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Apophasis - the raising of an issue by claiming not to mention it.

Steganography - the art or practice of concealing a message, image, or file within another message, image, or file. ( This word was resurrected after being in disuse for almost 150 years as it was labeled and archaic synonym of cryptography, but was brought back to life in the 1980s as a word for digital cryptography.)

Glabrous - smooth, especially : having a surface without hairs or projections. "Before them an old man/wearing a fringe of long white hair, bareheaded,/glabrous skull reflecting the sun's/light..." - William Carlos William "Sunday in the Park."

Divarication - 1: the action, process, or fact of spreading apart 2: a divergence of opinion

Prevaricate -to deviate from the truth

Barbican - an outer defensive work; especially : a tower at a gate or bridge. (Theorized that the ultimate ancestor of barbican might come from the Persian phrase meaning "house on the wall," but this has never been proven.

Paparazzo - a freelance photographer who aggresively pursues celebrities for the purpose of taking candid photographs. (We are all familiar with the plural paparazzi. What's interesting here is that the word first appeared in Federico Fellini's 1959 film La Dolce Vita. Fellini says the name was taken from an opera liberetto. Paparazzo was also the name of a hotelkeeper in George Gissing's 1901 travel memoir By the Ionian Sea. Some have noted that in the dialect of Ennio Flaiano, who cowrote the script for La Dolve Vita with Fellini, paparazzo refers to a kind of clam that frequently snaps its shell open and shut, which may have reminded Flaiano of the action of a camera shutter.

Cotton - 1: to take a liking - used with "to". 2: to come to understand - used with "to" or "on to". ( The noun "cotton" first appeared in English 700 years ago. It comes via Anglo-French and Old Italian, from qutun, the Arabic word for cotton. Then in the 15th century it became a verb. First verb sense was "to form a nap on (cloth)" and is now obsolete. Cloth with a nap was preferred by milliners, who sometimes used the phrase "cotton well" when all hast materials came together nicely and resulted in a good hat. Might be the source of the 17th century expression "to cotton well," meaning "to get along together, to agree," form which evolved our sense of
"take to." The "understand" sense is much newer, first appearing in the early 20th century.

Metadata - data that provides information about other data. (Meta means transcending. First used with physics, "metaphysics." It has since been applied to other disciplines, "metapsychology" and "metamathematics." Metadata takes the "transcending" aspect a step further, applying the concept of pure information instead of discipline. First appeared in print in 1983 although the word data can be traced to middle of the 17th century.

Vituperate - 1: to abuse or censure severely or abusively : to berate 2: to use harsh condemnatory language.