Adroit – clever, resourceful
Adventive – not native or well-established
Adytum – a sacred place that is forbidden to enter; a shrine
Alate – having wings, winged
Anamnesis – the recollection or remembrance of the past
Apposite – very apt or applicable to the moment
Atelier – workshop or studio
Beldam – a witch, an old woman (rude)
Bespeak – to show; indicate; to speak to
Bilious – unpleasant, peevish
Boscage – a mass of trees or shrub
Braird – to sprout; the first shoots of a plant
Burled – having small knots that produce a distorted grain in the wood
Calvous – bald or near-bald
Canticle – a song, hymn, or poem of praise
Churlish – boorish or rude; stingy; mean
Cimmerian – very dark; gloomy; deep
Conciliate – to placate, to win over, to win the goodwill of
Concomitant – accompanying
Copacetic – very satisfactory, fine
Cortege – a ceremonial procession; a retinue
Countervail – to counteract, to compensate for, to battle an opposing force
Crepitate – to make a crackling sound
Dipsomania – an irresistible craving for alcoholic drink
Draconian – excessively harsh, severe
Effulgent – brilliantly radiant
Elegiac – expressing sorrow, relating to mourning
Excogitate – to devise; to study intently
Execrable – wretched, detestable
Expostulate – to reason earnestly with someone against something that the person intends to do or has done
Feckless – weak, irresponsible
Fusty – having a stale smell; moldy; out-of-fashion; fogeyish
Gasconade – boastful talk; to boast
Inculcate – to teach or impress by frequent repetition or instruction
Intransigent – uncompromising
Knavery – unprincipled dealing; trickery
Lapidary – engraved in stone, the art of chiseling
Largesse – generosity; gifts or favors given
Lassitude – tiredness or apathy
Limerence – an involuntary emotional state where someone feels intense romantic desire for another
Lummox – a clumsy, stupid person
Mendacity – tendency to lie
Mettle – courage; temperament; disposition
Mordant – biting, incisive, pungent
Operose – done with or involving much labor; industriousness in a person
Opuscule – a minor work, a small book
Parsimonious – frugal, restrained
Perdition – damnation, Hell, utter destruction
Pernicious – causing serious harm, malicious, wicked
Peroration – a long speech characterized by lofty or pompous language
Persnickety – fussy; snobbish; particular
Pied – having patches of many colors
Postprandial – happening or done after a meal
Prevaricate – to depart from or evade the truth
Profligacy – reckless extravagance; abundance of something
Procellous – stormy, as the sea
Quean – a hussy, a shrew, a prostitute
Rapine – the act of plundering
Rebarbative – irritating, repellent
Rhadamanthine – harshly strict
Serry – to crowd closely together
Screed – a long diatribe; an informal letter, account, or other piece of writing
Solecism – a breach of etiquette; any error, impropriety, or inconsistency
Stertor – a heavy snoring sound
Tramontane – being or situated beyond the mountains; foreign; barbarous
Viridian – a blue-green color
Weald – wooded or uncultivated country
