Incoming Vocabulary

My latest finds from the last few books I have read and some from my dictionary app daily doses, too. Faves in bold...

• wastage - loss, decrease, or destruction of something; especially avoidable loss
• envisage - to view or regard in a certain way in advance of realization
• rancor - bitter, deep-seated ill will
• fey - fated to die; marked by a foreboding of death or calamity
• muckraking - to search out and publicly expose misconduct of prominent person/business
• withal - together with this; besides
• dilettante - an admirer or lover of the arts
• bespoke - custom-made
• hale - free from defect, disease, or infirmity; sound
• gloaming - twilight; dusk
• twixt - between
• tractable - capable of being easily led, taught, or controlled; docile
• metier - vocation; trade; an area of activity in which one excels; forte
• plenitude - the quality or state of being full; completeness
• desultory - marked by a lack of definite plan, regularity, or purpose; not connected with main subject
• blench - to draw back or turn aside from lack of courage; flinch
• logomachy - a dispute over or about words; a controversy marked by verbiage
• carp - to find fault or complain querulously
• adust - scorched, burned
• biddable - easily led, taught, or controlled; docile
• scarp - a line of cliffs produced by faulting or erosion
• ennui - a feeling of weariness and dissatisfaction; boredom
• plangent - having a loud reverberating sound; having an expressive and plaintive quality
• thimblerig - to cheat by trickery; to swindle
• specious - having deceptive attraction or allure; having a false look of truth or genuineness
• tenebrous - shut off from the light; dark or murky; hard to understand
• agon - conflict; especially between chief characters in literature
• fug - the stuffy atmosphere of a poorly ventilated space
• phiz - face
• arrant - being notoriously without moderation; extreme
• costive - slow in action or expression; not generous; stingy