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• Exotic words with definitions:
• Inchoate – 1. (adjective) not yet completed or fully developed; rudimentary. / 2. (adjective) just begun; incipient. / 3. (adjective) not organized; lacking order: an inchoate mass of ideas on the subject.
• Vomerine – 1. (noun) Anatomy. a bone of the skull in most vertebrates, in humans forming a large part of the septum between the right and left cavities of the nose.
• Batrachian – 1. (adjective) belonging or pertaining to the Batrachia, a former group comprising the amphibians, and sometimes restricted to the salientians. / 2. (noun) an amphibian, esp. a salientian.
• Nictating – 1. (adjective) of the eyes, winking or blinking
• Coruscating – 1. (verb) to emit vivid flashes of light; sparkle; scintillate; gleam.
• Desultory – 1. (adjective) lacking in consistency, constancy, or visible order, disconnected; fitful: desultory conversation. / 2. (adjective) digressing from or unconnected with the main subject; random: a desultory remark.
• atavistic – 1. (adjective) Of, pertaining to, or characterized by atavism; reverting to or suggesting the characteristics of a remote ancestor or primitive type.
• windrow – 1. (noun) a row or line of hay raked together to dry before being raked into heaps. / 2. (noun) any similar row, as of sheaves of grain, made for the purpose of drying. / 3. (noun) a row of dry leaves, dust, etc., swept together by the wind. / 4. (verb) to arrange in a windrow.
• cestus – 1. (noun) a girdle or belt, esp. as worn by women of ancient Greece. / 2. (noun) a hand covering made of leather strips and often covered with metal studs, worn by boxers.
• revetment – 1. (noun) a facing of masonry or the like, esp. for protecting an embankment. / 2. (noun) an ornamental facing, as on a common masonry wall, of marble, face brick, tiles, etc.
• atavism – 1. (noun) the reappearance in an individual of characteristics of some remote ancestor that have been absent in intervening generations; an individual embodying such a reversion. / 2. (noun) reversion to an earlier type; throwback.
• menhir – 1. (noun) an upright monumental stone standing either alone or with others, as in an alignment, found chiefly in Cornwall and Brittany.
• cromlech – 1. (noun) a megalithic chamber tomb.
• effluvium – 1. (noun) a slight or invisible exhalation or vapor, esp. one that is disagreeable or noxious.
• redoubt – 1. (noun) an isolated work forming a complete enclosure of any form, used to defend a prominent point. / 2. an independent earthwork built within a permanent fortification to reinforce it.
• enceinte – 1. (adjective) pregnant; with child.
• hoary – 1. (adjective) gray or white with age: an old dog with a hoary muzzle. / 2. (adjective) ancient or venerable: hoary myths. / 3. (adjective) tedious from familiarity; stale
• legate – 1. (noun) an ecclesiastic delegated by the pope as his representative. / 2. (noun) an assistant to a general or to a consul or magistrate, in the Roman government of any army or a Roman province; a commander of a legion / 3. (noun) a provincial Roman governor of senatorial rank appointed by the emperor.
• leman – 1. (noun) a sweetheart; lover; beloved. / 2. (noun) a mistress.
• rowan – 1. (noun) the European mountain ash, Sorbus aucuparia, having pinnate leaves and clusters of bright red berries.
• mephitic – 1. (adjective) offensive to the smell. / 2. (adjective) noxious; pestilential; poisonous.
• convolvulus – 1. (noun) any plant belonging to the genus Convolvulus, of the morning glory family, comprising twining or prostrate plants having trumpet-shaped flowers.
• fusty – 1. (adjective) having a stale smell; moldy; musty: fusty rooms that were in need of a good airing. / 2. (adjective) old-fashioned or out-of-date, as architecture, furnishings, or the like / 3.(adjective) stubbornly conservative or old-fashioned; fogyish.
• riving – 1. (verb) to tear or rend apart; to separate by striking; split; cleave.
• ophidian – 1. (adjective) belonging or pertaining to the suborder Ophidia (Serpentes), comprising the snakes / 2. (noun) a snake
• nyctalopia – 1. (noun) night blindness; Aa condition of the eyes in which vision is normal in daylight or other strong light but is abnormally weak or completely lost at night or in dim light.
• foetid – 1. (adjective) fetid
• verdigris – 1. (noun) a green or bluish patina formed on copper, brass, or bronze surfaces exposed to the atmosphere for long periods of time, consisting principally of basic copper sulfate.
• excrescence – 1. (noun) an abnormal outgrowth, usually harmless, on an animal or vegetable body. / 2. (noun) a normal outgrowth, as hair or horns. 3. (noun) any disfiguring addition.
• actinian – 1. (adjective) belonging or pertaining to the order or suborder Actiniaria, comprising the sea anemones. 2. (noun) any sea anemone.
• absquatulate – 1. (verb) to leave hurriedly, suddenly, or secretly.
• filipendulous – 1. (adjective) hanging by a thread