Ohmygoodness, Words!!

I did a LOT of reading over Christmas break.  So, naturally, I have a LOT of new words saved along the way.  I looked them all up, of course; I do that right when I come upon them in my reading.  But there are SO MANY, that I will let myself off that defining hook and just list the words in their multitude alone.  I will bold and define my faves though, because ... faves!

• cozen - to deceive, win over, or induce to do something by artful coaxing and wheedling
• scupper
• macerated
• corody
• comport -  to behave in a manner conformable to what is right, proper, or expected
• interdict - a prohibitory decree
• tensile - relating to or involving tension
• leonine - relating to, suggestive of, or resembling a lion
• oubliette
• virago - a woman of great stature, strength, and courage
• gravid
• turbid
• paywall
• slattern - an untidy, slovenly woman
• simian
• patronymic
• cartomancy
• dray
• duvetyn
• discarnate - having no physical body
• parturient
• pelisse
• carom - to strike and rebound
• immolate
• gambit - a remark intended to start a conversation or make a telling point; a calculated move
• bestiary
• fulminate
• pedant - one who makes a show of knowledge or who unduly emphasizes minutiae in presentation
• appurtenances - accessory objects
• chatelaine
• weft
• detritus
• sere - being dried and withered; threadbare
• ingot
• carbuncle
• repartee - a quick and witty reply
• chivy - to tease or annoy with persistent petty attacks
• crosier
• lammergeyer
• demesne
• apace - at a quick pace; swiftly
• screed - a lengthy discourse
• canorous - pleasant sounding
• abjure - to renounce upon oath; to reject solemnly
• sumpter
• suppurated
• nimbuse
• errant - traveling, or given to traveling
• stripling - youth
• pap
• lambent
• hirsute - hairy
• mendacious - given to deception or falsehood or divergence from absolute truth
• coventry - a state of ostracism or exclusion
• sedge
• neuroasthenic
• obdurate - stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing; hardened in feelings
• hugger-mugger - secrecy
• nob
• stentorian - extremely loud
• pettish - fretful, peevish
• squiffy - intoxicated, drunk
• skivvy - a female domestic servant
• rotter - a thoroughly objectionable person
• ruction - a noisy fight
• dotty - mentally unbalanced; amiably eccentric; amusingly absurd
• frowzy
• vegetal
• gimcrack - a showy object of little use or value
• expostulate -  to reason earnestly with a person for purposes of dissuasion
• punnet
• bint
• spoor
• arrondissement
• bijou -  a small dainty usually ornamental piece of delicate workmanship
• cadre
• priggish - offending/irritating by observance of proprieties in a pointed manner or to an obnoxious degree