbe: (grammar) A derived adjective, formed from a noun, principally used when describing the Egyptian and Arabic languages.

* orthography: The conventional spelling system of a language.

* Pelagianism:  The belief that original sin did not taint human nature and that mortal will is still capable of choosing good or evil without special divine aid. This theological theory is named after the British monk Pelagius (354–420 or 440), although he denied, at least at some point in his life, many of the doctrines associated with his name. Pelagius was identified as an Irishman by Saint Jerome.[1] Pelagius taught that the human will, as created with its abilities by God, was sufficient to live a sinless life, although he believed that God's grace assisted every good work. Pelagianism has come to be identified with the view (whether taught by Pelagius or not) that human beings can earn salvation by their own efforts.

* Phonology: A branch of linguistics concerned with the systematic organization of sounds in languages. It has traditionally focused largely on the study of the systems of phonemes in particular languages (and therefore used to be also called phonemics, or phonematics), but it may also cover any linguistic analysis either at a level beneath the word (including syllable, onset and rime, articulatory gestures, articulatory features, mora, etc.) or at all levels of language where sound is considered to be structured for conveying linguistic meaning.

* PIAPS: pig in a pantsuit.

* plenary: Complete in every respect :  absolute, unqualified plenary power. Fully attended or constituted by all entitled to be present a plenary session.

* praxis: The process by which a theory, lesson, or skill is enacted, embodied, or realized.

They are more likely to have a functional understanding of American praxis, than the masses of ill-educated, adult juveniles, now being mass produced by U.S. education facilities.

* protean: Able to change shape

* relict: Ecology, an organism or species of an earlier time surviving in an environment that has undergone considerable change. Something that has survived; a remnant. A widow.

* spergs: Asperger. Even spergs like Cowen want to believe in the prevailing orthodoxy.

* Suplex: A wrestling hold in which a wrestler grasps his opponent around the waist from behind and carries him backward. A wrestling move in which the wrestler picks up his or her opponent off the ground (or mat) and then, using a large portion of his or her own body weight, drives the opponent down on the mat by throwing them over their center of gravity, usually arching their back.

* toponym: A place name. A name derived from the name of a place.

* vocative: The vocative case (abbreviated voc) is the case used for a noun that identifies a person (animal, object etc.) being addressed or occasionally the determiners of that noun. A vocative expression is an expression of direct address by which the identity of the party spoken to is set forth expressly within a sentence. For example, in the sentence "I don't know, John," John is a vocative expression that indicates the party being addressed, as opposed to the sentence "I don't know John" in which "John" is the direct object of the verb "know."

Allen gives a vocative example for Gods and kings and one for regular nouns but does not explain the differences in the syntax. Also, he does not indicate if the interjection hA is required or optional in either example.

* walk back the cat: spy slang for retracing the train of evidence and assumptions until the double agent, the false source or the analytic error is identified.

* zugzwang: German for "compulsion to move,” a situation found in chess and other games wherein one player is put at a disadvantage because they must make a move when they would prefer to pass and not move. The fact that the player is compelled to move means that their position will become significantly weaker. A player is said to be "in zugzwang" when any possible move will worsen their position

* Zwieback: A form of rusk eaten in Scandinavia, Germany, Austria, France, Switzerland, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria and Greece. It is a type of crisp, sweetened bread, made with eggs and baked twice.

Reaction against Ovitz was swift and terrible with threats of never eating even a Swieback in Hollywood again, as well as having valet parking privileges suspended for life.