- portico
- "She skimmed the banisters, emerging into the portico below a stained-glass dome."
- a structure consisting of a roof supported by columns or piers, usually attached to a building as a porch.
- capitulate
- "Ah, it would seem the LEP have capitulated."
- to surrender unconditionally or on stipulated terms.
- heliotrope
- "You'd say: A smell of heliotrope and citron."
- any plant that turns toward the sun.
- sunflower?
- consonant (adj)
- "As Mnementh curved in an arc that would bring them to the perimeter of the Hold, consonant with the friendly nature of this visitation, F’lar surveyed with mounting aversion the disrepair of the ridge defenses."
- in agreement; agreeable; in accord; consistent.
- indolent
- "Let R’gul go southerly to pursue Search among the indolent if lovely women there."
- having or showing a disposition to avoid exertion; slothful.
- ostentation
- "He kept harpers for ostentation rather than because tradition required it."
- pretentious or conspicuous show, as of wealth or importance; display intended to impress others.
- covey
- "Some of the covey had not all winter long made much use of water, judging from the amount of sweet oil gone rancid in their hair."
- a brood or small flock of partridges or similar birds.
- used here to mean a group of women
- peremptorily
- "Fax peremptorily led the way to the quarters he had assigned the bronze rider."
- leaving no opportunity for denial or refusal; imperative.
- reconnoiter
- "The men would follow, unobtrusively, in pairs or singly, to reconnoiter the crafthold and the neater farmholds."
- to inspect, observe, or survey.
- insidious
- "He forced himself to trace in memory the insidious changes."
- stealthily treacherous or deceitful.
- garrulity
- "It was the terrible loneliness of the man’s exile from the Weyr that drove him to garrulity."
- the quality of being garrulous; talkativeness.
- portent
- "No, Lessa cautioned herself, there was more to that portent than revenge."
- an indication or omen of something about to happen, especially something momentous.
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