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- Absquatulated: Left abruptly.
- amalgamate: Combine or unite to form one organization or structure.
- ambivalence: The state of having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone.
- ancillary: Providing necessary support to the primary activities or operation of an organization, institution, industry, or system; supplementary.
- annular: Ring-shaped.
- apoplectic: Overcome with anger; extremely indignant; relating to or suffering from apoplexy (stroke).
- arid: (of land or a climate) Having little or no rain; too dry or barren to support vegetation; lacking in interest, excitement, or meaning.
- battening: To thrive or prosper, especially at the expense of others.
- caroming: (of a billiard ball) Striking another billiard ball; hitting and rebounding.
- carrion: The decaying flesh of dead animals.
- Caustic: (of a remark) Sarcastic in a scathing and bitter way.
- cerise: A bright or deep red color.
- cherubic: Having the innocent, chubby face of a cherub; angelic.
- codicil: An addition or supplement that explains, modifies, or revokes a will or part of one.
- cupola: A rounded dome forming a roof or a ceiling; a small dome, especially a on a roof or turret.
- Darrowlike: Resembling Clarence Darrow (1857-1938), a famous American lawyer known for his defense of unpopular causes and skeptical views.
- delirium tremens: A psychotic condition induced by alcohol withdrawal, typically characterized by tremors, hallucinations, anxiety, and disorientation.
- Deontology: The study of the nature of duty and obligation.
- depredation: An act of attacking or plundering.
- dithered: Be indecisive; vacillate.
- Effluvia: An unpleasant or harmful odor, secretion, or discharge; intangible emanation as of a quality or influence.
- elands: Large South African antelopes with spiral horns.
- emanations: An abstract but perceptible thing that issues or originates from a source; a discharge of light, heat, etc.
- enfilading: Raking with gunfire along the length of a target from a flank.
- enmities: The state or feeling of being actively opposed or hostile to someone or something.
- eschatology: The part of theology concerned with death, judgment, and the final destiny of the soul and of humankind.
- Factotum: An employee who does all kinds of work.
- galleons: Large, multi-decked sailing ships used as armed cargo carriers, particularly by Spain from the 16th to 18th centuries.
- gallant: (of a person or their behavior) Brave; heroic; (of a man) Giving special attention to women; chivalrous.
- ganglia: Structures containing a number of nerve cell bodies, typically linked by synapses, and often forming a swelling on a nerve fiber; a mass of tissue.
- gossamer: A light, thin, and insubstantial or delicate material or substance; used to refer to something very light, thin, and insubstantial.
- guile: Sly or cunning intelligence.
- Habitude: A habitual tendency or way of behaving.
- hidebound: Unwilling or unable to change because of tradition or convention.
- hieratic: Of or concerning priests; sacerdotal; following fixed traditions and rules; conventional.
- hierophany: A manifestation of the sacred.
- hothouse: A heated greenhouse; an environment that encourages rapid growth or development, sometimes in a negative way.
- Importunate: Persistent, especially to the point of annoyance or intrusion.
- indited: Compose or write (a literary work).
- Indolent: Wanting to avoid activity or exertion; lazy.
- interregnum: A period when normal government is suspended, especially between successive reigns or regimes; an interval or pause.
- inviolate: Free or safe from injury or violation.
- lambent: (of light or fire) Glowing, flickering, or playing on a surface; (of words or eyes) Dealing with light subjects in a playful or witty way.
- languid: (of a person, manner, or gesture) Having or showing a reluctance to physical exertion or effort; slow and relaxed; (of an activity or period of time) Relaxed and peaceful.
- lithe: (especially of a person's body) Thin, supple, and graceful.
- locus: A particular position, place, or point.
- Lurid: Giving vivid details, especially of something unpleasant; sensational, shocking, or gruesome.
- martyrize: Kill or torment (someone) for his or her beliefs.
- Monomania: Exaggerated or obsessive enthusiasm for or preoccupation with one thing.
- moue: A pouting expression used to convey annoyance or flirtatiousness.
- nexus: A connection or series of connections linking two or more things; a central or focal point.
- obstinacy: The quality or condition of being obstinate; stubbornness.
- ogived: Relating to or denoting a pointed arch, especially one with a continuously molded profile.
- ouliette: A secret dungeon with a trapdoor in the ceiling, in which prisoners were confined.
- pallid: (of a person's face) Pale, typically because of poor health; lacking color or liveliness.
- patrician: An aristocrat or nobleman; belonging to or characteristic of the aristocracy.
- Peregrinations: Journeys, especially long or meandering ones.
- plaintive: Sounding sad and mournful.
- plinth: A heavy base supporting a statue, vase, column, etc.; a block or slab on which a column, pedestal, or structure rests.
- poetaster: An inferior poet.
- poltroons: Cowards.
- priistas: Members or supporters of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), a major political party in Mexico.
- propitiate: Win or regain the favor of (a god, spirit, or person) by doing something that pleases them.
- proselytizing: Advocating or urging a course of action or way of life; converting or attempting to convert someone from one religion, belief, or opinion to another.
- quiescence: A state or period of inactivity or dormancy.
- rangy: (of a person) Tall and thin with long limbs; (of a horse) Alert, with long limbs.
- riparian: Relating to or situated on the banks of a river.
- rollicking: Boisterously happy and full of energy; extremely lively and amusing.
- rote: Mechanical or habitual repetition of something to be learned.
- Ruefully: In a way that expresses sorrow or regret, especially in a wry or humorous manner.
- scrupulously: In a very careful and thorough way; with great attention to detail; in a way that is strict and exact, even about small details.
- scullery: A small kitchen or room at the back of a house used for washing dishes and other dirty household work.
- sfacim: Possibly a misspelling or variant of "sfascim" (Italian for fascism, but context doesn't fit) or more likely "sfaccim" (Neapolitan slang, roughly equivalent to 'bastard' or 'asshole'). Given the context, it's likely slang/insult.
- schemer: A person who makes clever and complicated plans, especially secretly and dishonestly.
- shivaree: A noisy mock serenade performed by a group of people to celebrate a marriage or to annoy an unpopular person.
- simpatico: (of a person) Likable and easy to get along with.
- sodality: A confraternity or association, especially a Roman Catholic one; a group of people united by a common purpose or interest.
- spieling: Delivering a long or rapid speech or story, typically one intended to persuade or impress.
- Stockhausen: Refers to Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007), a German composer widely acknowledged as one of the most important composers of the 20th and 21st centuries. Known for his work in electronic music and indeterminacy.
- sub rosa: Happening or done in secret.
- testamentary: Relating to or bequeathed or appointed by a will.
- trimaran: A yacht or other multihull boat with three hulls in parallel.
- Unpremeditated: (of an act, esp. a crime) Not thought out or planned beforehand.
- viscera: The internal organs in the main cavities of the body, especially those in the abdomen, e.g., the intestines.
- Zeitgeist: The defining spirit or mood of a particular period of history as shown by the ideas and beliefs of the time.
- zither: A musical instrument consisting of a flat wooden sound box with numerous strings stretched across it, played with the fingers or a plectrum.