• adumbrate: 1. to produce a faint image or resemblance of; to outline or sketch. 2. to foreshadow; prefigure. 3. to overshadow.
• aleatoricism: is the creation of art by chance, exploiting the principle of randomness.
• amanuensis: a person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another; secretary.
• antistrophe: the second section of an ancient Greek choral ode or of one division of it.
• argosy: a large merchant ship (Venice)
• argot: the jargon or slang of a particular group or clas
• asperity: harshness of tone or manner
• autarchy: 1. A policy of national self-sufficiency and nonreliance on imports or economic aid. 2. A self-sufficient region or country.
• bathos: an effect of anticlimax created by an unintentional lapse in mood from the sublime to the trivial or ridiculous.
• benthic: benthic depths
• bolshiness: (of a person or attitude) deliberately combative or uncooperative
• bricolage: 1. a construction made of whatever materials are at hand; something created from a variety of available things. 2. the use of multiple, diverse research methods.
• callipygian: having nicely-shaped buttocks
• canard: an unfounded rumor or story : the old canard that LA is a cultural wasteland
• captious: (of a person) tending to find fault or raise petty objections.
• cataleptic: a medical condition characterized by a trance or seizure with a loss of sensation and consciousness accompanied by rigidity of the body.
• chthonic
• colloquy: 1. a conversation 2. a gathering for discussion of theological questions.
• copacetic: in excellent order
• crenellation: the battlements of a castle or other building.
• cupidity: greed
• cynosure: object that serves as a focal point of attention and admiration.
• demotic: denoting or relating to the kind of language used by ordinary people; popular or colloquial
• denude: Strip (something) of its covering, possessions, or assets; make bare.
• diptych: any object with two flat plates attached at a hinge
• ecumenical: : 1. worldwide or general in extent, influence, or application

2 a : of, relating to, or representing the whole of a body of churches b : promoting or tending toward worldwide Christian unity or cooperation

• bosky: covered with or consisting of bushes or thickets
• encomium: a formal expression of high praise; eulogy
• enthymeme: an argument in which one premise is not explicitly stated.
• equanimity:
• expropriate: to dispossess (a person) of ownership.
• farinaceous: flour or meal made of cereal grains, nuts, or starchy roots.
• friable: easily crumbled
• fructify: bear fruit or become productive
• fustian: pompous or pretentious speech or writing
• glabrous: (chiefly of the skin or a leaf) free from hair or down; smooth
• haruspice: A diviner of ancient Rome.
• helot (p. helotry): a member of a class of serfs in ancient Sparta, intermediate in status between slaves and citizens.
• hieratic: of or concerning priests
• imprimatur: sanction or approval; support.
• inspissate: make thick or thicker;
• invidious: 1. (of an action or situation) Likely to arouse or incur resentment or anger in others 2. (of a comparison or distinction) Unfairly discriminating; unjust.
• irenic: promoting peace
• irredentist: a member of a party in any country advocating the acquisition of some region included in another country by reason of cultural, historical, ethnic, racial, or other ties.
• irrefragable: not able to be refuted or disproved; indisputable
• lactescent: milky in appearance
• lacuna: an unfilled space or interval; a gap
• marmoreal: of or like marble.
• mendicant: beggar
• milquetoast: a weak, ineffectual or bland person.
• noosphere: "sphere of human thought"
• numinous: 1. supernatural. 2. surpassing comprehension or understanding; mysterious. 3. arousing one's elevated feelings of duty, honor, loyalty, etc.: a benevolent and numinous paternity.
• odium: 1. intense hatred or dislike. 2. reproach, discredit, or opprobrium.
• officious: objectionably aggressive in offering one's unrequested and unwanted services; meddlesome.
• otiose: 1. serving no practical purpose or result 2. indolent, idle
• pablum: trite, naive, or simplistic ideas or writings; intellectual pap.
• parlous: perilous; dangerous.
• parturition: childbirth
• patrimony: property inherited from one's father or male ancestor.
• peremptory: 1. leaving no opportunity for denial or refusal; imperative. 2. imperious or dictatorial. 3. positive or assertive in speech, tone, manner, etc.
• plebiscite: A direct vote in which the entire electorate is invited to accept or refuse a proposal.
• plenary: ; 1. complete; entire; absolute; unqualified: plenary powers. 2. attended by all qualified members; fully constituted: a plenary session of Congress.
• polity: a particular form or system of government.
• prelatic: A high-ranking member of the clergy, especially a bishop.
• remiss: lacking care or attention to duty; negligent
• resile: abandon a position or course of action
• rubicund: (esp. of someone's face) having a ruddy complexion; high-colored.
• ruction: a disturbance, quarrel, or row.
• sacrament: a religious ceremony or act of the Christian Church that is regarded as an outward and visible sign of inward and spiritual divine grace, or a thing of mysterious and sacred significance; a religious symbol.
• scrofulous: Morally degenerate; corrupt.
• solecism: 1. a nonstandard or ungrammatical usage. 2. a breach of good manners or etiquette. 3. An impropriety, mistake, or incongruity.
• stertorous: (of breathing) noisy and laboured
• stochastic: randomly determined; having a random probability distribution or pattern that may be analyzed statistically but may not be predicted precisely
• suppurate: undergo the formation of pus; fester.
• swami: Hinduism A religious teacher.
• tenebrous: dark; gloomy; obscure.
• termagant:
• traduce: to expose to shame or blame by means of falsehood and misrepresentation
• tranche: a portion of something, esp. money