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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