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hella in progress
more to come, but i really wanted to get this word list off my phone lol
words i learned from tamsyn muir:
from Gideon:
- uncanorous: unpleasant to the ear (coined by Muir; uncanny + clamorous?)
- orison: a prayer; mystical contemplation or communion
- postulant: a person seeking admission to a religious order; a petitioner
- scaphoid: (n) a wrist bone; (adj) shaped like a boat
- chevets: small chapels radiating from an apse
- cozen: to become cozy; to cheat or defraud in a pitiful way
- timbrel: an ancient percussion instrument similar to a tambourine
- overweening: unduly confident, arrogant; exaggerated
- po-faced: with a stern and disapproving expression
- moue: a pout
- bockety: unsteady, rickety (Irish)
- prolix: tediously lengthy
- seneschal: a steward, particularly one in charge of a medieval nobleman's estate
- voile: a light, translucent cotton fabric
- coruscating: reflecting light in flashes; sparkling
- missish: prim and prudish
- missal: a prayer book
- hypovolemia: a state of decreased blood plasma volume
- sarcotesta: a fleshy seed coat, as in the pomegranate
- cambric: a finely woven fabric made from linen or cotton
- cavil: to criticise for petty or frivolous reasons
- numinous: of or relating to a divinity; evoking a sense of the mystical, sublime, or transcendent
- stultifying: stunting or inhibiting; making useless or worthless
- mens rea: "guilty mind," a legal term to do with the intention to commit a crime
- ricasso: the base of a blade, where it joins the tang
- inapposite: inappropriate
- villein: a feudal tenant or serf
- serried: crowded together in rows
- mountebank: a con artist
- vitiated: spoiled, debased
- bounden: archaic variant of 'binding'; made obligatory
- lambent: glowing or luminous
- scabrous: covered with scales or scabs; rough
from Harrow:
- acetabula: the sockets of the hipbone, where the femur fits
- corse: corpse (archaic)
- mawkish: exaggeratedly sentimental
- ureal: consisting of urea
- jejune: naive, simplistic
- physeal: having to do with growth plates of bones
- charnel: from "charnel house," a place where remains are stored
- peristalsis: an involuntary, wavelike contraction, as in the digestive system
- mollience: softness
- chancel: the part of a church near the altar
- synizesis: contracting two syllables into one by shortening a vowel, e.g. Non-ee-us vs. Non-yus
- apodemes: the internal ridges of an exoskeleton where muscles attach
- lazaret: a quarantine station
- whilom: formerly
- linctus: a thick, syrupy medicine for the throat
- fimbriae: fingerlike projections, especially at the end of the fallopian tubes
- labile: easily changed
- bikkie: short for 'biscuit' (Kiwi)
- osier: a type of willow
- narthex: an architectural element of early Christian churches
- cosh: a weighted weapon like a baton
from Nona:
- bruited: to have spread widely
- cachet: prestige
- guerdon: a reward or recompense
- cosset: to overprotect
- roué: a hedonist; a rake
- harridan: a bossy old woman