Word of the Day – Epexegesis

• Noun: Epexegesis — Adverb: Epexegetically
  1. additional explanation or explanatory matter
• Synonyms:
  1. annotation
  2. comment
  3. commentary
  4. gloss
• Usage:

“’For example, there’s a trick that nearly every writer uses, of inserting at least one long, obscure word into each story. This makes the reader think that the man is very wise and clever. So I have the machine do the same thing. There’ll be a whole stack of long words stored just this purpose.

‘Where?’

‘In the word-memory section,’ he said, epexegetically.

• Encountered:
  1. While reading the short story, The Great Automatic Grammatizator by Ronald Dahl.

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