Page 85

10,009 Words

Blackguard

✍️ Word: Blackguard

📚 Definition: To vituperate; to portray as a scoundrel

🗣 Pronunciation: blakkuart

Triduum

✍️ Word: Triduum

📚 Definition: Period of three days of prayer preceding Roman Catholic feasts

🗣 Pronunciation: tritum

Dromic

✍️ Word: Dromic

📚 Definition: Of, like or pertaining to a racecourse

🗣 Pronunciation: tromik

Syncrasy

✍️ Word: Syncrasy

📚 Definition: Combination

🗣 Pronunciation: snkras

Substruct

✍️ Word: Substruct

📚 Definition: To build beneath; to lay as a foundation

🗣 Pronunciation: substrukt

Corposant

✍️ Word: Corposant

📚 Definition: St. Elmo’s fire or similar electrical discharge

🗣 Pronunciation: korposant

Setiform

✍️ Word: Setiform

📚 Definition: Shaped like a bristle

🗣 Pronunciation: setiform

Philter

✍️ Word: Philter

📚 Definition: Love-potion or charm; a drug to produce some magical effect

🗣 Pronunciation: filter

Desudation

✍️ Word: Desudation

📚 Definition: Extreme sweating

🗣 Pronunciation: tesutaxion

Eyot

✍️ Word: Eyot

📚 Definition: Small island in a lake or river

🗣 Pronunciation: eyot

Tenebrific

✍️ Word: Tenebrific

📚 Definition: Producing darkness

🗣 Pronunciation: tenebrifik

Oakum

✍️ Word: Oakum

📚 Definition: Old ropes untwisted for caulking the seams of ships

🗣 Pronunciation: oakum

Ariolation

✍️ Word: Ariolation

📚 Definition: Divination in general

🗣 Pronunciation: ariolaxion

Wassail

✍️ Word: Wassail

📚 Definition: Toast to someone’s health; to go caroling or carousing; spiced ale

🗣 Pronunciation: wasail

Immeritous

✍️ Word: Immeritous

📚 Definition: Undeserving

🗣 Pronunciation: imeritous

Environ

✍️ Word: Environ

📚 Definition: Around; about; in the vicinity of

🗣 Pronunciation: enfiron

Vorticist

✍️ Word: Vorticist

📚 Definition: Painter who expresses complexity of machinery through art

🗣 Pronunciation: fortisist

Ornithic

✍️ Word: Ornithic

📚 Definition: Of, like or pertaining to birds

🗣 Pronunciation: ornithik

Spectrology

✍️ Word: Spectrology

📚 Definition: Study of ghosts

🗣 Pronunciation: spektroloj

Abseil

✍️ Word: Abseil

📚 Definition: To descend a rock face using a double rope

🗣 Pronunciation: abseil