Words I had to look up
- abecedarian
- aberrance
- abjure
- abnegation
- acedia
- adoxography
- adscititous
- aegrotat
- akrasia
- aleatory
- alterity
- alway
- anodyne
- anorak
- antinomy
- apologue
- apotropaic
- apposite
- appurtence
- arcuate
- assignation
- atavism
- atavistic
- augury
- august
- avaunt
- aver
- avocation
- balustrade
- banjaxed
- bellicose
- betoken
- boojum
- bravura
- brisant
- brook (verb)
- buddelia
- calumny
- cantrip
- carom
- carp (verb)
- caryatid
- caryatids
- castigator
- caul
- cavil
- chancre
- chiliastic
- cholagogue
- choss
- chyron
- claque
- clarion
- clew
- cognoscenti
- columbarium
- commensalism
- concomitant
- corrigendum
- cosmogony
- cresset
- cumbered
- curtilage
- decedent
- declivity
- defease
- deliquescent
- deportment
- deracinate
- descant
- desiderate
- desuetude
- desultory
- diaphanous
- dolour
- doryphore
- doyen
- dramaturge
- ductus
- dudgeon
- dyad
- effete
- effulgent
- eidolon
- elegiac
- encomia
- ensorcell
- ephemeris
- epicanthic
- epiphenomenal
- epistolary
- espy
- exegesis
- exordium
- factotum
- faience
- farrago
- fatuous
- febrile
- fell
- fey
- fractious
- freshet
- fug
- gallimaufry
- gamine
- gnomon
- gnosis
- gormless
- gravamen
- griots
- grotesquery
- haecceity
- hamburgevons
- harlequinade
- hawser
- hector (verb)
- helot
- hirsute
- hortatory
- houngans
- idiolect
- immanent
- immure
- impecunious
- imprecation
- incarnadine
- indigent
- inexorable
- ingenue
- insouciant
- intercalate
- internecine
- intumescent
- jeremiad
- kayfabe
- lachrymose
- lacuna
- lagniappe
- lethetic
- limn
- machicolation
- maieutic
- mammon
- mawkish
- merlon
- monomaniacal
- morass
- mordant
- moreish
- mulct
- multifarious
- munificence
- neurasthenia
- noetic
- nosegay
- nugatory
- numinous
- obloquy
- obstreperous
- omphalos
- ontogeny
- opprobrium
- orotund
- oscitant
- osier
- osteoclasts
- paean
- palaver
- paradigmatic
- parquet
- parturition
- pecuniary
- pediment
- penetralia
- perdition
- peremptory
- perfide
- perforce
- peripatetic
- perquisites
- perspicacity
- phatic
- pibroch
- picaresque
- plangent
- pleonastic
- potentate
- pottage
- precis
- preternatural
- prevaricate
- probity
- procrustean
- profligate
- propinquity
- propitious
- proprioception
- protuberances
- proxemics
- puissant
- pulchritudinous
- punctum
- pusillanimity
- rapine
- ratiocination
- recreance
- remonstrance
- resection
- rickle
- rodomontade
- roggle
- roman-fleuve
- roving
- sacherdotalism
- saeculum
- salal
- salubrious
- samizdat
- sanforized
- sapid
- saturnine
- scholium
- sclerotic
- scurrilous
- scytale
- sequelae
- sere
- shambolic
- simper
- slaver
- soger
- solecism
- sophistry
- sou (money)
- sponson
- spoor
- spruik
- stroppy
- subaltern
- supercargo
- supperate
- surcease
- teleological
- tendentious
- tenterhooks
- tergiversate
- terpsichorean
- tetchy
- theodicy
- theophany
- threnody
- throughly
- trammel
- trenchant
- trousseau
- tumescent
- turnabout
- twee
- unguent
- unprepossessing
- uxorious
- vainglory
- valuta
- verdure
- veridical
- vituperation
- voluble
- wert
- whatchamacallum