Word of the Day: Parisology

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Parisology
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noun 1. The use of equivocal or ambiguous words.
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Play Button "The furniture assembly was complicated by the confusing diagrams and parisology in the instructions."
Play Button "The lawyer folded so much parisology into her argument, we could barely understand what she had said."
Play Button "My boss is often guilty of parisology — I try to follow his instructions, but sometimes they're too ambiguous to decipher."
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Greek, mid-19th century
Why This Word?
"Parisology" has nothing to do with Paris, France. In fact, the City of Light was named after the Parisii, a Gallic people who inhabited it early in its history. ...
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