What Wonderful Words!

Good heavens this latest chunk of words I have collected is a good one!  Faves in bold.

• hegemony - leadership or dominance, especially a country/social group
• liminal - relating to a transitional stage in a process; position of boundary
• transmogrify - transform in a surprising or magical manner
• psalmody - the singing of songs or similar sacred hymns/chants
• atavistic - characterized by reversion to something ancient or ancestral
• eldritch - weird or sinister or ghostly
• dragoon - coerce into doing something
• abraded - scrape or wear away by friction or erosion
• suserration - whispering, murmuring, or rustling
• fatuous - silly and pointless
• molder - slowly decay or disintegrate, especially because of neglect
• apocryphal - of doubtful authenticity, although widely circulated as being true
• caesura - an interruption or break
• vulpine - relating to foxes; crafty or cunning
• collocation - the action of placing things side by side or in position
• ratiocination - the process of exact thinking; reasoning
• vernal - of, in, or appropriate to spring
• lightsome - merry and carefree; gracefully nimble
• drub - hit or beat (someone) repeatedly
• flummery - empty compliments; nonsense
• revenant - a person who has returned, especially from the dead
• recondite - of a subject little known; abstruse
• abtruse - difficult to understand; obscure
• jeremiad - a long, mournful complain or lamentation; list of woes
• hamartia - a fatal flaw leading to a downfall of a tragic hero/heroine
• cognomen - a distinguishing nickname; typically passed from father to son
• knackered - tire out; exhaust
• propinquity/ous - nearby; close at hand
• cognate - related; connected; from the same original word/root
• cairn - mound of rough stones built as memorial or landmark
• subsumed - include or absorb in something else
• provenance - the place of origin/earliest known history of something
• weir - low dam built across a river to raise level of water upstream
• sward - an expanse of short grass
• nous - practical intelligence; the mind or intellect
• nonce - word/expression coined for use on one occasion
• secco - technique of painting on dry plaster w/pigment mixed in water
• chockablock - crammed full of people or things
• pule - cry querulously or weakly
• propitious - indicating a good chance of success; favorable
• animadversion - criticism or censure
• brio - vigor or vivacity of style or performance
• recidivism - the tendency of a convicted criminal to reoffence
• frowsty - having a stale, warm, and stuffy atmosphere
• sylph - an imaginary spirit of the air
• quaaludes - a sedative or sleep-inducing drugs
• spile - large, heavy timber driven into the ground to support at superstructure
• apian - relating to bees