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Consilience

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consilience
1840, from L. consilient-, prp. of *consilire "to jump together," from con- "together" + salire "to leap" (see salient).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Consilience is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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