- adamant, adjective. Utterly unyielding in attitude or opinion in spite of all appeals, urgings, etc. (noun) any impenetrably or unyieldingly hard substance.
- cataract, noun. A place in a river where the water falls to a lower level.
- chyron, noun. A digital text-based caption superimposed over usually the lower part of a video image (as during a news broadcast). Named after the Chyron Corporation, manufacturer of a character-generating device that created such captions.
- desultory, adjective. Leaping or skipping about; jumping, or passing, from one thing or subject to another.
- divagate, verb. To wander or drift about; ramble; digress; stray.
- dysania, noun. An extreme difficulty rising from bed or an inability to leave the bed.
- eidolon, noun. A likeness; phantom; apparition; a shade or specter; a confusing reflection or reflected image.
- exercise, verb. Do repeatedly, especially to improve.
- exorcise, verb. Free from evil spirits; cast out demons.
- idioglossia, noun. An invented language developed by an individual or a very small group of people (e.g., by children in close contact, such as twins).
- kritarchy (aka kritocracy), noun. A system of government characterized by rule by judges, especially the system of rule by Hebrew judges described in the Old Testament Bible.
- nudiustertian, adjective. Of or relating to the day before yesterday.
- pastrix, noun. Female who claims to be a pastor, a term usually used pejoratively by Christians who do not recognize female pastors, but embraced by some supporters of female pastors.
- pismire, noun. An ant; emmet.
- rückenfigur (or ruckenfigur), noun. A compositional device in painting (or photography and film) in which the subject is depicted from behind, typically facing away from the viewer to contemplate a distant scene (German, meaning “back-figure” or “figure from the back”).
- stupor, noun. The feeling of distress and disbelief that you have when something bad happens accidentally; marginal consciousness.
- telluric, adjective. Of or pertaining to the earth; proceeding from the earth.
- torpor, noun. A state of mental or physical inactivity or insensibility; the dormant, inactive state of a hibernating or estivating animal.
- veridical, adjective. Truthful; veracious; showing what is true or real.
- zeitgeber, noun. An external stimulus or cue, such as daylight or a regularly repeated occurrence, that serves to regulate an organism’s biological clock.
“Ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein.” Caveat lector
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