Unusual and Literary English Vocabulary

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• Simony n crime purchasing sacraments holy offices dubliners
• Tottie n girlfriend mahony mentioned lightly totties dubliners
• Cretonne n heavy fabric upholstery curtains head leaned
• Toreador n/adj bullfighter rearranged light waterproof slung shoulder
• Adroitness n cleverness skill people considered lenehan leech
• Slavey n maidservant menial work walk round canal
• Lothario i n man behaves selfishly sexual relationships
• Slatternly adj woman dirty untidy characteristic slut paused
• Gentility n social superiority demonstrated genteel manners appearances
• Necessitous adj person lacking necessities life friend shabby
• Roister v enjoy oneself celebrate noisy boisterous picked
• Equipoise n state balance forces interests balancing adventure
• Barmbracks n irish halloween tradition cakes symbolic objects
• Saturnine adj gloomy person dark moody mysterious mr
• Astrakhan n fleece karakul lambs asia dark curly
• Asked impresario n person organizes manages concerts plays
• Shoneen n perjorative irish person excessively british attitude
• Kowtow v act excessively subservient manner chinese custom
• Spondulics n money cash british slang dubliners ivy
• Goster irish slang n gossip i asked leaning
• Hob n flat metal shelf side back fireplace
• Charmeuse n soft silky fabric dresses mrs kearney
• Distend v swell outward pressure inside ring onlookers
• Indite v write compose constable moved head slowly
• Ulster n man's long loose overcoat rough cloth
• Gaiters n cloth garment similar leggings covering ankle
• M'coy valise n small traveling bag suitcase short
• Omadhaun n fool irish supposed—they know—to place depot
• Boyo n boy man form address  have influence
• Oxter n armpit good man penny-a-week school sod
• Mr penny-a-week sententious adj moralizing pompous affected manner
• Lugubrious church adj sounding sad dismal excessively mournful
• Quincunx unsuccessfully n arrangement objects dice mr m'coy
• Surplice white n loose linen vestment worn cassock
• Palaver n unnecessary prolonged idle discussion o gabriel
• Deprecate v express strong disapproval esp oneself o
• Solicitude n care concern esp excessive gretta gabriel
• Viand n item food top closed square piano
• Tumid adj part body swollen language style pompous
• Imprecation n spoken curse persons follow music mary
• Sally spirit n witty lively remark esp made
• I invidious adj comparison distinction unfairly discriminating unjust
• Heliotrope n light purple color flower type borage
• Diffident adj modest shy lack self-confidence fallen easily
• Quid financial position brit slang n pound wrong
• Bart n baronet i corky ordinary workaday bloke
• Perdition n theology state eternal punishment damnation sinful
• Gamboge n gum resin produced east asian trees
• Life riley n luxurious carefree existence origin unknown
• Apoplexy n unconsciousness incapacity resulting stroke word pig
• Flamen n roman priest dedicated worship god suetonius
• Pince-nez lose n pair eyeglasses nose clip earpieces
• I ormolu n gold-colored alloy copper zinc tin
• I assegai n slender iron-tipped spear southern african
• Cheeseparing adj careful stingy money man wealth price
• Adonis n handsome young man mustard it  is 
• Lorgnette glasses n pair opera held front person's
• Social nob n person wealth high position boudoir
• Nonce adj occasion present word expression coined sort
• Chicanery n trickery achieve purpose night duke dunstable
• Banns n notice intended marriage traditionally read sundays
• Plugugly n person bullies weaker meet horace gate
• Blancmange n sweet opaque gelatinous dessert made cornstarch
• Barratry n vexatious litigation incitement highly trained legal
• Socage soccage n feudal tenure land involving payment
• Collywobbles n humorous stomach pain queasiness colic dear
• Halma board n game similar chinese checkers doubt
• Cognoscenti books n people considered well-informed esp arts
• Mufti n plain clothes worn person wears uniform
• Gauche adj lacking ease grace unsophisticated socially awkward
• Raconteur n person tells anecdotes skillful amusing things
• Strychnine n bitter highly poisonous compound obtained nux
• Ennui än'wē n feeling listlessness dissatisfaction arising lack
• Infelicity n thing inappropriate esp remark expression added
• Bilious adj spiteful bad-tempered affected related nausea vomiting
• Laconic adj person speech style writing words conversation
• Lacuna n unfilled space interval gap fill lacunae
• Hegemony n leadership dominance usu country social group
• Numinous adj strong religious spiritual quality indicating suggesting
• Repudiate v refuse accept epic gilgamesh penguin classics
• Fête v honor entertain s.o lavishly prologue epic 
• Extispicy akkadian n practice anomalies animal entrails sacrificed
• Hidebound adj unwilling unable change tradition convention babylonian
• Paean n song thing expresses enthusiastic praise epic
• Hierodule n person engaged sacred prostitution existence cases
• League measure n distance miles epic gilgamesh iv
• Myrtle n type evergreen shrub aromatic foliage white
• Bitumen n asphalt tarry part british term wikipedia
• Ashlar n masonry made large square-cut stones facing
• Quim n fluids produced vagina ishtar lover put
• Minas n measure weight one-sixtieth talent coming pounds
• Lustration n purification ritual priests lumahhu epic gilgamesh
• Lapis lazuli n bright blue metamorphic rock pigment
• Carnelian n orange-red gem flute epic gilgamesh viii
• Myriad specific measure n ten thousand  measures pitch
• Flagrante delicto adv act wrongdoing esp sexual lit
• Jowl cheek age n lower part person animal's
• Asphodel n literary an immortal flower grow elysian fields
• Lineament n distinctive feature characteristic face starts commending
• Libation n drink poured offering deity made prayer—all
• Mull v warm beverage add spices sweetening mulling
• Brocade n rich fabric woven raised pattern typically
• Colonnade row n columns supporting roof arcade generally
• Sere adj esp vegetation dry withered rushed set
• Mortise n hole recess cut part designed receive
• Titter v giggle give half-suppressed laugh maids whored
• Mawkish adj sentimental feeble sickly yokels fools—you night
• Passim adv found places text latin,  scattered notes
• Expiate v atone guilt sin generation croesus expiated
• Periphrasis n  or greek indirect circumlocutory phrase grammar
• Medize greek v imitation sympathizing collaborating persians thebans
• Fractious adj esp children irritable quarrelsome faced imminent
• Demagogue n political leader seeks support appealing popular
• Malfeasance n wrongdoing public official faced formal scrutiny
• Cortege cor'tezh n funeral procession person's entourage thebes
• Mantic oedipus adj relating divination prophecy related mancy
• Impedimenta n equipment activity expedition esp considered bulky
• Dace n small freshwater fish minnow family clear
• Palimpsest writing traces n manuscript piece material original
• Multifarious adj types ministry supply  needs party repeat
• Pannikin metal n small drinking cup dumped swiftly
• Haricot n type bean small white seeds esp
• Etiolated adj pale drawn due lack light usu
• Febrile adj showing great deal nervous excitement energy
• Fecundity producing adj capable abundance fertile eastasia protected
• Truncheon n short thick stick weapon police man...paused
• Solipsism n theory exist knew belief mind—surely  demonstrating
• Subtilise v archaic make subtle refine b words
• Theophany n visible manifestation god humankind oxford annotated
• Merism n figure speech thing referred enumerating parts
• Jewish phylactery n small leather box vellum hebrew
• Ephah n hebrew dry measure equivalent bushel gideon
• Etiology n philosophical study origins etiological conclusion explains
• Dross n regarded worthless rubbish silver wine mixed
• Verdure n lush green vegetation condition freshness cf
• Droll adj dryly humorous unusual unexpected lord jim
• Spelt wheat noun n kind bearded ears spikelets
• Cummin alt spelling cumin oxford annotated bible p.1005
• Silage n green fodder compacted stored airtight location
• Covert noun n thicket game hide hiding place
• Stele stela n upright stone slab column bearing
• Obloquy spartan n strong public criticism verbal abuse
• Prognostication bacchae n act foretelling prophesying surprisingly euripides
• Thyrsus n staff spear tipped ornament pinecone carried
• Terebinth n small southern european tree related cashew
• Levirate marriage n custom man obligated marry brother's
• Cheroot n cigar ends open untapered carried rolled
• Exordium n beginning introductory part esp treatise god
• Maund n unit weight asian countries india equal
• Floozy n inf woman reputation promiscuity army halted
• Fusty adj smelling stale musty shafts dusty sunlight
• Malodorous adj smelling unpleasant midnight's children p
• Rapidly young depredation n act attack plunder battle
• Rostrum n raised platform person stands make speech
• Surcease physical n cessation relief consolation light place
• Main image ravelin n fortification wall moat ditch
• Maulvi moulvi n imam muslim doctor law day
• Dupatta n length material worn scarf head covering
• Nautch dance n traditional south asia performed professional
• Reccine rexine n artificial leather made cloth surfaced
• Padma laddoo laddu n ball-shaped indian confection made
• Roseate adj rose-colored optimistic promising good fortune houses
• Langoor type monkey ruined city deserted people abode
• Pomfret n deep-bodied fish living ocean seas i
• Piscine kashmiri adj fish padma succumbed sorceries house
• Pianola n player piano trademarked term amina sister
• Punchinello punch n alternate judy grotesque hook-nosed humpbacked
• Spoor n track scent animal i sniffed strange
• Nictate v blink i burped nictating midnight's children
• Verruca n contagious painful wart sole foot sadhu
• Sisal n mexican agave large fleshy leaves produce
• Malaise n general feeling illness uneasiness difficult identify
• Chawl n type high-density tenement found india usu
• Gantry n overhead structure platform supporting equipment signals
• Outré adj unusual startling unorthodox matter fact descriptions
• Shilly-shally v indecisive fail act resolutely general election
• Parahamsa n sansrkit title honor applied regarded attained
• Numen n spirit divine power presides thing place
• I quotidian adj occurring daily ordinary mundane symbolic
• Simulacrum joke thumb-and-forefinger n image representation esp considered
• Atavistic adj relating characterized reversion ancient ancestral new-born
• Tergiversation n falsification means vague language equivocation argue
• Perfidious lust adj deceitful untrustworthy cf perfidy suddenly
• I thew n. muscular strength admire leg-muscles solicitous padma
• Latrant n complains constantly confessions augustine viii.2 p.162
• Catafalque ˈkatəˌfalk n decorated wooden framework supporting coffin
• Housie-housie n bingo decks adults playing i idea
• Royal equerry n officer british household attends assists
• Blandishment n flattering pleasing statement action persuade september
• Pustule n swelling blister filled pus pustular  body
• Orotund adj voice phrasing full round imposing pompous
• Sartorial adj relating clothes style dress sgt-mjr najmuddin
• Natty adj inf  of person article clothing smart
• Trilby n soft felt hat narrow brim indented
• Limpet n marine mollusk shallow conical shell broad
• Amphora handles i n tall ancient greek roman
• Maunder v talk rambling manner walked parvati back
• Vertiginous grew adj causing vertigo esp high steep
• Bonhomie n cheerful friendliness geniality prison saleem how-on-earth
• Hoydenish adj girl high-spirited boisterous saucy related dutch 
• I heard susurrus susurration n lit whispering murmuring
• Quartan fever n mild malaria recurs day inclusively
• Quaestor n ancient rome official charge public revenue
• Assize n court sits intervals region administer law
• Depilate v remove hair dandy carefully trimmed shaved
• Primp v spend time making minor adjustments esp
• Haruspice haruspex/ices n diviner ancient rome animal entrails
• Group claque n people hired applaud heckle performer
• Hoi polloi n derogatory masses common people preliminary
• Porphyry n hard igneous rock reddish groundmass feldspar
• Bourn n small stream flows intermittently seasonally people
• Strangury n condition caused blockage irritation base bladder
• Hauteur n haughtiness manner disdainful pride erotium i
• Rumor tale bruit v spread report widely glory
• Ilex n holm oak related holly good commander
• Vatic adj lit describing predicting happen future latin
• Sedge n grasslike plant triangular stems growing wet
• Sop n piece bread soaked soup sauce sibyl
• Spate n large number similar things happening quick
• Foment v instigate stir sth hold consul's power
• Fasces n bundle rods projecting axe blade symbol
• Vintner n wine merchant maker italus father sabinus
• Dodder v tremble totter usu age dotage i
• Copse n small group trees shortened form coppice
• Verbena n ornamental herbaceous plant bright showy flowers
• Afflatus n creative impulse inspiration divine hidden  [god
• Thurible n censer incense heart's lord odor holiness
• Subaltern n officer lower rank top humanity gained
• Obnubilate v darken dim cover cloud wisdom...that shines
• Ukase n arbitrary command originally edict russian government
• I parturition n act giving birth heart's labor
• Anfractuosity n winding channel crevice esp separating convolutions
• Exiguous adj small size amount training crime could...escap[e
• I nilled v obsolete  to unwilling refuse reject
• Confute v prove s.t s.o wrong  [the manichaeans
• Condign i adv punishment wrongdoing fitting deserved threw
• I hod n trough pole carrying building materials
• Plectrum n tool pluck strings instrument pick sappho
• Accolade n award privilege granted special honor acknowledgement
• Churlish part adj rude surly impolite ill-mannered reacted
• Assignation n appointment meet secret usu lover dark
• Mahoun n variant muhammad typically christian writers derogatory
• Mortice n variant mortise pinners play crucifixion line
• Churl n impolite person churlish loss i guess
• Jape n practical joke young malingering shepherd sheep
• Slough n swamp figuratively situation progress activity eagerness
• Weal well-being n red swollen mark left skin
• Godhead divine n nature child i side opened
• Dernier cri n latest fashion literally cry save
• Wench v consort prostitutes pick wenching mind ill
• Chary i adj cautiously suspiciously reluctant loved  of
• Dudgeon n feeling offense resentment told latumius lamented
• Marchioness n wife widow marquess canterbury tales trans
• I chatelaine n woman charge large house call
• Ichor n fluid flows veins gods extension bloodlike
• Jakes n toilet esp outdoors filthier deed man
• Braggadocio n boastful arrogant behavior derived character's italian
• Chignon n knot coil hair arranged back one's
• Verger n official church esp orthodox acts caretaker
• Pomade n waxy greasy substance style hair handsome
• Cambric white n light closely woven linen cotton
• Broderie anglaise n type embroidery--example kitty dark lilac
• Insouciance n casual lack concern indifference unworriedness understand
• Cavatina n short simple aria noticing anna's box
• Turbot n european inshore fish large bony tubercles
• Coterie n small group people shared interests tastes
• Greensward n grass-covered ground wood stretched heathery moor
• Majolica talk n kind english earthenware made imitation
• Parquet n flooring composed wooden blocks arranged geometric
• Malachite n bright green mineral desk  blotter unfinished
• N grass catkin spike flowers found trees willow
• Fetlock n joint horse's leg cannon bone pastern
• Caftan n long belted tunic levin back double
• Epaulet(te n ornamental shoulder piece usu coat military
• Aiguillette n ornament consisting braided loops hanging shoulder
• Hoof pastern n sloping part horse's found fetlock
• Croup n anna unrelated meanings rump hindquarters esp
• Fichu n small triangular shawl shade trembling circles
• Tartine n french open-faced sandwich elaborate topping anna
• Cabriolet n wikimedia pearson scott light two-wheeled carriage
• Esprit de corps i n feeling pride common
• Stipule n small leaflike appendage leaf found pairs
• Flacon n small stoppered bottle perfume i anna
• Brilliantine n dated scented oil men's hair make
• Tarantass n four-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle designed reduce jolts
• Pintle n pin parts swing hinge rudder similar
• Chamois n agile goat short hooked horns type
• Fever puerperal n caused infection childbirth doctor colleagues
• Poplin n thin light plain fabric cotton corded
• Bast n fibrous material phloem plant area labeled
• Peignoir dolly n light dressing gown anna middle
• Quittance n release debt obligation document certifying occurred
• Feckless adj lacking initiative strength character irresponsible judith
• Offal n entrails animal refuse waste material began
• Pettish adj person behavior childishly bad-tempered petulant i
• Pipit n brown streaky ground-dwelling songbird judith stories
• Furze n gorse wood stretched heathery moor lay
• Public domain gorse n yellow-flowered shrub pea family
• Scrofula n disease characterized glandular swellings form tuberculosis
• N hock knuckle meat dry white german wine
• Man inn h)ostler n hist  a horses staying
• Paling n fence made pointed stakes elder-tree hangs
• Disport v archaic humorous  to enjoy oneself unrestrainedly
• Chemin de ronde i n raised protected walkway
• Pillion n additional seat passenger saddle motorcycle confused
• Pomander scent n ball perforated container herbs spices
• Cockalorum n self-important man billy bloodhound...preened gaping crowd—the
• Wot v archaic)  knowledge 3rd person wit judge
• Ambuscade ambush n v lie attack piece denser
• Bartizan wikimedia pearson scott n overhanging corner turret
• Embrasure n small opening parapet splayed inside lane
• Alcalde n magistrate mayor esteban explained family provided
• Weir flow n regulation device smaller disruptive dam
• Sublunary adj lit  belonging world contrasted spiritual things
• Arras n tapestry hung wall conceal alcove time
• Tippet fur n long scarf shawl worn neck
• Quiescent adj inactive state dormancy rendered aspect tenfold
• Gabble v talk rapidly unintelligibly utter meaningless sounds
• Groining n part sections groin vault building considerable
• Salle paper n large hall room place sorted
• Poltroon n archaic  an utter coward madam replied
• Mansard roof n type flat section sloping sides
• Adjure v solemnly urge request s.o contours pet
• Basque euskara n language basquerie stories remember p.61
• Cophetua beggar king folk tale falls love penelophon
• Suttee sati n hindu practice widow throwing husband's
• Escutcheon n coat shield emblem bearing arms piece
• Mantilla n lace silk scarf worn hair shoulders
• Sabot n simple kind shoe shaped hollowed block
• Cavalcade n formal procession people household returning mass
• Midden n dunghill refuse heap god filled filthy
• Oeuvre n works creator regarded collectively strong case
• Jackanapes n impertinent person guileless desires lord country
• Reasoning paralogism n piece illogical fallacious esp appears
• Dropsy n collection excess fluid tissues edema natural
• Conventicle n secret unlawful religious meeting usu people
• Dog hair heh n alcohol consumed lessen effects
• Casuistry reasoning moral n solve problems induction i.e
• Bedizened adj dressed decorated gaudily sit louisa ivanovna
• Crinoline young n stiff petticoat worn make long
• Bean n money luzhin man averse him…and crime
• Boffo n./adj roaring success theatrical production good stretch
• Aspic n savory jelly made meat stock set
• Uhlan n cavalryman armed lance i landowner father
• Orison n prayer stuttering rifles rapid rattle patter
• Avuncular adj kind friendly experienced person literally relating
• Suborn v incite commit unlawful act esp perjury
• Distaff n spindle wool wound spinning hospitality offered
• Friable adj easily crumbled
• Rutilant adj glowing red light baudolino umberto eco
• Hypotyposis n rhetoric  a vivid description scenes events
• Austral adj related south baudolino umberto eco
• Lubricious adj intended arouse sexual desire lascivious baudolino
• Dowager n widow title property late husband manuel
• Argot n dialect vocabulary specific group esp criminals
• Inamorata n female lover mistress he...buried valleys forests
• Hetaera n upper-class greek prostitute courtesan frequented flautists
• Strumpet n dated promiscuous woman whore evening zosimos
• Gimcrackery n cheap showy useless item gewgaw trifle
• Bordello n brothel visits reading texts fathers eastern
• Massif n group mountains separated rest range baudolino
• Mezzotint n printing technique apply half-tones engravings reproductions
• Derivative work alembic n type distilling apparatus cauldrons
• Armiger n person entitled bear arms heraldry baudolino
• Archimandrite baudolino n head large orthodox monastery group
• Travertine n type white limestone deposited mineral springs
• Brume n mist fog made cloud dust baudolino
• Spall n splinter chip esp rock ore bounced
• Tuff n type rock made compressed volcanic ash
• Moraine n accumulation sediment rocks carried glacier fact
• Orpiment n bright yellow mineral arsenic trisulfide pigment
• Fornix n arch vault esp body baudolino umberto
• Loricate adj animal shell scales plates lobster  monster
• Odalisque n female slave concubine harem esp turkey
• Canebrake n dense growth cane sugarcane trained blowpipe
• Askesis ascesis n practice self-discipline esp religious reasons
• Postern n back side entrance esp fortified area
• Tufa n porous kind limestone formed precipitation calcium
• Hieratic baudolino n priests crypt boidi glimpsed faces
• Armagnac n type french brandy extremely chastened realize
• Chasuble n garment worn priest celebrating mass confused
• Succor v wandered mule died dragged inhospitable lands
• Eremite n hermit recluse esp religious baudolino umberto
• Recension n./v revised edition text act making
• Lingam n phallus hindu symbol shiva representing divine
• Rococo n elaborately baroque ornamental style art transfiguratively
• Phatic make adj pertaining type language social interaction
• Pugilist n boxer a
• Limn v depict describe painting words peripatetic john
• Bible lollard n follower john wycliffe important influences
• Imprimatur n stamp approval person originally catholic church's
• Ontic adj pertaining real physical phenomenological black swan
• Iatrogenic adj illness damage caused medical treatment intervention
• Balkanize n divide small ineffective mutually quarrelsome states
• Retsina n kind white wine flavored pine resin
• Apostasy act n abandoning one's religious tradition public
• Ersatz adj inferior substitute genuine article fake they’d
• Manumission n act freeing one's slaves racism muted
• Tosspot n british slang drunkard general insult load
• Jute loss n plant-based fiber make rope burlap
• Adumbrate v outline give description idea brilliantly-and convincingly
• Demimondaine woman n fringes respectable society supported wealthy
• Antisepsis germs delay years n practice eliminating disease-causing
• Cybernetics n study systems communications automated control antifragile
• Irenic adj favoring aiming peace lots organizations civility
• Connatural prudence courage n innate naturally found stoics
• Charnel place good n house  a human remains
• Manichaean adj pertaining religion manichaeanism consisting dualistic good/evil
• Abattoir n slaughterhouse vast low dark shed building
• Virginal n type small piano harpsichord strings running
• Skivvy person n low-ranking female servant cullwick born
• Form weatherboard n horizontal board siding house clapboard
• Milliner n maker women's hats ran stupendous unpayable
• Harridan n unpleasant belligerent woman sweet beloved raging
• Castellated adj battlements country rich landowners packed grounds
• Ankylosis n stiffening joint due fusion bone result
• Quicklime n industrial chemical made limestone calcium carbonate
• Publican n person manages pub man industry arkwright
• Sarsen found n type large sandstone boulder southern
• Brindle n./adj animal's fur brown streaks lord’s henry
• Potemkin adj structure figurative facade set make purposes
• Hermeneutic adj pertaining interpretation texts methodology therefor bible
• Buttinsky n person butting meddler busybody history triple
• Computing bellwether public n indicator predictor coming change
• Eschatology n part theology concerned judgment end times
• Pontoon n hollow metal cylinder support boat bridge
• Bricolage n construction characterized improvisation opportunistic materials happen
• Incunabulum n printed book produced early stages printing
• Shambolic adj chaotic disorganized shambles mcmaster briefly served
• Porcine adj pertaining resembling pig spat shouted avaricious
• Coruscating adj flashing sparkling showy presented array narcotics
• Maquillage n makeup gods today aspire co-exist stripped
• Anabasis n expedition march military nature coast interior
• Chartism n ideological movement mid-nineteenth-century england called reform
• Abecedarian ignorance adj arranged alphabetically pertaining alphabet elementary
• Pouf person n offensive gay effeminate man  the
• Ween v opinion suppose brown shining yellow hair
• Chrysoprase krisə'prāz n green form gemstone chalcedony kings
• Legerdemain n sleight hand trickery recent times commonplace
• Taffrail n rail ship's stern top including ornamentation
• Binnacle light n permanent housing ship's compass navigational
• Peculation n stealing esp public property embezzlement quay-side
• Serried round adj crowded arranged rows w]hile utterance
• Batrachian adj pertaining frogs toads traditionally snakes doesn't....his
• Sepulture n burial interment cf sepulchre passed days
• Costermonger n chiefly british person sells goods produce
• Inanition n emptiness lack enthusiasm energy caused starvation
• Popular chapbook n small pamphlet literature sold streets
• Aspidistra n type houseplant broad tapering leaves fireplace
• Souk intellectual n bazaar arab world higher-order questioning
• Consigliere n person's advisor leader mafia criminal organization
• Insalubrious heat levant adj unhealthy climate location blame
• Phalanstery n community people living common commune communion
• Loutish n uncouth rude awkward esp boy man
• Hamartiology n branch theology treats sin movement atheists
• Espouse s.o v marry engaged i]t sung feast
• Overweening adj arrogant overconfident  purpose develop silmarillion p
• Abrogate v repeal avoid one's duty doom gift
• Coeval adj occurring originating time age aevum great
• Toady n obsequious person sycophant v act obsequiously
• Favonian adj pertaining west wind soft gentle heat
• Dinned din v make learn constant repetition r's
• Pavior n paving stone person lays william millington
• Charwoman n british part-time cleaner housekeeper contrast maid
• Interlard n mix embellishments one's speech writing taylor
• Labile adj esp biological/chemical process emotion readily changeable
• Kleptocracy n government run leaders personally steal govern
• Congeries n disorganized mass objects ideas jumble it’s
• Prelapsarian adj relating time fall innocent leavis nostalgic
• Dyspeptic adj./n person disposed indigestion irritability depression caused
• Flophouse n cheap hotel boarding-house adult life he’s
• Side pergola n latticed archway covered climbing plants
• Eristic argument adj characteristic debate made sake arguing
• Fescue n type narrow-leaved lawn grass enigma jason
• Madeleine n type small french sponge cake transformatively
• Wuxia n genre fiction focusing adventures martial artists
• Pettifoggery n act quarreling raising objections petty details
• Recherché adj obscure rare refined pretentious connotation dan
• Aegis n protection deity powerful person organization china
• Apotheosis n elevation divine status highest point reached
• Precariat n collective portmanteau,  precarious proletariat social class
• Fretsawyer n woodworker works fretsaw tool cutting fine
• Peritoneum n membrane lining inside abdomen flaps fresh
• Morula n early stage embryo consisting sixteen cells
• Demijohn n wide medium-sized bottle narrow neck red
• Boskage boscage n mass shrubs thicket roses bloom
• Pullulate v breed spread rapidly teeming approaches monorail
• Brachycephalic adj animal person unusually short skull species
• Incarnadine n./v literary bright crimson pink color related
• Ordure n excrement popé linda whispered john pailful
• Passion balk s.t v thwart hinder prevent anger
• Neurasthenia chastity means n weakness nerves involving symptoms
• Cockchafer n type european beetle agricultural pest humming
• Sesquipedalianism n practice long obscure words paul snyder
• Prolusion introduction n preliminary exercise essay difficult work
• Credit draper n door-to-door salesperson sells goods member
• Patois n nonstandard speech dialect small region subculture
• Nobble v influence esp horse race) by underhanded unfair
• Local condottiere n leader mercenaries esp italy heath
• Local log-rolling n practice exchanging favors esp political
• Philistine n uninterested actively hostile culture arts bourgeois
• Place flesh-pot n offers luxurious sexual accommodations entertainment
• I chaff v tease good-natured chaffed joining wea
• Copacetic ˌkōpəˈsedik adj good order satisfactory i people
• Rapine n violent seizure property rome's leaders forgot
• Bashlyk n conical hood wraps tightly neck worn
• Dulcinea n sweetheart don quixote's beloved god casual
• Supercilious adj behaving thinks oneself superior haughty gardener
• Sericulture n production silk rearing silkworms pasteur arrived
• Dacha n country house owned rich russian family
• Cocotte n small casserole dish euphemism prostitute considered
• Minnesinger n medieval german poet-singer bard first-class passenger
• Cri de coeur n urgent passionate appeal protest
• Dialogues ontogenesis development imaginal n process organism reaching
• Tony adj sophisticated fashionable wealthy people senator susan
• Revanchism n policy seeking vengeance regard lost territory
• Foofaraw n fuss made insignificant excessive ornamentation americans
• Relative tumbrel n two-wheeled horse-cart tips backward empty
• Zaftig adj woman pleasingly full rounded curvy love
• Doyenne n senior woman field cf masculine version
• Louche n disreputable shady esp shamefully attractive statisticians
• Fillip n stimulus energizer originally snap fingers canned
• Pharisaical adj pharisee hypocritical moralizing censuring follow oneself
• Agitprop n political propaganda form art national council
• Pawky lot adj chiefly scottish cynical sly humorous
• Cruse n earthenware container designed holding liquid widow
• Minatory adj conveying threat warning i cinema newsreels
• Welter reading i n confused disorganized mass pile
• Navvy gallery n british dated unskilled laborer engaged
• Perforce adv necessity inevitably sex partner exchange lot
• Enology oenology n study wine blind taste test
• Canard bad kəˈnärd non-technical sense n false unfounded
• Boff v sex s.o i back discovered boffing
• Mendacious adj person piece information lying esp habitually
• Samizdat n./adj clandestinely self-published literature usu avoid government
• Hustings n meeting place political candidates address voters
• Politesse n politeness etiquette sheer wearing smock embarrassed
• Eschaton n theology final event history world lit
• Zeugma n figure speech word applied senses single
• Scrim n strong coarse fabric appears opaque light
• Antinomian n./adj doctrine christians saved grace obligated follow
• Scion n cutting plant grafting rooting figuratively commonly
• Gull v deceive cheat cf gullible elite argued
• Couturier n fashion designer makes clothes tailored specific
• Antimacassar n cloth back chair protect upholstery soiled
• Mews apartments n houses converted stables fashion spending
• Tawdry adj showy cheap gaudy widow’s sons prepared
• Lumpen n./adj dispossessed uninterested coordinated revolution dull stupid
• Copy images external pathognomonic pathognomic adj characteristic disease
• Reticulated adj formed marked net network mushrooms upper
• Arabesque art n ornamental design made intertwined lines
• Manqué i adj often  postpositive fallen short failed
• I uranist n homosexual man paris suited discussed
• Tiddle cup n container guests banquet urinate avoid
• Estampe n engraving print n]ext door art dealer
• Moll n female companion girlfriend esp gangster prostitute
• Phocine adj resembling seal cf porcine lolita yanked
• Profile anent prep archaic chiefly scottish wings driver's
• Seraglio n harem building women ottoman palace self-made
• Lolita iliac adj pertaining upper part hipbone pelvis
• Eructation n burp  that sound cheers mine lolita
• Vermeil h i lolita n material made silver
• Cockles heart n chambers considered kiln verb warms
• Contretemps n minor inopportune event dispute public day
• Ecru n color unbleached linen sort beige grayish
• Duenna n elderly woman serving governess younger i
• Philter n love potion charm year i hoodwinked
• Olisbos n dildo i blazed charlotte's face flashlight
• Swain n mail lover suitor originally country peasant
• Scanties n underpants womens portmanteau scant panties lolita
• Sulcus i girth n groove furrow body brain
• Lentigo n patch spot skin excessive pigment appearing
• Purblind adj poor vision dull slow understand i
• Carpus n wrist bones forming joint fingernails black
• Backfisch n./adj teenage girl originally describe fish considered
• Colleen n chiefly irish girl young woman cop
• Lentor n lethargy slowness stepped suitcase lifting high-heeled
• Area purlieu n outlying place person visits frequently
• Shoat n young pig weaned nature studies enchanted
• Callypygean adj well-shaped buttocks sultan face expressing great
• Clathrate n./adj chemical compound molecules component trapped crystal
• Plangent adj expressive plaintive long loud echo trains
• Canthus n corner eye eyelids meet passed re-passed
• Adman n person works advertising passed re-passed gamut
• Lanugo n fine soft hair found fetuses newborns
• Rufous n reddish-brown color rust rocky mountains pharaonic
• Lucerne n alfalfa rocky mountains pharaonic phallic prehistoric
• Diaphanous adj light translucent fabric hand holding left
• Pavonine adj peacock hand holding left arm untanned
• Raffish n well-dressed presented slightly disreputable unconventional hand
• Leporine lolita adj resembling hare psychiatrist studies case
• Talus cliff n accumulation rocks debris bottom mountainside
• Hassock n ottoman kneeling cushion sit pratt pointing
• Crepitating adj making crackling popping rattling sound periods
• Kurort n health resort spa lolita bravely i
• Tyro n beginner novice common dutiful rackets sheathed
• Gitanilla n gypsy girl diminutive incidentally i clothes
• Maquette n scale model made preliminary version sculpture
• Logodaedaly n skillful cunning words wordsmithing mysterious trapp
• Water undinism n sexual arousal due urine fountain
• Bodkin thick n needle piercing threading cord cloth
• Yap person n person's mouth speak shrilly talk
• Great limpid adj unclouded clear liquid person's eyes
• Taupe n grayish brown stern romantic care gentleman
• Phalanges n plural phalanx fingernails black broken carpus
• I lolita lithophane n fine artwork etched porcelain
• Tricot n type finely knitted fabric side smooth
• Aurochs n type extinct wild cattle reputed great

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