/b/ - Random

Honestly I often see new words but I can't ever memorize them really because they're just another word for a thing I know.
I guess undulating or germinate.
>Undulating (adjective) describes something that moves, looks, or is shaped in a smooth, gentle, wavelike motion or form
From a book on Fourier transform
>To germinate means to begin to grow or develop

i save mine in a notepad
>Salience
Salience (also called saliency, from Latin saliō meaning "leap, spring") is the property by which some thing stands out.
>Irascibility
Very susceptible of anger; easily provoked or inflamed with resentment
>Calumnia
slander, libel, or false accusation
>Adulation
Servile flattery; excessive or unmerited praise; exaggerated compliment
>Amaranthine
Eternally beautiful and unfading; everlasting. Deep purple-red
>Sojourn
A short stay somewhere. A temporary residence.
>Metanoia
Derived from the Greek roots meta (change/after) and νοέω (to think/perceive), it literally translates to "to think again" or "afterthought." Modern definitions include a transformative change of heart and a spiritual conversion
>Anachronism
An artefact that belongs to another time; the state or condition of being chronologically out of place

>>325736
Oh yeah I've also heard sailence a lot a while back. For example, schizotypal people and schizophrenics often tend to have problems with sailence because of their dopamine levels, this is also how their paranoia works (ie they overvalue random signals)

>>325738
>Salient events are an attentional mechanism by which organisms learn and survive; those organisms can focus their limited perceptual and cognitive resources on the pertinent (that is, salient) subset of the sensory data available to them.
i saw someone describe schizos as having deep plunges of information that they can't pull their brains out of fast enough, almost like cliffs that their consciousness dives into & gets caught. whereas normal people have plunges that they don't get stuck inside of. i think it was shown to me in a kind of graph demonstration, and i don't know if it was even close to an accurate elucidation, but interesting nonetheless, and this made me think of that. overvaluing signals against their will. must be torture

>>325734
I have an excel spreadsheet full of hundreds of words I read that I didn't know or that I think sound nice. Recent additions:

Rankle
Sodality
Élan
Diffidence
Tawdry

>>325735
I find it's easier to remember if you think about their etymology. E.g. undulate has "und—" as the root, which means wave iirc. It's related to words like inundate and, more obviously, undulant. Not related to ululate at all, but looks similar.