The word of the day is gelignite:
"'"Censored" is a strong word,' the librarian said.
"'Yes. It's the correct word,' Brand remarked. ''Cause there's a lot of scatological and puerile language. "Scatological" means "of the body." So muck, snot, poo, that kind of stuff. But I like to use those kinds of ideas as gelignite to detonate new territories for thought. What about that? "Gelignite": an explosive thing. "Detonate": the process of explosion.'"
- Michael Schulman, "Follow the leader", 15 December 2014 The New Yorker
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