recrudesce |verb [ no obj. ] formal, break out again; recur. syphilis, until recently thought to be almost under control, is now recrudescing. DERIVATIVES recrudescence noun, recrudescent adjective ORIGIN late 19th cent.: back-formation from recrudescence‘recurrence’, from Latin recrudescere ‘become raw again’, from re- ‘again’ + crudus ‘raw’.

I’ve seen this before but I have never used it. I guess this is what you call dormant vocabulary.

aposiopesis noun (pl.aposiopeses[ mass noun ] Rhetoric: the device of suddenly breaking off in speech. in coping with the unsaid and unsayable, oral history is impelled towards aposiopesis. DERIVATIVES aposiopetic, adjective. ORIGIN late 16th cent.: via Latin from Greek aposiōpēsis, from aposiōpan ‘be silent’.

I really like this one. I can use it. Now,here’s one of my favourite words and i use it a lot but I love to look it up…..

lagniappe noun, N. Amer. something given as a bonus or gratuity. ORIGIN Louisiana French, from Spanish la ñapa .

As I remember it, lagniappe was sort of like a baker’s dozen (aka thirteen), a bonus, but more unexpected and therefore more fun than the baker’s gratuity.

hiragana noun [ mass noun ] the more cursive form of kana (syllabic writing) used in Japanese, primarily used for function words and inflections. Compare with katakana. ORIGIN Japanese, ‘plain kana’.

I didn’t think this one would be in the online dictionary. How can I compare it? I don’t know anything. Btu I learned a lovely Japanese word for a habit of book-owner-readers (and this word is not in the online dictiionary).

tsundaku noun : It’s unread books in an owner’s library. I can’t find the clipping I saved about it but this is what I remember. I’m not the only one who has books in my library that I haven’t read - yet. I intend to, and I do get around to most of them Others send me vibes, though, and I’m glad I have them. I had one friend who used to say that buying and owning the book was almost like reading it. What do you think?

Clearing my Paper Desk I came across lots of scraps of paper each with one or two words printed on them for me to look up either to learn or to remind. I have to pedal soon so I’d better get at them.

cyan noun: a greenish-blue colour which is one of the primary subtractive colours, complementary to red. ORIGIN late 19th cent.: from Greek kuaneos ‘dark blue’.

I was just this morning listing all the words for different shades of blue (as I was swimming, so no books or paper handy), but I never thought of this one because I didn’t know it. Learn something every day.

lenticular adjective 1 shaped like a lentil, especially by being biconvex: lenticular lenses. 2 relating to the lens of the eye. ORIGIN late Middle English: from Latin lenticularis, from lenticula, diminutive of lens, lent- ‘lentil’.

bast noun (also bast fibre) [ mass noun ] fibrous material from a plant, in particular the inner bark of a tree such as the lime, used as fibre in matting, cord, etc. • Botany the phloem or vascular tissue of a plant. ORIGIN Old English bæst; related to Dutch bast,German Bast; of unknown origin.

I put a note beside my word, that is was a shoe - so, a shoe made of bast or fibre. Where did I read it?

oneiric adjective formal, relating to dreams or dreaming. ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: from Greek oneiros ‘dream’ + -ic.

This is such a nice one, why didn’t I remember it?

synaesthesia noun [ mass noun ] Physiology & Psychology, the production of a sense impression relating to one sense or part of the body by stimulation of another sense or part of the body. DERIVATIVES synaesthete |sɪnˈiːsθiːt, -ˈɛs-| noun synaesthetic |-ˈθɛtɪk| adjective ORIGIN late 19th cent.: modern Latin, from syn-‘with’, on the pattern of anaesthesia.

When the dental hieigenist (so-called) starts scraping my plaque, my nose gets itchy. Is that synaesthesia?

That’s all for now.