Why this word is great
ALLUVION — [Noun] The gradual increase of land area on a shore or riverbank by the deposition of waterborne sediment. From the Latin alluviōn-, stem of alluviō ("an overflowing, flood"), from alluere ("to wash against"), from ad- ("to") + luere ("to wash"). Unlike "alluvium," which names the silt and gravel itself, or "inundation," which implies a violent, transient deluge, alluvion is the patient event of creation—the river’s silent alchemy of a new sandbar at dawn, the delta extending its finger into the sea grain by grain, and the slow reclamation of a continent by a retreating sea. It is the world building itself, one particle at a time, with glacial patience.