- à corps perdu • fr. "with lost body."; impetuously; in desperation.
- acouasm • n. ringing noise in head.
- aeolian • adj. pertaining to aeolis or aeolus, god of the winds; carried or caused by wind; musical instrument played by the winds.
- aeolistic • adj. long-winded.
- aere perennius • lat. "more lasting than brass."
- albocracy • n. government by white people.
- amaranthine • adj. of or like the amaranth. unfading; everlasting. of purplish-red color.
- amaryllis • n. any of several bulbous plants of the genus hippeastrum, especially h. puniceum, which has large red or pink flowers and is popular as a houseplant.
- aubade • n. a piece sung or played outdoors at dawn, usually as a compliment to someone.
- avaricious • adj. having or showing an extreme greed for wealth or material gain.
- bibliomancy • n. divination by opening a book at random.
- catoptromancy • n. divination by examining mirror placed underwater.
- creepypasta • n. internet horror stories, passed around on forums and other sites to disturb and frighten readers; a portmanteau of the words creepy and copypasta, a word coined on 4chan in 2006 to describe viral copy-and-pasted text.
- curcubit • n. any plant of the gourd family.
- forgettery • n. a faculty or facility for forgetting; faulty memory: a witness with a very convenient forgettery.
- idyllic • adj. (especially of a time or place) like an idyll; extremely happy, peaceful, or picturesque.
- logorrhea • n. incessant or compulsive talkativeness.
- nacreous • adj. resembling nacre or mother-of-pearl; lustrous; pearly.
- pellucid • adj. clear in meaning, expression, or style; allowing the maximum passage of light, as glass; translucent; clear or limpid.
- penultimate • adj. last but one in a series of things; second to the last.
- pink noise • n. the sensation of hearing something that isn't there.
- portmanteau • n. a word blending the sounds and combining the meanings of two others, for example motel (from ‘motor’ and ‘hotel’) or brunch (from ‘breakfast’ and ‘lunch’).
- scion • n. a young shoot or twig of a plant, especially one cut for grafting or rooting; a descendant of a notable family.
- senescence • n. growing old; aging. cell biology. (of a cell) no longer capable of dividing but still alive and metabolically active.
- superfluous • adj. unnecessary, especially through being more than enough.
- taw • v. to prepare skins by soaking, salting, stretching and paring.
- trochee • n. a foot of two syllables, a long followed by a short in quantitative meter, or a stressed followed by an unstressed in accentual meter.
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