In other words, adamant to zeitgeber

• 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.

In other words, aboulia to vying

• aboulia (also abulia), noun. A pathological inability to make decisions.
• aesthete, noun. A person who has or professes to have refined sensitivity toward the beauties of art or nature.
• aseity, noun. (Theology, Metaphysics) Existence originating from and having no source other than itself; self-existence (from Latin a ‘from’ and se ‘self’ + -ity, a suffix of state, condition, or quality).
• catena, noun. A connected series of related things; (Theology) a connected series of texts written by early Christian theologians (from the Latin, meaning “chain”).
• circumambient, adjective. Ascribing to all aspects of; encompassing; surrounding.
• cognomen, noun. Name; surname; any name, especially a nickname.
• concatenation, noun. A series of things depending on each other as if linked together; the state of being linked together as in a chain; union in a linked series.
• desideratum, noun. Something considered essential, necessary, or highly desirable.
• froth, noun. Bubbles formed in or on a liquid; foam.
• froth, verb. To foam at the mouth; to cause to foam.
• frother, noun. A device for making liquid, especially milk for coffee, frothy (that is, full of small air bubbles).
• gallimaufry, noun. A confused medley, jumble, hodgepodge; also, a type of stew or hash.
• gauche, noun. Lacking grace and perceptivity in social situations; tactless; socially awkward (from French, meaning “left”).
• gaucho, noun. A cowboy of the South American pampas; (pl.) Calf-length pants with flared legs (from South American Spanish, meaning “comrade”).
• hospo, noun. (Australian and New Zealand slang). The hospitality industry.
• inspissate, verb. Become thick or thicker; make thick.
• ludic, adjective, Of or pertaining to play; playful; lively and full of fun.
• minatory, adjective. Of a menacing or threatening nature; minacious.
• minority, noun. The smaller in number of two groups forming a whole.
• myrmidon, noun. A soldier or a subordinate civil officer who executes orders of a superior without protest or pity.
• propaganda, noun. Ideas, facts, or allegations spread deliberately to further one’s cause or to damage an opposing cause; (Roman Catholic) A committee of cardinals, established in 1622 by Pope Gregory XV, having supervision over foreign missions and the training of priests for these missions. (from Latin congregātiō dē propāgandā fidē meaning “congregation for propagating the faith”)
• spoonerism, noun. The transposition of initial or other sounds of words, usually by accident (e.g. snail tracks for trail snacks).
• stochastic, adjective. Random; chance; involving probability; opposite of deterministic.
• vying, verb. Present participle of vie ( to strive for superiority; contend).

In other words, b to threnody

• threnody, noun. A poem or song of mourning or lamentation.
• solipsism, noun. The view that the self is the only reality.
• sforzando, noun. (Music) A tempo mark directing to play a note with sudden, strong emphasis.
• Satanist, noun. a person who engages in any of a highly diverse group of religious, philosophical, or countercultural practices centered around Satan.
• quoz, noun. An odd, absurd, or ridiculous person or thing.
• pogonotrophy, noun. The act of cultivating, or growing and grooming, a mustache, beard, sideburns or other facial hair.
• plenipotentiary, noun. A person (especially a diplomat) Invested with full power to act on behalf of another.
• maladroit, adjective. Marked by a lack of adroitness; clumsy; inept; awkward in movement or unskilled in behavior.
• magister, noun. A master or teacher in ancient Rome; a male member/priest of the Fourth Degree in the Church of Satan (female, magistra); the possessor of a master’s degree.
• maga, noun. A female member/priestess of the Fifth Degree in the Church of Satan (male, magus).
• lucubration, noun. Laborious study or thought; the product of such laborious effort or study.
• lubrication, noun. Minimizing the friction force between surfaces sliding on each other, by lubricant (by a fluid, such as oil).
• lex talionis, noun. The principle or law of equal retaliation (i.e., a punishment inflicted should correspond in degree and kind to the offense of the wrongdoer, as “an eye for an eye”). Latin “law of talion” (i.e., retribution).
• grotto, noun. A cave or cavern; an artificial cavernlike recess or structure.
• Disneyfication, noun. The process of transforming real places, events, cultures, or ideas into simplified, sanitized, and commercially appealing entertainment.
• cosplay, noun. The practice of dressing up as a character from a movie, book, or video game (portmanteau of costume and play).
• Church of Satan, proper noun. A religious organization dedicated to the religion of Satanism as defined by Anton Szandor LaVey.
• cabal, noun. A secret political clique or faction; a small group of secret plotters; a mystical local group of Satanists.
• bicinium, noun. An unaccompanied composition for only two parts, especially one for the purpose of teaching counterpoint.

In other words, a to voluble

• acrimony, noun. Sharpness, harshness, or bitterness of nature, speech, of disposition.
• ataractic, adjective. Able to calm or tranquillize.
• avarice, noun. Insatiable greed for riches; inordinate, miserly desire to gain and hoard wealth.
• bier, noun. A stand on which a corpse or the coffin is placed before burial; such a stand together with the corpse or coffin.
• blather, noun. Foolish, voluble talk.
• blatherskite, noun. A person given to blather; a person full of incessant, empty talk.
• boscage (also, boskage), noun. A mass of trees or shrubs; wood, grove, or thicket.
• curio, noun. Any unusual article, object of art, etc., valued as a curiosity.
• ephemera, noun. Items designed to be useful or important for only a short time, especially pamphlets, notices, tickets, etc.
• fissiparous, adjective. Tending to break or split up into parts; divisive.
• fulgurate, verb. To emit flashes of lightning; to flash or dart like lightning.
• matrimony, noun. The state of being married; marriage; the rites or ceremony of marriage.
• mondegreen, noun. A form of error arising from mishearing a spoken or sung phrase.
• moue, noun. A pouting grimace.
• nothingburger, noun. (Slang) A thing that is less consequential or important than originally suspected; a person or thing of little or no importance; a dud.
• numismatics, noun. The study or collection of coins, paper currency, and medals.
• Palladian, adjective. Of or relating to the goddess Athena (Pallas); pertaining to wisdom, knowledge, or study.
• postprandial, adjective. After a meal, especially after dinner (e.g. postprandial nap; postprandial lounging).
• scofflaw, noun. A contemptuous law violator; a person who flouts the law.
• skiddoo, verb. (Informal) To go away; get out (probably a variant of skedaddle).
• titian, noun. A bright auburn color, tinted with gold.
• tristful, adjective. Sad, sorrowful, gloomy, melancholy.
• voluble, adjective. Characterized by a ready and continuous flow of words; talkative.

Definitions with a point

• avarich, adjective. Having wealth or great possessions accumulated through an insatiable greed for riches (a portmanteau of avarice + rich).
• confuzzled, adjective. A state of being extremely bewildered or perplexed (a portmanteau of confused + puzzled).
• educatiolatry, noun. Worship of and/or excessive and unwarranted reverence for education (a portmanteau of education + idolatry).
• eggs-pert, noun. One with the special skill or knowledge representing mastery of the subject of eggs.
• ex-pert, noun. One who used to show bold and impertinent behavior, but no longer does so.
• ex-spurt, noun. One who used to used to be capable of sudden bursts of effort, but no longer is.
• figmentary, adjective. Pertaining to or connected with things created, imagined, or invented in the mind (figment, a product of mental invention or notion + -ary, a suffix with the general sense “pertaining to, connected with”).
• hate speech, noun. Speech that is hated by the people defining it.
• illeagle, noun. A sick symbol of the United States of America.
• impastor, noun. A person who deceives by pretending to be a pastor; a false teacher (a portmanteau of impostor + pastor).
• ka-balloon, interjection. A sudden and loud sound of a balloon popping.
• lymph, verb. To walk with a lisp.
• macrimony, noun. The state of being in a harsh and bitter marriage (a portmanteau of matrimony + acrimony).
• occupatience, noun. The act of waiting for the right job to come along (a portmanteau of occupation + patience).
• poly-scriptura, noun. Many scriptures (from poly “many” + scriptura “scripture”). A recently coined phrase used by some to describe those Christians who find authority in many different translations of the scriptures.
• sheeple, noun. People who blindly follow orders and avoid critical thinking (a portmanteau of sheep + people).
• smord, noun. A portmanteau (from smushed word).
• texagon, noun. A plane figure in the shape of Texas.
• transhee, noun. A man in the form of a wailing woman who appears to or is heard by members of a society as a sign that their society is dying.
• transposer, noun. A transgender person who writes music (a portmanteau of transgender + composer).
• weerie, adjective. Exhausted by things that incite superstitious fear (from weary + eerie).
• YouTubesday, noun. The Tuesday you spent all day watching videos on YouTube.

In other (German) words

• angst, noun. A feeling of dread, anxiety, fear, or anguish.
• ausgangstext, noun. Initial text, that is, the earliest recoverable version of a text that can be considered the direct predecessor to the surviving manuscript traditions.
• blitz, noun. A swift, intensive attack or effort.
• dachshund, noun. One of a German breed of dogs having short legs, a long body and ears, literally “badger dog.”
• delicatessen, noun. A store selling foods already prepared or requiring little preparation for serving, as cooked meats, cheese, salads, and the like.
• doppelgänger, noun. A double or counterpart of a living person; someone who looks like someone else.
• fest, noun. A festival, celebration, or party.
• gesundheit, interjection. Good health, used for good wishes to a person who has just sneezed.
• hinterland, noun. Wilderness, backwoods, “the land behind.”
• kaput, adjective. Ruined; broken; not working.
• kindergarten, noun. In the U.S. a school or class for young children between the ages of four and six years (from German kinder, “children” + garten, “garden”).
• kitsch, noun. Art or design considered tasteless or overly sentimental
• leitmotif, noun. A unifying or dominant motif; a recurrent theme; recurring theme in a work.
• poltergeist, noun. A noisy ghost; mischievous spirit.
• rucksack, noun. A backpack, often for hiking or traveling.
• sauerkraut, noun. Cabbage cut fine, salted, and allowed to ferment until sour (from German sauer, “sour” + kraut, “cabbage,” “greens”).
• schadenfreude, noun. A feeling of pleasure or satisfaction when something bad happens to someone else.
• sitz im leben, noun phrase. The context in which a text, or object, has been created, and its function and purpose at that time.
• sosein, noun. The qualities or properties something has; being, essence.
• weltanschauung, noun. A worldview (from German welt, “world” + anschauung, “vision”).
• weltschmerz, noun. A feeling of sadness and lack of hope about the state of the world.
• zeitgeist, noun. The spirit of the time; the general trend of thought, etc., characteristic of a particular period of time.

In other words, ana to xeno

• anadiplosis, noun. Rhetorical repetition at the beginning of a phrase using the word or words with which the previous phrase ended.
• brinkmanship, noun. The art or practice of pushing a dangerous situation or confrontation to the limit of safety. especially to force a desired outcome.
• claustrophobic, adjective. Relating to or suffering from claustrophobia, a fear of narrow or confined spaces.
• dispositive, adjective. Relating to or determining the outcome of a case or decision.
• froyo (also fro-yo), noun. (Informal) Short for frozen yogurt.
• imbroglio, noun. A difficult or intricate situation; an entanglement; a confused heap.
• ignominy, noun. Disgrace; dishonor; public contempt.
• infamy, noun. Extremely bad reputation, public reproach, or strong condemnation as the result of a shameful, criminal, or outrageous act.
• interlocutor, noun. A person who takes part in a conversation or dialogue.
• inveigh, verb. Speak against in an impassioned manner; complain bitterly.
• jaggery, noun. A coarse, dark sugar, especially that which is made from the sap of East Indian palm trees.
• janiform, adjective. Two-faced; resembling the god Janus, having two faces looking in opposite directions (also Janus-faced).
• mellifluous, adjective. Sweetly or smoothly flowing; sweet-sounding; flowing with honey.
• osmosis, noun. A subtle or gradual absorption or mingling; (Science) the diffusion of fluids through membranes or porous partitions.
• palaver, noun. A conference or discussion; a parley or conference between persons of different cultures; idle chatter.
• repatriate, verb. To restore or return to the country of origin, allegiance, or citizenship.
• superfluous, adjective. Being more than is sufficient or required; excessive; overflowing; unnecessary.
• tamalada, noun. A tamale-making get together or party.
• xenophobic, adjective. Suffering from xenophobia, a fear of strangers or foreigners.

Awhile versus A While

As I get older I seem to become more forgetful, and have problems with stuff I once knew well. However, with “awhile” versus “a while” I think I have generally always had problems remembering the correct usage. Here is how it should be:

“Awhile” is an adverb. It means “for a while.” As an adverb, “awhile” usually modifies a verb – as in “I will wait awhile.”

“While” is a noun. It means “a period of time” (and “a” is an indefinite article modifying it). Usually, the two words “a while” is used when following a preposition – as in, “I will wait for a while” – or with the words ago or back (a while ago; a while back).

In other words, apathy to zenith

• apathy, noun. Absence of passion, emotion, or excitement; lack of interest in or concern for things that others find moving or exciting. (Cf. empathy and sympathy.)
• banausic, adjective. Merely mechanical; mundane; routine (from Greek Banausos/βάναυσος, a pejorative term applied to manual laborers).
• belabor, verb. To explain, worry about, or work at (something) repeatedly or more than is necessary; 
• beleaguer, verb. To surround or beset, as with troubles; to surround with military forces.
• bromide, noun. A commonplace or hackneyed statement or notion; a platitude, often designed to placate.
• cacography, noun. Bad handwriting; poor penmanship; incorrect spelling.
• cacoethes, noun. A bad custom or habit; an insatiable desire.
• corybantic, adjective. Frenzied, ecstatic, unrestrained; wildly emotional (i.e., being in the spirit or manner of the Corybants, the attendants of the Greco-Roman goddess Cybele).
• delineate, verb. To draw or depict; to describe or characterize in words.
• doohickey, noun. (Informal) A gadget; thingamajig.
• empathy, noun. The psychological identification with the emotions, thoughts, or attitudes of another. (Cf. apathy and sympathy.)
• glossology, noun. (Archaic) The science of language; linguistics.
• idiosyncratic, adjective. Pertaining to the nature, characteristic, habit, or manner peculiar to an individual.
• inanition, noun. Exhaustion from lack of nourishment; starvation; lack of vigor; lethargy.
• interlard, verb. To diversify by adding or interjecting something unique, striking, or contrasting; (Obsolete) to mix, as fat with lean meat.
• nepo baby, noun. A person whose career is similar or related to the career in which a parent succeeded (especially a child of a famous parent, such as an actor or musician; short for nepotism baby).
• obdurate, adjective. Unmoved by persuasion, pity, or tender feelings; stubborn; unyielding.
• peroration, noun. (Rhetoric) The concluding part of a speech or discourse, in which the speaker or writer recapitulates the principal points and urges them with greater earnestness and force.
• rhinoglottophilia, noun. (Linguistics) The connection between or co-occurrence of laryngeal (glottal) and nasal articulations (rhino- of the nose +‎ glotto- of the tongue, speech +‎ -philia love or like; coined by linguist James Matisoff in 1975).
• spoor, noun. A track or trail, especially that of a wild animal pursued as game.
• sympathy, noun. The act or state of feeling sorrow or compassion for another. (Cf. apathy and empathy.)
• zenith, noun. The point on the celestial sphere that is directly above the observer; the highest point above the horizon attained by a celestial body.

Nitpicking

nitpicking, noun.

1. (literally) The painstaking process of removing nits (lice eggs) from someone’s hair.
2. (figuratively) A process of searching for, finding, and/or pointing out small details or errors.

Many folks criticize other folks for ‘nitpicking.” Yes, it can be a problem. On the other hand, it can be better to pick nits than to deal with full grown lice. Often, addressing seemingly insignificant issues early on is better than waiting for them to grow into larger, more problematic ones.

In other words, of information

• agnotology, noun. The process of intentionally creating or encouraging doubt or ignorance, for example, by spreading false information.
• articulate, adjective. Expressing oneself readily, fluently, and effectively.
• articulent, adjective. (Of a voice, reader, or spoken delivery) Exhibiting a high degree of precise articulation, rhythmic pacing, and phonetic clarity; marked by controlled cadences, distinct enunciation, and vocal flow.
• biopic, noun. A biographical movie or TV show (a portmanteau of biography + [moving] picture).
• cognitive dissonance, noun. (Psychology) Anxiety or discomfort that results from simultaneously holding contradictory or otherwise incompatible attitudes or beliefs.
• critical, adjective. involving criticism, or skillful judgment as to truth, merit, etc.
• diaspora, noun. The spread or dissemination of something originally confined to a local, homogeneous group, as a language or cultural institution.
• fusty , adjective. Having a stale smell; moldy, musty; old-fashioned or out-of-date.
• intellectual dishonesty, noun. The intentional misrepresentation, omission, or distortion of facts, arguments, or evidence in order to support a desired conclusion or win an argument, even though one knows the truth.
• iterative, adjective. Marked by iteration (i.e., the act of repeating; a repetition).
• kern, verb. To remove a portion of space between (adjacent letters) in preparation for printing.
• kernel, noun. The softer, usually edible part contained in the shell of a nut or the stone of a fruit.
• myopic, adjective. Nearsighted; having myopia; (by extension) shortsighted; lacking foresight.
• nepenthe, noun. A drug or drink having the power to bring forgetfulness of sorrow or trouble; anything inducing a pleasurable sensation of forgetfulness, especially of sorrow or trouble.
• nontraditional, adjective. Not following or conforming to tradition; not adhering to past practices or conventions.
• plenipotentiary, noun. A person invested with full power or authority to transact business on behalf of another.
• quanked, adjective. Overcome by fatigue; extremely exhausted.
• riff, noun. (Jazz music) A melodic phrase, often repeated as an accompaniment or part of an accompaniment for a soloist; a new variation on or a different manifestation of an existing thing or idea (usually followed by “on”).
• splenetic, adjective. Irritable; peevish; spiteful.
• thanatopsis, noun. A view or contemplation of death.
• thanatosis, noun. The act of faking or feigning death.
• tycoon, noun. A person of great wealth, influence, or power; magnate.
• xanthan gum, noun. A polysaccharide that is produced by fermentation of carbohydrates by a gram-negative bacterium.

In other words, including Catholic and Orthodox stuff

• aristocratic, adjective. Of or relating to the nobility; of or relating to government by an aristocracy (cf. demotic).
• bespoke, adjective. Custom-made.
• catechumen, noun. A convert to Christianity receiving training in doctrine and discipline before baptism.
• demotic, adjective. Of or relating to the common people; popular (cf. aristocratic).
• diluvial, adjective. Pertaining to or caused by a flood or deluge.
• diocese, noun. A geographical area or ecclesiastical district under the direction of a single bishop (used in this way by the Roman Catholic church, the Greek Orthodox churches, the Anglican Communion, and others).
• diurnal, adjective. Of or belonging to the daytime (cf. nocturnal).
• Filioque, noun. The Roman Catholic doctrine that the Holy Spirit proceeds from both the Father and the Son (from Latin, “and the son”).
• gainsay, verb. To declare to be false or invalid; to oppose, especially by contradiction.
• glyph, noun. A pictograph or hieroglyph; a sculptured figure or relief carving.
• heresy, noun. An opinion or doctrine at variance with the orthodox or accepted doctrine, especially of a church or religious system.
• Icon, noun. (Theology) A representation or picture of a sacred or sanctified Christian personage, used and venerated - especially in Eastern Orthodoxy.
• Iconoclast, noun. A person who breaks or destroys images, especially those set up for religious veneration.
• Iconophile, noun. A person who religiously venerates icons or images.
• mugwump, noun. A person who is unable to make up his or her mind on an issue (especially in politics); a person who is neutral on a controversial issue.
• nocturnal, adjective. Of or relating to the night (cf. diurnal).
• par excellence, adjective. Being an example of excellence; superior; preeminent.
• parish, noun. An ecclesiastical district having its own church and member of the clergy; (in the state of Louisiana) The equivalent of a county.
• primate, noun. A chief or leader; (Eastern Orthodox) The archbishop (aka patriarch) ranking first among the bishops in each of the separate autocephalous hierarchical churches professing Eastern Orthodoxy.
• pontifex, noun. (Roman religion) A member of the Pontifical College, which was presided over by a chief priest Pontifex Maximus; (Roman Catholic religion) A bishop; the Roman Catholic pope, the Bishop of Rome.
• Quartodecimanism, noun. The celebration of Easter on the fourteenth of Nisan according to the Jewish lunar calendar -- regardless of what day of the week on which it occurred.
• replevy, verb. To take or get back by a writ for replevin (an action regarding personal property which is claimed to be wrongfully taken).
• Theotokos, noun. A title for Mary, the mother of Jesus, used especially in Eastern Orthodoxy.
• Tonsure, noun. The practice of cutting or shaving some or all of the hair on the scalp as a sign of religious devotion or humility.
• voluntarism, noun. The concept that belief is a matter of the will.
• Vulgate, noun. (Latin “common”) A translation of the Bible into Latin from the original Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek (by Jerome, who lived circa AD 342-420).
• zeitgeist, noun. The spirit of the times; the general trend of thought, feeling, or tastes characteristic of a particular period of time.

In other words, caesura-plex

• caesura, noun. A break, especially a sense pause, usually near the middle of a verse.
• Chrislam, noun. A blending of Christian and Islamic principles and practices into a single unifying theological perspective.
• coeval, noun. One of the same age or period; a contemporary in age or active existence; equally old.
• collectivism, noun. A theory or political system based on the principle that all of the farms, factories, and other places of work in a country should be owned by (or for) all the people in that country.
• cozenage, noun. The practice of cozening (i.e., fraud, trickery).
• decoct, verb. To extract the flavor or essence of by boiling.
• dight, verb. To dress; adorn.
• doula, noun. A person, usually a woman, who is not medically trained but who gives help and support to a woman during pregnancy, as well as during and after the birth of her baby.
• eldritch, adjective. Eerie; weird; spooky.
• erstwhile, adverb. In the past, formerly; (adjective) former, previous.
• flood the zone, verb. To put forth a very large quantity of something (idiomatic expression from sports, to apply a large amount of pressure to a particular area of play).
• fustian, noun. A coarse sturdy cloth made of cotton and linen or flax; or, pretentious speech or writing; pompous language.
• hemistich, noun. The exact or approximate half of a stich, or poetic verse or line; an incomplete line, or a line of less than the usual length (cf. stich).
• hysteron proteron, noun. (Rhetoric) A figure of speech in which the conventional order of words, actions, or ideas are revesed; i.e., an inversion of the natural order (Latin, latter as former).
• incunabula, plural noun. (singular, incunabulum) Extant copies of books produced in the earliest stages (before 1501) of printing from movable type; the earliest stages or first traces of anything.
• indent, verb. To set in from the margin (cf. outdent).
• ineluctable, adjective. Incapable of being evaded or avoided; inescapable.
• irredentist, noun. Someone who calls for the seizure or recovery of territories or states currently subject to other countries.
• Jehovah, noun. A name of God in the Old Testament, a rendering of the ineffable name, JHVH, in the Hebrew Scriptures.
• Jehovic, adjective. Of or relating to Jehovah.
• ketovangelist, noun. An individual who promotes and educates about the ketogenic diet and lifestyle (a portmanteau of ketogenic + evangelist).
• leucistic, adjective. Affected by an abnormal condition of reduced pigmentation (i.e., leucism).
• outdent, verb. To set out from the margin (cf. indent).
• skulduggery, noun. Underhanded or unscrupulous behavior; trickery.
• steerage, noun. The inferior or lowest category of passenger accommodation in a ship.
• stich, noun. A verse or line of poetry.
• Texaplex, noun. A triangular region of Texas framed in by the cities of Austin, Dallas–Fort Worth, Houston, and San Antonio, and Interstates 10, 35, and 45 (Texas + plex, from author David Winans; also known as the Texas Triangle).

In other words, beginning with ign-

• ign- prefix. (Latin) Fire.
• ignatia, noun. Dried ripe seeds of the plant Strychnos ignatia (St. Ignatius’s Bean), used as a homeopathic remedy.
• igneous, adjective. (Geology) Produced under conditions involving intense heat; for example, rocks of volcanic origin or rocks crystallized from molten magma.
• ignescent, adjective. Emitting sparks of fire (as certain stones when struck with steel); bursting into flame.
• ignify, verb. (rare) To form into fire; to turn into fire.
• ignimbrite, noun. (Petrology) A fine-grained volcanic rock consisting mainly of welded shards of feldspar and quartz.
• ignition, noun. The act or fact of igniting (i.e., setting on fire); a means or device for igniting.
• ignoble, adjective. Of low character, base; of low quality; inferior; not noble, of humble descent or rank.
• ignominious, adjective. Marked by or attended with ignominy (i.e., disgrace, shame, contempt); contemptible.
• ignoramus, noun. An extremely ignorant person; simpleton,
• ignorant, adjective. Lacking in knowledge or training; unlearned; lacking knowledge or information as to a particular subject or fact; uninformed.
• ignore, verb. To refrain from noticing or recognizing; overlook, neglect.

In other words, -arking, et al.

• barking, present participle of verb bark. (of a dog or other animal) To utter an abrupt, explosive cry or a series of such cries.
• captatio benevolentiae, noun. A rhetorical technique aimed to positive rapport with an the audience at the beginning of a speech (Latin, meaning “capture of goodwill”).
• carking, adjective. Distressful; causing distress, anxiety.
• coterie. noun. A small, exclusive group of people with shared interests or tastes; a club or clique.
• darking, noun. (US slang) The practice of intentionally ignoring someone by turning off one’s phone and ignoring all calls to pursue other activities (especially in a courting context).
• harking, present participle of verb hark. Used to tell someone to listen; also an acronym for hypothesizing after the results are known (coined by social psychologist Norbert Kerr).
• hubris, noun. Overbearing pride, exaggerated self-confidence, or presumption; arrogance.
• marking, noun. A mark, or a number or pattern of marks; the act of a person or thing that marks.
• narking, (US slang) To secretly tell the police or someone in authority about something bad or illegal that someone has done (especially regarding narcotics).
• parking, noun. The act of a person or thing that parks, especially a vehicle; a space in which to park vehicles.
• rapport, noun. A friendly, harmonious relationship; especially a relationship characterized by empathy that makes communication possible or easy.
• rhetor, noun. A teacher or master of rhetoric; an orator.
• sarking, noun. A timber or felt cladding placed over the rafters of a roof before the tiles or slates are fixed in place.
• sparking, noun. (US, somewhat obsolete) The process of courting or wooing someone; that is, pursuing someone romantically.

In other words, auctor to vanguard

• auctor, noun. Author or source (mostly obsolete, except in specialized writings).
• avant-garde, noun. The advance group in any field, especially in the visual, literary, or musical arts, whose works are characterized chiefly by unorthodox and experimental methods. (adjective, unorthodox, daring, or radical)
• avoidant discord, noun. An abrupt relationship departure without explanation.
• campanulate, adjective. Shaped like a bell (as a corolla).
• deepfake, noun. An image, audio, or video altered and manipulated using artificial intelligence techniques to misrepresent someone as doing or saying something that they did not actually do or say (a portmanteau, “deep learning” + “fake”).
• entelechy, noun. A realization or actuality as opposed to a potentiality.
• evert, verb. To overturn, undermine, turn aside.
• fenowed, adjective. (archaic) Moldy; decayed; corrupted.
• fribble, verb. To act in a foolish or frivolous manner; trifle.
• gephyrophobia, noun. The fear of crossing bridges.
• ghosting, noun (aka simmering and icing). (colloquial or slang) The practice of suddenly ending all communication and avoiding contact with another person without any apparent warning or explanation (usually understood so as to ignore any subsequent attempts to communicate).
• graupel, noun. A precipitation that forms when supercooled droplets of water condense on a snowflake; granular snow pellets.
• harp, verb. To play on a harp; harp on (verb phrase) To dwell in speaking or writing upon someone or something repeatedly and to the point of tediousness.
• harping, noun. (Shipbuilding) Any of several horizontal members at the ends of a vessel for holding cant frames in position until the shell planking or plating is attached.
• misanthrope, noun. A person who hates or distrusts humankind.
• panary, noun. A bakery. (adjective) of or relating to bread or breadmaking.
• pars, noun. A part; portion of a larger structure (usually Medical; e.g. used in medical names and descriptions. Latin word meaning part).
• quinquagenarian, noun. A person who is 50 years old, or whose age is between 50 and 60.
• repdigit, noun. A natural number composed of repeated instances of the same digit in a positional number system (a portmanteau of repeated + digit).
• smithereens, noun (plural noun). Fragments or splintered pieces; bits (esp. a lot of smashed pieces).
• vanguard, noun (aka van). The foremost division or the front part of an army; advance guard; the forefront in any movement, field, activity, or the like.

In other words, ab initio to zenith

• ab initio, adverb. (Latin) From the beginning.
• android, noun. An automaton resembling a human being in form.
• anime, noun. An artistic style heavily used in, and associated with, Japanese animation, and that has also been adopted by a comparatively low number of animated works from other countries.
• anomaly, noun. Deviation or departure from the normal or common order, form, or rule; something that is peculiar, irregular, abnormal, or difficult to classify.
• anomie, noun. Social instability caused by erosion of standards and values.
• arete, noun. The aggregate of qualities, as valor and virtue, making up good character.
• aspiration, noun. A strong desire to achieve something high or great.
• arrabon event, phrase. Something that is a foretaste of that which is to come (from the Greek ἀρραβὼν, meaning earnest, guarantee, pledge).
• corollary, noun. A proposition that follows with little or no proof required from one already proven.
• dendroid, adjective. Resembling a tree in form; branching like a tree.
• go rogue, idiom. To stop being obedient or predictable; to behave in a way that is not allowed or expected.
• inculcate, verb. To implant by repeated statement or admonition; teach persistently and earnestly.
• inoculate, verb. To introduce a serum or antigenic substance into, especially to produce or boost immunity to a specific disease; to infectious material into (either literally or figuratively).
• keelhaul, verb. To rebuke severely or harshly; (originally Nautical) to punish by dragging under the keel of a ship.
• litotes, noun. (Rhetoric) Understatement, especially when an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary; e.g., as in “not a little” used to mean “a lot.”
• noctambulist, noun. A person who walks while asleep; sleepwalker.
• poly-scriptura, noun. Many scriptures (from poly “many” + scriptura “scripture”). A recently coined phrase used by some to describe those Christians who find authority in many different translations of the scriptures.
• praetorship, noun. The office of a praetor (a type of office in the Roman Republic).
• preceptorship, noun. The position or office of a preceptor, that is, a teacher.
• prorogue, verb. To defer or postpone.
• raison d'être, noun. (French) Reason for existence.
• rogue, verb. To live or act as a scoundrel, vagabond, or scamp.
• zenith, noun. The point on the celestial sphere that is directly above the observer; the upper region of the sky.

Bible Word Books

The following are books I have found online that purport to give definitions of old and archaic words in the Authorized King James translation of the Bible. I am compiling them here in one list, ordered chronologically.

• A Short Explanation of Obsolete Words in Our Version of the Bible, and of Such as Are There Used in a Peculiar of Uncommon Sense -- (Henry Cotton, Oxford: S. Collingwood, 1832)
• A Glossary of the Obsolete and Unusual Words and Phrases of the Holy Scriptures, in the Authorized English Version -- (J. Jameson, London: Wertheim and MacIntosh, 1850)
• Motes Upon Crystal: Or Obsolete Words of the Authorized Version of the Holy Bible, Critically and Chronologically Considered, Part I -- (Kirby Trimmer, London: Bell and Daldy, 1864)
• The Bible Word-Book: a Glossary of Old English Bible Words -- (Jonathan Eastwood, William Aldis Wright, London: Macmillan and Co., 1866)
• The Bible Word-Book: a Glossary of Archaic Words and Phrases in the Authorized Version of the Bible and the Book of Common Prayer -- (William Aldis Wright, London: Macmillan and Co., 1884)
• Bible Words That Have Changed in Meaning -- (Luther Allan Weigle, New York, NY: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1955)
• The Bible Word Book: Concerning Obsolete or Archaic Words in the King James Version of the Bible -- (Ronald Bridges and Luther A. Weigle, New York, NY: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1960)
• King James Bible Word Book -- (Martin H. Manser, editor. Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 2002)
• Unique Words of the King James Bible -- (Jonathan Wheatley, Meadville, PA: Christian Faith Publishing, 2021) (Partial view)

Some of these are intended more as a help for the readers of the Authorized Version, while some may tend to be more critical of it. (For example, I think Bridges and Weigle hope to lead readers to eventually use the Revised Standard Version.) Additionally, be a Berean; search and study the definitions to see whether they are so in every case.

Thanks to Christopher Yetzer for information on the J. Jameson book.

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.

In other words, a to v

• advect, verb. To move by the process of advection (the horizontal flow of atmospheric properties).
• convect, verb. To transfer heat or a fluid by convection (the vertical transport of atmospheric properties).
• fiat, noun. An authoritative command or order to do something; an effectual decree.
• desuetude, noun. (In law) a doctrine or principle that that long and continued non-use of a law or statute renders it invalid.
• expurgate, verb. To clean up, remove impurities, especially to expunge objectionable materials from something before publication or presentation.
• fatuous, adjective. Foolish; inane; silly; complacently or inanely foolish (applied both to persons and to their acts).
• innocuous, adjective. Not causing disapproval; lacking intent or capacity to injure; harmless.
• mendacious, adjective. Telling lies, especially habitually; dishonest; lying; untruthful.
• nocebo effect, noun. When a patient’s negative expectations for a treatment cause the treatment to have a worse effect than it otherwise would have. Opposite of placebo.
• parsimony, noun. Unusual or excessive frugality; thrift; extreme economy or stinginess.
• persnickety, adjective. Overparticular or fussy about trivial details; fastidious; demanding.
• piffle, noun. Nonsense; trivial or senseless talk.
• placebo effect, noun. When a patient’s positive expectations for a treatment cause the treatment to have a helpful effect (especially in reference to a placebo, an inactive “look-alike” treatment). Opposite of nocebo.
• rodomontade, noun. Pretentious boasting; bluster; a bragging speech.
• saudade, noun. A deep emotional state of melancholic longing for a person or thing that is absent; yearning for something indefinite and indefinable (from Portuguese).
• scriptorium, noun. A room set aside for the copying, writing, or illuminating of manuscripts and records (especially in a medieval monastery).
• sine die, adverb. Without a day specified for a future meeting; indefinitely (from Latin, without day).
• teleology, noun. The philosophical interpretation of natural phenomena as exhibiting purpose or design.
• telestich, noun. A short poem in which the last letters of each successive line form a word or name.
• verisimilitude, noun. The quality of appearing to be true or real; something that has the appearance of being true or real.