(n.) A figure in which the speaker professes to be at a loss what course to pursue, where to begin to end, what to say, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) "It encodes the aporias of heterosexual relationships, offers a fantasy for overcoming these aporias, and functions as a self-help sexual manual.
(2) In practice, attempts by the "users" of such texts to find solutions inexorably lead to aporias.
(3) In James's case, the storyline of Fifty Shades "stages many of the aporias of the sexual relationships between men and women", she believes, with the sadomasochistic relationship at its heart "both a symbolic solution for and a practical technique to overcome these aporias".
(4) Changes in protein metabolism in the hemolymph, fat body, intestine, and gonads of Aporia crataegi L. caterpilars under the influence of nuclear polyhedrosis virus were studied.
Malapropism
Definition:
(n.) A grotesque misuse of a word; a word so used.
Example Sentences:
(1) My mum, Olwen, was a bright and talkative woman who loved a gossip and a story, and was given slightly to malapropisms.
(2) Her Mrs Malaprop in Belgrade Theatre's touring production of Sheridan's The Rivals was hailed as "the play's vociferous focal point".
(3) In some patients, the combinative ambiguity or malapropism expresses the fear of reprisal through the transformation into a self-inflicted injury.
(4) The point is malapropisms and mispronunciations are fairly common.