In other words, bibelot and beyond

• bibelot, noun. A small object of curiosity, beauty, or rarity.
• biblist or biblicist, noun. A person who regards the Bible as the only rule of faith.
• cybernetic, adjective. Of or relating to cybernetics—the mathematical study of communication and control in the animal and the machine; of or relating to computers and internet.
• declaim, verb. To speak aloud in an oratorical manner; to inveigh (usually followed by against).
• disclaim, verb. To deny or repudiate interest in or connection with.
• dogfooding, noun. A company’s use of its own product or services, as a way of testing and helping to sell it.
• elsewhither, adverb. In another direction; toward a different place or goal.
• fusty, adjective. Moldy or musty; stale-smelling or stuffy; (figuratively) old-fashioned or out-of-date.
• gaslighting, noun. The action of tricking or controlling someone by making them believe things that are not true (especially by suggesting that the person may be mentally ill).
• monolith, noun. A large block of stone, especially one used in architecture or sculpture.
• palate, noun. The roof of the mouth; one’s sense of taste; an intellectual taste or liking.
• palette, noun. A thin oval or rectangular board or tablet on which a painter holds and mixes pigments.
• pallet, noun. A portable platform for handling, storing, or moving materials and packages.
• penurious, adjective. Marked by or suffering from penury (severe poverty); given to or marked by extreme stinting frugality.
• pericope, noun. A selection from a book, especially a lection (a liturgical reading for a particular day).
• periscope, noun. A tubular optical instrument containing lenses and mirrors by which an observer obtains an otherwise obstructed field of view.
• quincunx, noun. An arrangement of things by fives in a square or a rectangle, one being placed at each corner and one in the middle.
• shill, noun. A person who publicizes or praises something or someone for reasons of self-interest, personal profit, or friendship or loyalty; (verb) to work as a shill; to hustle.
• steelmanning, noun. The practice of applying the rhetorical principle of charity through addressing the strongest form of the other person’s argument.
• Te Deum, noun. (italics) an ancient Latin hymn of praise to God, in the form of a psalm, sung regularly at matins in the Roman Catholic Church and, usually, in an English translation, at Morning Prayer in the Anglican Church, as well as on special occasions as a service of thanksgiving; a musical setting of this hymn.
• tedium, noun. The quality or state of being wearisome; irksomeness; tediousness.
• triduum, noun. (Roman Catholic tradition) A series of special religious observances over a three-day period, in preparation for a great feast.
• xenolith, noun. A rock fragment foreign to the igneous mass in which it occurs.
• yeoman farmer, noun. A man who farmed his own land.