Heuristic: encouraging a person to learn, discover, understand or solve problems on his or her own.
Man, reading stuff from the 1830s has really improved my vocabulary. I've been reading things like the 1839 "Report on Indian Affairs" by J.B.Macaulay. (According to our prof., this will make us forty people join a group of about maybe forty other living people in the entire world who have ever actually bothered to read this 89 page document in full).
This man is Friederich Engels. He is one of the fathers of Communist thought. He is also from the 1800s. They knew how to grow glorious beards back then.
Macaulay uses words like "turpitude", which means "Inherent baseness or depravity; corruptness or evilness." Other recent searches of my dictionary.com application are "expostulate" ("to reason earnestly with someone against something that person intends to do or has done"), "solicitude" ("the state of being anxious or concerned; an attitude expressing excessive attentiveness"), "reify" ("to convert into or regard as a concrete thing") and "annus mirabilis" (a latin phrased used in English meaning "year of wonders; wonderful year").
Have you guys run across any neat-o words recently?
On another note, I've finally started to watch Due South recently. I know it's a classic television show... and is pretty much the only Canadian TV show that's famous in Europe and the rest of the world. And come on, who can blame them? Mounties are adorable and stalwart and all of those good things.
