• http://www.hoboes.com/FireBlade/Fiction/Carroll/Sylvie/Concluded/preface/
• schadenfreude
• fremdschämen
• au taquet:
  • Figuré) (Familier) À fond, au maximum;
    • Je ne peux pas vous faire plus de réduction, désolé mais je suis au taquet !
  • Très motivé, déterminé;
    • Eh bien, Émilie est au taquet ce matin.
  • (Fauconnerie) Toujours au même endroit, en parlant de la façon d’élever ou de nourrir des oiseaux en liberté.
    • Nourrir un oiseau au taquet.
• attrape-nigaud - con
• nigaud - adj. silly, noun. goof, twit
• raillerie - n. mockery, dire qch sur le ton de la rallerie to say sth in a mocking tone
• dearth - scarcity
• sibilant
• visceral
• faux naif - affectedly simple/childlike; false show of innocence childlike, spuriously so
• prodigal - Spending money or resources freely and recklessly; wastefully extravagant; characterized by profuse or wasteful expenditure : lavish; recklessly spendthrift
• calumnious - slanderous or defamatory; the act of uttering false charges or misrepresentations maliciously calculated to harm another's reputation
• importunity - insistent solicitation and entreaty
• ancillary
• chariest - very cautious/wary
• anosmic
• Palilogy
• polysemous/polysemy
• banister & ballistrade
• spate
• fundament - foundation; anus
• torrid - ardent, passionate; intensely hot
• torpid - dormant, lethargic
• umbrage- offense, annoyance
• flummox - to perplex greatly
• dysphemism -A derogatory or unpleasant term used instead of a pleasant or neutral one, such as “loony bin” for “mental hospital.”.
• abrade -Scrape or wear away by friction or erosion.
• sequelae - secondary consequence or result
• luddite
• sacrosanct
• trope - A figure of speech using words in nonliteral ways
• discomfit - (v)
• thorn (letter - old English)
• digraph or digram
• phoneme
• cataglottism
• pleonasm (unremarkable)/tautology (unnecessary)
• concision
• etymology
• verbiage
• abet
• achene
• irascible
• pudenda
• sagacious
• desultory
• prehensile

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