- abeyance: a state of temporary disuse or suspension
- apodictic: clearly established or beyond dispute, denoting reasoning from self-evidently true propositions
- aspersion: a criticism, suggestion, or remark that damages another person's reputation
- bucolic: pastoral
- calefaction: the act of heating
- cognoscente: a person who has expert knowledge in a subject
- controvert: to deny the truth of
- hagiography: the writing of the lives of saints, or a biography that treats its subject with undue reverence
- obloquy: strong public condemnation
- obviate: to remove a need, or to prevent something undesirable
- octothorpe: technical term for hash symbol
- parochial: putting an end to or precluding a right of action, debate, or delay, specifically not providing an opportunity to show cause why one should not comply
- peremptory: insisting on immediate obedience
- phenology: the study of cyclic and seasonal natural phenomena, especially in relation to climate and plant and animal life
- philamot: (obsolete) brownish-orange reminiscent of autumn foliage
- stenography: the action or process of writing in shorthand and transcribing the shorthand on a typewriter
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