What is your favorite word learned during your academic career?

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I’m curious about words you otherwise may not have learned if not for your career in academia. My favorite in my career so far is couch (verb). Honorable mention to ansatz.

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  1. boz_bozeman Avatar

    Scrofula or dropsy

  2. TheTopNacho Avatar

    Dissilced senctolic stem cells.

  3. mwmandorla Avatar

    Anthroposols. Imbricated.

  4. one_hender Avatar

    Heteroskedasticity

  5. measurementinvar Avatar

    Autochthonous and allochthonous

  6. tongmengjia Avatar

    Conceptually: reify.

    Etymologically: shibboleth.

    Phonetically: Avalokiteshvara.

  7. tegeus-Cromis_2000 Avatar

    Sprezzatura

    Pentimento

    Amphibology

  8. TheHandofDoge Avatar

    The subaltern quotidian.