- obscurantist - deliberately preventing the facts / full details of something from becoming known
- auspice - divine or prophetic token
- ganglion - nerve cell cluster in autonomic nervous system
- libertine - unrestrained by convention or morality
- viscid - glutinous sticky
- birdlime - sticky substance spread on twigs to trap small birds
- effete - affected, overrefined, and ineffectual
- stilted - stiff and self-conscious or unnatural
- catachresis - misuse of word, or departure from conventional usage
- hendiadys - expression of single idea by 2 words connected with "and"
- synecdoche - figure of speech in which a term for part of something refers to the ...
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