Uxorial: of a wife, relating to, involving, or characteristic of a wife
Lithium: silvery, soft, highly-reactive metal
Witzelsucht: excessive facetiousness and inappropriate or pointless humor, the disorder
Glyph: a sigil or specific insignia, a letter of language, an arcane mark
Kaleidoscope: optical item that utilizes mirrors to create interior symmetrical visions
Infinity: quality or condition of being infinite, unbounded space, time, or quantity
Quicquidlibet: whatever one pleases, anything whatsoever, typified by absolute volition
Troglodyte: hermit, recluse, person considered to be reclusive, out of date, or brutish
Cenobite: member of a convent or other religious community, cloistered person
Phrontistery: athenaeum, establishment for study, thinking, and/or learning
Recidivism: act of repeating punished act, chronic tendency to repeat crimes
Bacchante: female bacchant, carousing woman, priestess or woman votary of Bacchus
Coracle: small rounded boat made of waterproof material stretched over a frame
Oxydactyl: having slender, tapered digits or fingers
Valetudinarian: sickly or weak person, hypochondriac
Zenzezenzizenzic: the eighth power of a number
Clairvoyant: having the “power” to see things that can’t be perceived by the senses
Excogitate: to contemplate with diligence and care to obtain intuitive grasp thereof
Discotheque: nightclub that features dancing to recorded or live music
Vicarious: performed, exercised, received, or suffered in place of another
Maugre: in spite of, notwithstanding
Baroque: of, relating to, or like of a style in art and architecture of a time
Telefacsimile: a fax machine, a document sent over a telephone line
Luddite: person who fears or loathes technology, person opposed to technology
Cathismata: pl. one of the 20 divisions in a Greek Psalter
Quoddamodotative: existing or behaving in a certain manner
Prismatic: refractive light of a spectrum, brilliantly colored
Contagion: disease that is or may be transmitted by direct or indirect contact, epidemic
Immure: to enclose with walls, ensconce
Ennui: listlessness, weariness, discontent
Pluterperfect: beyond perfect or perfection, more than perfect
Clarion: medieval trumpet with clear shrill tones, clear and shrill, loud burst of sound
Sardonyx: type of stone(onyx) with sandy bands
Rastaquouere: social climber, social upstart, man of finished and polished manners
Thymoleptic: psychologically energizing, drug designed to reverse depression
Gravamen: the material, basis, or significant part of a grievance or complaint
Acropolis: fortified height or citadel, raised area holding a building or cluster of buildings
Cosmopolitan: pertaining to the world at large, without localized prejudices
Permeate: to pervade, to spread or flow throughout, to diffuse through
Symbiosis: mutual biological synergy between two dissimilar organisms
Escamotage: juggling, hand trickery, sleight of hand, legerdemain
Terpsichorean: pertaining, relating to, or referring to dancing or the art thereof
Haecceity: property that uniquely identifies an object, compare quiddity
Zingaro: a gypsy, an Italian gypsy, mendicant, beggar, vagabond
Thylacine: Extinct Tasmanian Tiger
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