Epulation [EP-yoo-lay-shun] (n.) - A lavish banquet, feasting, or the act of feasting, often with a hint of excess or ritual pomp. Used in a sentence: “The princess, not especially fond of theatrical excess, nevertheless enjoyed a fine birthday epulation worthy of a Renaissance court.”

Falcate [FAL-kayt] (adj.) - Curved or crescent shaped; hooked. From Latin “falcatus” from “falx / “falc-” (sickle) Used in a sentence: “The scythe’s falcate edge she left behind with scratch and tear that mightie wights had beene astonied much to spy—his robe was rent and cleene.”

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Espièglerie [eh-spyeh-gluh-REE] (n.) - Prankish behavior; mischief; frolicsome roguishness. Used in a sentence: “Espièglerie curled around her like the smoke of frankincense, a playful ghost whispering that life was too short for poetry that didn’t sting a little.”

Pot-valiant [POT-val-yunt] (adj.) - Courageous as a result of being drunk. Used in a sentence: "No man so meek but that a full flagon maketh him fierce; for wyne is the smyth that forgeþ fooles’ valour, and many a pot-valiant knyght hath found his bed in a ditch ere dawn.”

Kirtle [KUR-tul] (n.) - A woman's gown or outer petticoat; a man's tunic. From Old English “cyrtel” (a man's tunic; a woman's skirt) from Old Norse “kyrtill” (tunic) Used in a sentence: “No dragon nor Saracen so fearsome as a dame in a green kirtle with mischief in her smile.”

Gilly-gaupus [GIL-ee-GAW-pus] (n.) - A tall, awkward, foolish, or silly person.

Bavian [BAY-vee-un] (n.) - An incompetent, insignificant or unskilled poet. Used in a sentence: “If I have to sit through another stanza of that bloviating bavian’s so-called poetry, I swear I’m going to arrange a formal introduction between a chukka boot and his sitzfleisch!”

Appetency [AP-ih-ten-see] (n.) - A longing desire or hunger; a natural tendency or affinity. Used in a sentence: “There are many of us. Some have an appetency for dreams, some for memories, some hunger for emotions—such as fear. Those are the ones I avoid.”

Eidolon [ahy-DOH-lun] (n.) - A spirit-image of a person (living or dead); a shade or phantom look-alike. Used in a sentence: “They didn’t know the word for it, but the dancer in the mask wasn’t a copycat — he was an eidolon, a ghost born of rhythm and style from the thirty-sixth chamber.”

Coulrophobia [KOHL-ruh-FOH-bee-yuh] (n.) - An abnormal or exaggerated fear of clowns. Example Sentence: “From that evening forward, Johnnie suffered from what the school counselor, with professional detachment, labeled acute coulrophobia.”

Athanasia [ath-uh-NEY-zhuh] (n.) - The quality or state of deathlessness; immortality. Used in a sentence: “After decades of clandestine research, innumerable failed tinctures, and the unfortunate disintegration of several test subjects, his Elixir of Athanasia was complete.”

Eldritch [EL-drich] (adj.) - Hideous, ghastly, weird; spooky. Used in a sentence: “Things have taken a discommodious turn, and the lovely garden path has become so overgrown with eldritch weeds as to make it nigh unto impossible to traverse.”

Ostentiferous [os-ten-TIF-er-us] (adj.) - That which brings omens, monsters, or strange manifestations. Used in a sentence: “The book’s ostentiferous properties had rendered it too perilous for scholarship and too sacred for destruction.”

Phantasmagoria [fan-taz-muh-GOR-ee-uh] (n.) - A crowd of phantoms; a series of shifting images or scenes. Used in a sentence: “From that whirl of light and shadow unfurled a phantasmagoria of forms — a solemn procession of the half-remembered and the long-dead.”

Perhorresce [pur-huh-RES] (v.) - To tremble or shudder convulsively, typically as a result of fear or revulsion. Used in a sentence: “No longer able to master his terror, Clarence perhorresced violently as his wife’s moldering hand — redolent of the crypt — caressed his cheek.”

Yakhdan [YAK-don] (n.) - A container for transporting ice, pulled by a pack animal. Use: “Inglenook radioed ahead as they neared New York Harbor, requesting a sufficiently capacious yakhdan suitable for the transport of a large perishable specimen to the American Museum of Natural History.”

Ampullaceous [am-pyew-LEY-shus] (adj.) - Shaped like a flask or bladder. - Resembling an ampulla. Use: “Three days after her mysterious disappearance, the persnickety grimalkin was found languidly grooming herself atop the ampullaceous urn that contained what was left of Great-Aunt Hilda.”

Collywobbles [KOL-ee-wah-buls] (n.) -Stomach pain or queasiness associated with looseness of the bowels. Used in a sentence: “Half the parish came down with spumiferous collywobbles after sampling Aunt Gertrude’s gelatinous aspic tart — it was likely the anchovies that had gone a trifle off.”

Nucivorous [nyoo-SIV-ur-rus] (adj.) - (of animals) gaining sustenance primarily or exclusively from nuts. Use: “Unable to endure Aunt Penumbra’s frenzied triturations a moment longer, Uncle Eustace reposited her in the garden shed with sufficient nuts to appease her nucivorous cravings.”

Truckle [TRUK-ul] (v.) - To tamely submit or yield obsequiously; to submissively capitulate. To cringe. Used in a sentence: “Miss Penworthy, who had never truckled to anyone in her life, met the vicar’s withering glare with the serene malice of a cat polishing its whiskers.”

Expostulate [eks-POS-tyoo-leyt] (v.) - To reason earnestly with someone against something that person intends to do or has done; to remonstrate. Used in a sentence: “I overheard Mortimer’s wife expostulating at great length against his objectionable proclivity for dressing as Queen Victoria.”

Berceuse [behr-SYOOZ] (n.) - A song sung to lull a baby to sleep; a cradlesong. From French “berceuse” (cradle-song, woman who rocks an infant) from “bercer” (to rock) Used in a sentense: “He finally fell asleep after the fifth berceuse, my husband, that is; but the baby was still wide awake.”

Solipsism [SOL-ip-siz-um] (n.) -Extreme preoccupation with one's feelings, desires, etc. -Self-centeredness. Used in a sentence: “Her solipsism was not the loud, brash sort, but the quiet, ecclesiastical kind—like a cathedral built entirely for the purpose of echoing her own opinions.”

Benignant [buh-NIG-nunt] (adj.) - Kindly, gracious, and benevolent. From “benign” (exerting a good influence) on model of its opposite, “malignant” Used in a sentence: “He offered a benignant smile that suggested he might forgive you for existing—so long as you stopped doing it so loudly.”

Prevaricate [pruh-VAIR-ih-keyt] (v.) - To deliberately evade the truth; to speak misleadingly; to lie. Used in a sentence: "Poor Pinocchio’s pernicious propensity to prevaricate promotes probiscal protuberance prolongation.”

Rebarbative [ree-BAR-buh-tiv] (adj.) - Causing annoyance, irritation, or aversion; repellent. - Unattractive and objectionable. - Fearsome; forbidding. Use: “Harold’s rebarbative disposition lingered in the air like mothballs and melancholy; even the dusty old taxidermy seemed to recoil.”

Cultrivorous [kul-TRIV-uh-rus] (adj.) - Pertaining to one who devours knives. - Related to, or descriptive of the act of swallowing, or pretending to swallow knives.

Leptosomatic [LEP-tuh-soh-MAT-ik] (adj.) - Having a slender, thin, or frail body. Used in a sentence: ”Lisbeth’s leptosomatic frame was ideal for fainting, swooning, and otherwise collapsing decoratively upon the nearest chaise longue.”

Goliard [GO-lee-ard] (n.) - One of a class of scholarly medieval wandering monks who amused their superiors with Latin poetry and merry jests. Origin uncertain. Sentence: “When the goliard sang of Eve’s apple and Adam’s ale, even the nuns behind the screen did giggle through their veils.”

Triturate [TRICH-uh-reyt] (v.) - To reduce to fine particles or powder by rubbing, grinding, bruising; to pulverize. - To chew or grind (food) thoroughly. (n.) - The result of trituration.

Spirituelle [speer-uh-chuh-WEL] (adj.) - Having or marked by a refined and especially sprightly or witty nature. Used in a sentence: “Beneath the severe tailoring and modest coiffure hid a most alluringly spirituelle creature—impishly selcouth, mischievously malapert, and brazenly aware of it.”

Crunt [krunt] (n.) - A blow on the head with a club. Used in a sentence: “Elbert, having been the unlucky recipient of a crunt during yesterday’s ballgame with the neighborhood boys, awoke to find a most inconvenient lump he’d soon have to justify to his fretful mother.”

Peccavi [pek-AH-vee] (int.) & (n.) - A word used as a confession or acknowledgement of one's guilt or responsibility for a mistake or wrongdoing – e.g. “My bad!”.

Sphygmomanometer [sfig-moh-muh-NOM-ih-tur] (n.) - An instrument used for the measuring of one’s blood pressure. Used in a sentence: “Sir, that’s not the propper appendage to check your blood pressure—and in any case, we don’t even have a sphygmomanometer cuff small enough for it.”

Rimbombo [rim-BOM-bo] (n.) - A deep loud reverberation; a deeply resonant or thunderous sound; a booming noise. Used in a sentence: “He perched, tightened, and prayed for discreet flatulence, but his wooden chair betrayed him with a resonant rimbombo, bringing the restaurant to a startled hush.”

Batrachophagous [BAT-​ruh-​KOH-f​uh-​jus] (adj.) - Feeding on frogs; pertaining to one that devours frogs. Used in a sentence: “I am not, nor do I harbor any desire to be batrachophagous, and as such, I must decline your dubious offer of fine French cuisine.”

Velocipede [vuh-LAH-suh-peed] (n.) - An early form of the bicycle, usually having two or three wheels, that is propelled by the rider. A ‘bone-shaker’. Used in a sentence: “The velocipede was discovered days later, leaning gently against a locked door, its handlebars inexplicably damp.”

Paludamentum [puh-loo-duh-MEN-tum] (n.) - A royal cloak modeled after ones that were worn by Roman generals and chief officers. Used in a sentence: “Just a tad overdressed for the debutante ball, Lester wore a rich scarlet paludamentum that was fastened by an ornate clasp over his left shoulder.”

Woebegone [WOH-buh-gon] (adj.) - Sad or miserable; afflicted by misfortune or grief. Used in a sentence: “Wendy, the woebegone widow, wandered wistfully through the withered winter woods and wondered whether warmth was but a whimsical wish.”

Cirogrille [SUR-uh-gril] (n.) - Middle English word for hedgehog.

Macarism [MAK-uh-riz-um] (n.) - A philosophy in which one derives their pleasure from the inspiration of joy in others; a beatitude. Used in a sentence: “He lived a life of macarism, quick to notice the kindness of a neighbor, and to turn them into moments of gentle celebration.”

Schmaltz [shmalts] (n.) - Extreme or excessive sentimentality, esp. in the arts or entertainment. Used in a sentence: “When Lady Pettigrew reeled theatrically into the footman’s arms, the air thickened with schmaltz so thick it might have been ladled over the aspic.”

Bookwright [BUHK-rahyt] (n.) - A writer of books; an author. - A printer or binder of books. Used in a sentence: “I'm a bookwright in the truest sense because I write novels, print them using a letterpress, then painstakingly bind them in embossed leather with gold accents… I don’t date much.”

Mirliton [MUR-lit-on] (n.) - The eunuch flute, a kind of kazoo or membranophone. A borrowing from French. Used in a sentence: “They ended up firing that guy who was always goofing around with the mirliton after he did a little ‘oom-pa-pa’ routine to mimic the boss’s walk as he was strolling by.”

Schizocarp [SKIT-so-karp] (n.) - Dry fruits which break up into two or more one-seeded mericarps without dehiscing such as the winged seed pod of maple trees. Used in a sentence: “Your selcouth coiffure, dear, reminds one of a schizocarp in its final spin.”

Cachinnate [KAK-uh-neyt] (v.) - To laugh loudly, or convulsively. From the Latin verb “cachinnare” (to laugh loudly) Used in a sentence: “Despite the solemn occasion, Rafferty found it impossible to resist the urge to cachinnate at the remarks of the addlepated dotard.”

Grog-Blossom [GROG-blos-um] (n.) - Vascular dilation causing redness and enlargement of the nose or face of persons who drink ardent spirits to excess; rhinophyma. Used in a sentence: “The magistrate, eyeing the witness’s grog-blossom, required no further proof of habitual intemperance.”

Excogitate [eks-KOJ-it-ayt] (v.) - To think out; to construct, frame, or develop in thought; to contrive, devise. Used in a sentence: “The unusual situation required a creative solution, so I sat down to excogitate until a sufficiently workable solution presented itself.”

Homodoxian [ho-muh-DOKS-ee-un] (adj.) & (n.) - A person who just happens to have the good sense to share the same opinion as you. Used in a sentence: “It’s not that I surround myself with groveling yes-men; I simply have a remarkable talent for attracting—and then hiring—homodoxians.”