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More New Words

Yes, let us once again take a trip through rosy fields of wordly trees.

  • Ambergrised – (uncertain)
  • Argence – silveryness?
  • Apothegm – pithy instructive saying, maxim
  • Benison – blessing, benediction
  • Catafalque – funeral canopy
  • Chancrous – having an ulcer
  • Chrism – consecrated ointment
  • Crepitation – crackling
  • Etiolated – blanched, withered
  • Formication – feeling of ants on skin
  • Fructified – made fruitful, productive
  • Gavotte – old French dance
  • Knurling – small projection, knob
  • Incarnadine – dyed red
  • Inchoate – partial, just begun
  • Innominate – unnamed
  • Lambent – flickering, radiant
  • Limned – rendered artistically
  • Malison – curse, (antonym of benison)
  • Mephic – (uncertain) 2
  • Nacre – mother-of-pearl
  • Nacreous – like mother-of-pearl
  • Obbligato – persistent subordinate motif
  • Palliation – mitigation, hiding
  • Paucity – scarcity, insufficiency
  • Preterite – in the past
  • Redolent – scented, sweetly odorous
  • Roynish – mangy, mean
  • Sabulous – gritty, sandy
  • Stertorously – snoring, noisily breathing
  • Susurrus – whisper, sound of murmuring
  • Telic – purposive
  • Theurgy – miracle, sorcery
  • Thetic – setting forth, like a thesis
  • Threnody – song of lamentation, dirge
  • Travertine – white calcium carbonate

Ambergrised: Ambergris is “A substance of the consistence of wax, found floating in the Indian Ocean and other parts of the tropics, and also as a morbid secretion in the intestines of the sperm whale, which is believed to be in all cases its true origin. In color it is white, ash-gray, yellow, or black, and often variegated like marble. The floating masses are sometimes from sixty to two hundred and twenty-five pounds in weight. It is wholly volatilized as a white vapor at 212 Fahrenheit, and is highly valued in perfumery.” Make of that what you will.

Mephic: Really not certain on this one. Closest thing I could find is “mephis”, but it is more likely to mean something close to “mephitic”, which means noxious, poisonous, foul-smelling, etc.


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