solatia
ʃi noun, plural so·la·ti·a 
[-shee-uh] .
[-shee-uh] . 1.
something given in compensation for inconvenience, loss, injury, or the like; recompense.
2.
Law. damages awarded to a plaintiff as compensation for personal suffering or grief arising from an injury.
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| —n , pl -tia | |
| chiefly (US), (Scot) law compensation awarded to a party for injury to the feelings as distinct from physical suffering and pecuniary loss | |
| [C19: from Latin: see | |
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Solatia
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
| 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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