A WORD A WEEK

One of the New Year resolutions (and probably the only one I have kept) is learning a word each week. When finding a blank piece of anything to write them on and have them on me at any time, the answer presented itself when purchase of a diary/organizer has been made. After deciding on a place where they will be written, above the small box that bares the name of 'special note'. Well that cannot remain empty, no. It is a 'Special Note', so I have decided to input there a 'Thought of the Week'.

We are in the week 16 so far in the year 2012, and these are the words I've collected.

WORDS      

• Sledding - a ride on a sled (although, the meaning of this word I wrote in Serbian)
• Flaneur -  The term flâneur comes from the French masculine noun flâneur—which has the basic meanings of "stroller", "lounger", "saunterer", "loafer"—which itself comes from the French verb flâner, which means "to stroll". Charles Baudelaire developed a derived meaning of flâneur—that of "a person who walks the city in order to experience it.  While Baudelaire characterized the flâneur as a "gentleman stroller of city streets",he saw the flâneur as having a key role in understanding, participating in and portraying the city. A flâneur thus played a double role in city life and in theory, that is, while remaining a detached observer. David Harvey asserts that "Baudelaire would be torn the rest of his life between the stances offlâneur and dandy, a disengaged and cynical voyeur on the one hand, and man of the people who enters into the life of his subjects with passion on the other".
• Sagacity-  Ability to make good judgements. Latin sagacitas meaning ''wisdom'' deprived from sagaci meaning wise. Also used in 17c. and 18c . of animals, meaning 'acute sense of smell.'
• Alais- Also Known As
• Frenzy-  Wild excitement. In medical/pathological sense means violent mental derangement.  
• Resurgam - Latin- ''I shall rise again.'' A name given to one of the first submarines, which never had a chance to resurface, ironically. 
• Raison d'etre- French- a reason of existence.
• Apathy- a state of indifference. Suppression of emotion.
• Illecebrous-  alluring, attractive, enticing.
• Anacampserote- Something that can bring back a lost love. 
• Ambrosia- Food of the Gods often depicted as conferring ageless immortality upon whomever consumed it. It was brought to the gods in Olympus by doves, so it may have been thought of in the Homeric tradition as a kind of divine exhalation of the Earth. Ambrosia is very closely related to the gods' other form of sustenance, nectar. The two terms may not have originally been distinguished; though in Homer's poems nectar is usually the drink and ambrosia the food of the gods.
• Adonis- a handsome youth in Greek Mythology loved by Aphrodite. 
• Avant garde-   The term is used in English as a noun or adjective to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics. Avant-garde represents a pushing of the boundaries of what is accepted as the norm or the status quo, primarily in the cultural realm. The notion of the existence of the avant-garde is considered by some to be a hallmark of modernism, as distinct from postmodernism. Many artists have aligned themselves with the avant-garde movement and still continue to do so. The term was originally used to describe the foremost part of an army advancing into battle.
• Billet doux - A love letter. ''Young lovers in Victorian England, forbidden to express their affection in public and fearful that strict parents would intercept their billets-doux, sent coded messages through the personal columns in newspapers.''
• Grandeur- Splendour and impressiveness