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More words to slake anyone's gullet.


Lacquer: varnish that dries via evaporation
Revenant: specter, ghost, one who returns after a long absence
Millennium: one thousand years, period of a thousand years
Coquelicot: plant, red poppy
Tacenda: things to not be mentioned or things to be passed over in silence
Diaphanous: light, delicate, gossamer, translucent
Candelabra: pl. branched candlestick with several candles
Aeonian: continuing forever, eternal
Chevelure: head of hair, hair on the head, tresses, a nebulous envelop(as around a comet)
Dyslexia: disorder in which lexical figures are perceived in a chaotic order
Ozymandian: typified by great hubris or greed met with tragic destruction through vanity
Nacreous: iridescent, pearly, like mother-of-pearl or nacre
Quiddity: the real nature of a thing, the essence, quibble, eccentricity, trifling quirk
Mephitic: poisonous, noxious, lethally dangerous, insidious, toxic, putrid
Contretemps: inopportune or embarrassing occurrence or situation, dispute, argument
Eidolon: ghost, specter, revenant, reappearing, continuously visiting or persisting image
Aura: distinctive and pervasive quality or character, air, atmosphere, emanation
Xenoglossy: language learned spontaneously and without prior knowledge
Choreography: the art of creating and arranging dances or ballets
Novitiate: novice, the living place of a novice, the state of being a novice, neophyte
Doppelganger: double of a living person, especially one that haunts its counterpart

Lothario: man who seduces women, incubus, rake, roué

Maraschino: cordial made from the fermented juice of the marasca cherry

Interrobang: punctuation that is a question mark superimposed on an exclamation point 

Propaedeutic: needed as preparation for learning, study, or understanding

Magnesium: light, silvery-white, moderately hard metallic element 

Somnolent: drowsy, sleepy, inducing or tending to induce sleep, soporific 

Aphotic: devoid of light, especially of areas where no light naturally occurs

Nosism: the use of we in speaking of oneself, the act of speaking of oneself as multiples

Eschew: to avoid, shun, dispense with, abstain

Absinthe: wormwood liquor of a bright-green color

Gnosis: esoteric knowledge of spiritual truth, complex and thinly distributed knowledge

Pyre: heap of combustibles for burning a corpse as a funeral rite, heap of combustibles

Exorbitant: greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation, excessive, expensive

Omnibus: of, regarding, or giving many things or classes, having or including many items

Trillium: type of flower

Penumbra: partial shadow, space of partial illumination

Lagniappe: gift for extended patronage, gift or compensation for valued customers

Videlicet: to wit, that is, namely

Gaffe: clumsy social error, a faux pas, blunder, social miscommunication

Asymptote: line whose distance to a given curve tends to zero 

Cynophilist: dog-lover, one who loves or appreciates dogs

Bouleversement: reversal of fortunes, overturning, tumult

Sforzando: music, suddenly or strongly accented

Peccavi: admission of guilt or confession

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Ganked "xenodochial" from a certain series of books, in which the definition was described(paraphrased) "the habit of giving gifts to strangers", I wasn't a huge fan of the definition, but of the series, I loved it.


Belladonna: poisonous plant
Facsimile: copy or reproduction of an item, typically a book
Mannequin: articulated human figure used for design
Caliginous: misty, dim, obscure, dark, gloomy, tenebrous
Helix: a spiral
Incarnadine: pinkish, flesh-colored, blood-red
Elusive: difficult to find, catch, or achieve
Murmur: low, indistinct, continuous sound, to utter such a sound
Symbiosis: mutual biological synergy between two dissimilar organisms
Circuitous: having a circular or winding course, indirect, roundabout
Swerve: to abruptly turn or deviate from an otherwise straight course
Liquid: a state of matter, compare gas and solid, readiness to flow, type of sound
Vociferous: loud, stentorian, vehement, angrily impassioned
Aerial: of, in, or caused by the air, existing or living in the air
Hue: gradation or variety of a color
Vestigial: of, relating to, or constituting a vestige(trace, mark, or sign left by something)
Cursive: flowing, effusive, wavy, type on handwriting in English
Mauve: pinkish purple
Colloquial: informal, as in speech, conversationally informal
Echolalia: immediate and involuntary repetition of words or phrases just spoken by others
Incisive: penetrating, clear, and sharp, as in operation or expression
Caress: touch or stroke lightly in a loving or endearing manner
Incunabula: pl. book printed before 1501
Mica: thin layers of specific, transparent minerals
Xenodochial: friendly or especially kind to strangers or foreigners
Tourmaline: multifarious gemstone of grossly differing colors
Syllable: unit of spoken language consisting of a single uninterrupted sound
Dapple: a spot or mottled marking, usually occurring in clusters, different tones and hues
Sommelier: a waiter expertly trained in alcoholic beverages, wine steward
Prismatic: refractive light of a spectrum, brilliantly colored
Layer: single thickness of a material covering a surface
Luscious: delicious, sexy, cloying
Sotto voce: soft-voiced, emphasis on quiet speech
Vanilla: ordinary, conventional, flavored with vanilla, flavor extracted from vanilla bean
Medley: heterogeneous mixture of typically complementing elements
Cicada: loud, locust-like insect that chirrups
Aphotic: devoid of light, especially of areas where no light naturally occurs
Burnish: to polish, the shine of a polished surface
Rapture: ecstasy
Craquelure: fine pattern of dense cracking formed on the surface of paintings
Maquette: scale model of a large item
Phantasm: something apparently seen but having no physical reality, illusion
Cedilla: diacritic beneath word to alter pronunciation “façade”
Oscillate: to swing in an uninterrupted motion
Ambivalence: simultaneous, conflicted feelings towards a thing, person, etc