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A list of my favorite words

• acrostic
• affordance
• baleful
• bindle
• disembogue
• disembosom
• faff
• hototogisu (Japanese for cuckoo, frequently used in haiku)
• lower
• lacunae
• orthogonal
• ouroboros
• oubliette
• palimpsest
• rebus
• shibboleth
• trapezium (which should mean the room in which one keeps one's trapeze)

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