Vico

Vi·co

[vik-oh, vee-koh; Italian vee-kaw]
noun
Gio·van·ni Bat·tis·ta [jaw-vahn-nee baht-tees-tah] , 1668–1744, Italian philosopher and jurist.

Vi·co·ni·an [vi-koh-nee-uhn] , adjective
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Vico (ˈvɪkəʊ, Italian ˈviːko) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
Giovanni Battista (dʒoˈvanni batˈtista). 1668--1744, Italian philosopher. In Scienza Nuova (1721) he postulated that civilizations rise and fall in evolutionary cycles, making use of myths, poetry, and linguistics as historical evidence

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Vico is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
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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