Genuflect: to bend the knee or touch one knee to the floor in reverence or worship
Querulous: full of complaints; complaining
Threnody: a poem, speech, or song of lamentation, especially for the dead; dirge; funeral song
Evacipate: a fake scrabble word used in the movie Primer. Fake meaning = to undo the consequences of your actions by changing the original circumstances; to erase your own history
Prescient: knowledge of things or events before they exist or happen; having foresight
Stochastic: of or relating to a process involving a randomly determined sequence of observations each of which is considered as a sample of one element from a probability distribution
Estivation: summer hibernation
Alveola: a small cavity, cell, or pit on the surface of an organ (often the lungs) (plural = alveoli)
Antiphrasis: the use of a word in a sense opposite to its proper meaning
Calumnious: slanderous, defamatory
Prolix: extended to great, unnecessary, or tedious length; long and wordy
Probity: honesty, integrity
Accismus: an ironic rhetorical device, in which one feigns indifference, or makes a pretense of refusing something one desires
Viridescent: greenish
Bivouac: a usually temporary encampment under little or no shelter
Eigengrau: the dark grey seen behind the eyelids
Prevarication: to deviate from the truth
Insouciant: nonchalant
Prurient: marked by or arousing an immoderate or unwholesome interest or desire (sexual desire especially)
Execrable: detestable, wretched
Oleaginous: oily
Zugzwang: the necessity of moving in chess when all options are to one's disadvantage
Exegesis: exposition, explanation
Pleach: interlaced or plaited trees
Meretricious: tastelessly showy and falsely attractive; pretentious
Harridan: an ill-tempered scolding woman
Flensing: to strip off blubber or skin
Sibilant: having, containing, or producing the sound of or a sound resembling that of the s or the sh in sash
Puerile: juvenile, childish
Verisimilar: having the appearance of truth; probable
Ebullient: boiling, agitated; liveliness and enthusiasm
Commensalism: a relation between two kinds of organisms in which one obtains food or other benefits from the other without damaging or benefiting it
Dubitative: tending or given to doubt; expressing doubt
Sophistry: subtly deceptive reasoning or argumentation
Importunate: troublesomely urgent; overly persistent in request or demand
Perfidious: treacherous, disloyal
Tyronic: amateurish
Imperious: arrogant, domineering
Supercilious: coolly and patronizingly haughty
Sinistral: left-handed; or relating to the direction of the whorls on a gastropod shell
Vociferous: marked by or given to vehement insistent outcry
Shibboleth: a word or saying used by adherents of a party, sect, or belief and usually regarded by others as empty of real meaning; a truism or platitude
Vituperative: uttering or given to censure: containing or characterized by verbal abuse
Parochial: of or relating to a church parish
Sotto voce: under the breath, in an undertone (in a stage whisper kind of way)
Perspicuity: plain to the understanding, especially because of clarity and precision of presentation
Perspicacity: acuteness of perception, discernment, or understanding
Oblique: not straightforward; indirect; obscure; hence, disingenuous; underhanded; perverse; sinister
Panegyric: formal or elaborate praise; or a eulogistic oration or writing
Zeitgeber: an environmental agent or event (such as the occurrence of light or dark) that provides the stimulus setting or resetting a biological clock of an organism (“time giver”)
Suprachiasmatic nucleus: the part of the brain which acts as a biological clock and measures light input
Inchoate: not fully formed
Ululate: to howl or wail, especially in two short sounds
Concomitant: conjoined or co-occurring
