In other words, beasties and besties

• anecdata, noun. Information or evidence based on reports of individual cases rather than systematic research or analysis; anecdotal evidence.
• Archimedean point, noun. (Latin: Punctum Archimedis) A hypothetical viewpoint from which certain objective truths can perfectly be perceived (also known as a God’s-eye view) or a reliable starting point from which one may reason. A point ‘outside’ from which a different, perhaps objective or ‘true’ picture of something is obtainable.
• barley sugar, noun. An amber-colored hard sweet made of boiled sugar, often flavored with an extract of barley, and traditionally shaped into twisted sticks or oblong drops.
• beastie, noun. A familiar or affectionate name for an animal, often a farm animal or a pet.
• bestie, noun. (Informal) A person’s best friend.
• chopsy, adjective. Having prominent, fleshy jowls; jowly.
• demonym, noun. The name used for the people who live in a particular country, state, or other locality.
• dittography, noun. A mistaken repetition of a letter, word, or phrase by a copyist; reduplication of letters or syllables in writing, printing, etc., usually through error.
• escarpment, noun. (Geology) A long, precipitous, clifflike ridge of land, rock, or the like, commonly formed by faulting or fracturing of the earth’s crust.
• exegesis, noun. The study of a particular text of Scripture in order to properly interpret it; the process of understanding a text and making plain its meaning.
• existential, adjective. (Philosophy) Concerned with existence, especially human existence as viewed in the theories of existentialism. (Logic) Affirming or implying the existence of a thing.
• garderobe, noun. A room used for storing clothing, armour, or objects of value; (occasionally) the contents of this. More generally: any private room or chamber, as a sleeping apartment, a dressing room, etc.
• gyaff, noun. Idle chat, gossip. Also: an instance of this; a chat; a piece of gossip.
• jump-up, noun. (Australian) An escarpment.
• hough, verb (used with object) To hamstring; disable (a person or animal) by cutting the hamstrings.
• nolo contendre, noun. A plea by which a defendant in a criminal prosecution accepts conviction as though a guilty plea had been entered but does not admit guilt.
• polymath, noun. A person of wide-ranging knowledge or learning.
• prolix, adjective. (of speech or writing) Using or containing too many words; tediously lengthy.
• scabble, (also scapple) verb, transitive. To work or shape roughly (as stone before leaving the quarry); to dress (as stone) in any way short of fine tooling or rubbing.
• Sola Scriptura, noun. Christian teaching that only Scripture (or “Scripture alone”) is the infallible, sufficient, and final authority for  churches and Christians.
• sovereignty, noun. God’s complete control over all things in nature and the affairs of men, past, present, and future.
• taphophile, noun. A person who is interested in cemeteries and gravestones.
• trajectory, noun. The curve described by a projectile, rocket, or the like in its flight.