definitions can be found (eventually) on my digital garden. but otherwise these are words i've come across when reading in my kobo and saved them.

• autodidacts
• bedlam
• bivouacs
• cairns
• caryatids
• centurions
• cirrus
• cromlechs
• desultory
• detente
• discomfited
• distaff
• dolmens
• dulcimers
• erudite
• everting
• grizzling
• incunabula
• inimical
• matins
• menhirs
• mercurial
• morganatic
• parsimonious
• refusenik
• reticent
• scruples
• serfs
• superciliously
• tactiturn
• theremin
• ululations
• vanguard
• victuals
• yare
• zeitgeist