Fun with Words

Afficionados of lexicons, linguistics, and all things literary, here I am with another edition of Fun with Words. This is the first post of which I can recall in which the first sentence was architected to use a power-of-three featuring three words that begin with "l" (lexicon, linguistics, literary). In any case, I have saved a few words in my notes -- nestled between "Crane: thought it was a dinosaur" and "surprisal embeddings" in my TODO list [^1] -- to feature in this post.

Here are the words for today:

• Sans: Without.
• Artificer: A skilled craftsperson.
• Eludidate: Explain, with the purpose of making something clear.
• Deuteragonist: The second most important character in a story.
• Corpora: A collection of texts. This collection may be grouped by a theme, such as articles written by a single author, published by a specific publication, or articles relating to a given subject matter.

[^1]: My TODO list takes the form of both tasks, notes, and words for this series. I need to sort out the list to move some notes from my recent foray into quantitative linguistics and into another document.