Verbiage

These defined and synthetic words and others will appear in the content of Ephemeral Respite to encourage broadening of players vocabulary.

Extant words:

X Abominable - Causing moral revulsion

Aboriginal - Inhabiting or existing in a land from the earliest times or from before the arrival of colonists; indigenous.

X Adnate - Joined by having grown together.

Acerbic - sharp and forthright.

Aeon - An indefinite and very long period of time, often a period exaggerated for humorous or rhetorical effect.

Allegory - A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.

Allusion - An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.

Altricial - organism hatched or born in an undeveloped state and requiring care and feeding by the parents. Antonym of precocial.

Amphibolous - Having a grammatical structure that allows of two interpretations; equivocal.

X Anathema - Something or someone that one vehemently dislikes

Anatopism - something out of place

X Anhedonia - Inability to feel pleasure.

Antecede - Precede

Anxiolytic - Drug used to reduce anxiety

Aplomb - self confidence or assurance, especially in a demanding situation

Arbitrator - An independent person or body officially appointed to settle a dispute.

Arborescence - Resembling a tree in form and branching structure.

X Atavism - reappearance of a previous characteristic

X Athodyd - simple tubular engine

Atomism - A theoretical approach that regards something as interpretable through analysis into distinct, separable, and independent elementary components

Auspicious - Conducive to success; favorable

Autochthonous - indigenous rather than descended from migrants or colonists.

Avuncular - Uncle-like

Banal - So lacking in originality as to be obvious and boring

Bedouin - A nomadic Arab of the desert

Bereaved - a person who has suffered the death of someone they loved; "the bereaved do not always need to be taken care of"

Bikeshedding - Spending disproportionate time and energy spent over an insignificant or unimportant detail of a larger concern.

Bivouac - A temporary camp without tents or cover, used esp. by soldiers or mountaineers

Bloodsport - Bloodsport or blood sport is any sport or entertainment that involves violence against animals.

Bloomery - Rudimentary iron smelter

Bogan - Slang used to describe a person of unrefined or unsophisticated class.

Bombogenesis - Rapid decrease in barometric pressure (intensification of storms)

Braggadocio - boastful or arrogant behavior.

Briocolage - the construction or creation of a work from a diverse range of things that happen to be available

Bucolic - relating to the pleasant aspects of the countryside and country life.

Calamitous - catastrophic

X Callipygian - Having well-shaped buttocks

Calyx - husk or pod

Cambion - half-human offspring of a demon and a human.

Camphor - A white, volatile, crystalline substance with an aromatic smell and bitter taste, occurring in certain essential oils

X Carceral - of or relating to a jail or prison

Celestial sphere - An imaginary sphere of infinite radius against which the celestial bodies appear to be projected

X Chattel - A personal possession

X Chattels - Items that are found within premises and are not affixed to the premises, which may be removed.

Chippage - The fact or an instance of chipping.

Clandestineness - Secrecy

Compersion - Deriving joy from another's pleasure.

Concomitant - accompanying in an incidental way

Conniption - a fit of rage or hysterics.

Contranym - a word with two opposite meanings, e.g. weather or sanction

Contumacious - Stubbornly or willfully disobedient to authority.

X Copasetic - In excellent order.

Cosmos - The universe seen as a well-ordered whole.

Courageous - Not deterred by danger or pain; brave.

Cytokine storm - Also known as cytokine cascade and hypercytokinemia, is a potentially fatal immune reaction consisting of a positive feedback loop between cytokines and immune cells, with highly elevated levels of various cytokines.

Deasil - Clockwise or skilled.

Deja reve - already dreamed

Decolletage - the upper part of a woman's torso, between her waist and neck, comprising her neck, shoulders, back and chest, that is exposed by the style of her clothing. Most commonly applied to a neckline which reveals or emphasizes cleavage.

Delegate - Entrust (a task or responsibility) to another person, typically one who is less senior than oneself

X Degenerate - Having lost the physical, mental, or moral qualities considered normal and desirable; showing evidence of decline.

Demiurge - A being responsible for the creation of the universe.

Denouement - The final part of a play, movie, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved.

Deorphanization - Process of describing orphan receptors whose endogenous ligand has been identified.

Deprecate - express disapproval of.

Derrick - a kind of crane with a movable pivoted arm for moving or lifting heavy weights, especially on a ship AND the framework over an oil well or similar boring that holds the drilling machinery.

Despotism - total rule.

Destrier - A medieval knight's warhorse.

Detritus - Waste or debris of any kind.

Diaspora - the dispersion of any people from their original homeland

Disingenuous - crafty

Divisive - tending to cause disagreement or hostility between people

Doctrinaire - impractical theorist

Dossier - a collection of documents about a particular person, event, or subject.

Dram - A small drink of whiskey or other spirits

Draught - Draft (use in reference to liquid)

Drosha complex - miRNA maturation

Dross - Something regarded as worthless; rubbish.

Eschaton - the end of the world

Echelon - A level or rank in an organization, a profession, or society.

Energic - In a state of action, acting, operating AND having energy or great power, energetic.

Ensign - A commissioned officer ranking above chief warrant officer and below lieutenant.

Eponym - A person after whom a discovery, invention, place, etc., is named or thought to be named.

Eponymous - (of a person) giving their name to something.

Equivocation - intentional use of vague language

Equivocator - person who uses equivocation

Ersatz - (of a product) made or used as a substitute, typically an inferior one, for something else.

Etiology - The cause, set of causes, or manner of causation of a disease or condition.

Exacting - making great demands on one's skill, attention, or other resources.

Expectorate - Cough or spit out phlegm from the throat or lungs.

Extravasate - let or force out blood from a vessel that naturally contains it into the surrounding area

Fait accompli - a thing that has already happened or been decided before those affected hear about it, leaving them with no option but to accept.

Feretory - a container for the relics of a saint; reliquary. an enclosure or area within a church where such a reliquary is kept.

Flagrantly - In a flagrant manner (conspicuously or obviously offensive)

Flibbertigibbet - a frivolous, flighty, or excessively talkative person.

Fractiousness - unruly, irritable

Frangible - fragile

Gaman - enduring the seemingly unbearable with patience and dignity

Ganbaru - to slog on tenaciously through tough times

Geniocracy - The framework for a system of government which was first proposed by Raël in 1977 and which advocates problem-solving and creative intelligence as criteria for regional governance.

Gestalt - an organized whole that is perceived as more than the sum of its parts

Glutaminergic - Having to do with glutamine.

Glycocalyx - extracellular polymeric material produced by some bacteria, epithelia and other cells.

Godspeed - An expression of good wishes to a person starting a journey.

Grotesque - comically or repulsively ugly or distorted.

Guile - sly or cunning intelligence.

Guileless - free of deceit

Gumshoe - A detective.

Hair-shirt - austere and self-sacrificing

Haute - fashionably elegant or high-class

Hemidemisemiquaver - sixty-fourth note

Hemorrhaging - (of a person) suffer a hemorrhage (loss in large amounts in a seemingly uncontrollable manner)

Hormesis - favorable biological responses to low exposures to toxins and other stressors

Hubris - Excessive pride or self-confidence.

Hypergraphia - compulsion to express vision in an undisciplined stream of poems, letters, or stories

Hyperreligiosity - the tendency to charge all events, large and small, with cosmic significance

Hyponasty - an upward bending of leaves or other plant parts, caused by increased growth on their lower surface.

Hysteresis - The dependence of an output of a system not only on its current input, cut also on its history of past inputs.

Iatrogenic - of or relating to illness caused by medical examination or treatment.

Idempotence - the property of certain operations in mathematics and computer science, that can be applied multiple times without changing the result beyond the initial application.

Incidental - accompanying but not as a major part

Incipient - In an initial stage; beginning to happen or develop.

Inculcate - instill (an attitude, idea, or habit) by persistent instruction.

Indefatigable - (of a person or their efforts) persisting tirelessly.

Indemnity - Security or protection against a loss or other financial burden.

Industrious - Diligent and hard-working.

Infobesity - the condition of continually consuming large amounts of information, especially when this has a negative effect on a person's well-being and ability to concentrate

Inimical - tending to obstruct or harm; hostile

Insufflate - Blow (air, gas, or powder) into a cavity of the body.

Inveterate - Long established habit that is unlikely to change

Itinerant - traveling from place to place

Irascible - irritable

Jabroni - a foolish or contemptible person; see https://imgur.com/fOOkJ8g

Jettison - Throw or drop (something) from an aircraft or ship.

Juxtapose - placing things together for contrast

Kairos - The supreme moment.

Kaizen - improvement, or change for the best

Knapping - Shape (a piece of stone, typically flint) by striking it so as to make stone tools or weapons or to give a flat-faced stone for building walls.

Laconic - concise

Lambaste - criticize (someone or something) harshly.

Lagniappe - something given as a bonus or extra gift

Lapidary - (of language) engraved on or suitable for engraving on stone and therefore elegant and concise.

Legerdemain - Sleight of hand.

Lexicographic - alphanumeric order

Licentious - promiscuous and unprincipled in sexual matters OR disregarding accepted rules or conventions, esp. in grammar or literary style.

Lissome - (of a person or their body) thin, supple, and graceful.

X Lithe - thin, supple, and graceful.

Loaded for bear - preparing oneself for a demanding task or confrontation

Loam - a fertile soil of clay and sand containing humus

Lordosis - Inward curvature of the spine, sexually suggestive.

Lovecraftian - Of having to do with Lovecraft's fiction.

Lucifer - Lightbringer.

Luxuriant - (of vegetation) rich and profuse in growth; lush.

Magnate - a wealthy and influential person

Malodorous - unpleasant-smelling

Matron - A woman in charge of domestic and medical arrangements at a boarding school or other establishment.

Melodious - pleasant-sounding

Mendacity - untruthfulness

Mendicant - beggar

Meritocracy - Government or the holding of power by people selected on the basis of their ability.

X Mithridatism - Protecting oneself against a poison by gradually self-administering non-lethal amounts.

Mordant - Humor having a sharp or critical quality.

Moribund - terminal decline

Multifarious - Many and of various types.

Mycology - The scientific study of fungi.

Mytheme - The essential kernel of a myth; an irreducible, unchanging element, a minimal unit that is always found shared with other, related mythemes and reassembled in various ways.

Nadir - The lowest point in the fortunes of a person or organization / the point on the celestial sphere directly below an observer.

Nemophilist - One who is fond of forests or forest scenery; a haunter of the woods

Neopythagoreanism - a school of Hellenistic philosophy which revived Pythagorean doctrines

Noctifer - Nightbringer

Nonplussed - surprised to the extent of not knowing how to react

Noocracy - aristocracy of the wise, a social and political system that is "based on the priority of human mind"

Nycthemeron - a period of 24 consecutive hours

Obeisance - Deferential respect.

Obfuscation - obscuring

Oblivescence - the process of forgetting

Obsequious - Obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree.

Odious - extremely unpleasant, repulsive

Omphaloskepsis - the contemplation of one's navel, complacent self-absorption

Oniomania - Addiction to shopping.

Opsonization - the binding of an antibody to an antigen, leading to the attraction of phagocytes

Ordnance - Mounted guns; artillery.

Organoleptic - action on or involving use of the sense organs.

Ostensibly - Purportedly though perhaps not actually.

Ostentatious - Characterized by vulgar or pretentious display; designed to impress or attract notice.

Outlandish - Looking or sounding bizarre or unfamiliar.

Overburden - the substance that lays above the material of value

Overobsequious - characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning

Palliative - a treatment that relieves pain/problem without dealing with underlying cause

Pariah - social outcast

Pareidolia - a psychological penomenon involving a stimulus which is perceived as significant (e.g. seeing faces in inanimate objects.)

Panoply - A complete or impressive collection of things.

Paragon - a person or thing regarded as a perfect example of a particular quality.

Payload - The part of a vehicle's load, especially an aircraft's, from which revenue is derived; passengers and cargo.

Pejorative - Expressing contempt or disapproval.

Phaneron - the real world filtered by our sensory input.

Picayune - petty, worthless

Perfidy - treachery

Positivism - A philosophical system that holds that every rationally justifiable assertion can be scientifically verified or is capable of logical or mathematical proof, and that therefore rejects metaphysics and theism.

Postmortem - An examination of a dead body to determine the cause of death.

Precocial - organism hatched or born in an advanced state and able to feed itself almost immediately. Antonym of altricial.

Prescient - Having or showing knowledge of events before they take place.

Pretentious - Attempting to impress by affecting greater importance, talent, culture, etc., than is actually possessed.

Prevaricator - liar

Probity - Of the highest morals

Prodigious - remarkably or impressively great in extent, size, or degree.

Profligate - recklessly extravagant

X Proletariat - Working class people

Promulgate - to make known

Prophylactics - A medicine or course of action used to prevent disease.

Propitious - Giving or indicating a good chance of success; favorable.

Proverbial - Well known, especially so as to be stereotypical.

Pugilist - fighter; boxer.

Pulchritudinous - Used of persons only; having great physical beauty

Putative - Generally considered or reputed to be.

Qualia - individual instances of subjective, conscious experience.

Quizzaciously - in a mocking manner

Quotient - a degree or amount of a specified quality or characteristic.

Rapacity - aggressive greed.

Rapturous - characterized by, feeling, or expressing great pleasure or enthusiasm.

Recalcitrant - Having an obstinately uncooperative attitude toward authority or discipline.

Recuse - challenge a legal person as unqualified to perform duties due to a conflict of interest

Recidivism - the tendency of a convicted criminal to reoffend.

Redactor - someone who puts text into appropriate form for publication

Refractory - stubborn or unmanageable; resistant to a process or stimulus; a substance that is resistant to heat

Refulgence - radiant

Reliquary - a repository or receptacle for relics.

Remonstrate - pleading in protest

Replete - Filled or well-supplied with something.

Reprobate - depraved, wicked person beyond hope of salvation

Repurpose - Adapt for use in a different purpose.

Rescind - revoke, cancel, or repeal.

Reticulum - a fine network or netlike structure.

Reverse-wind - from the aftermath of a nuclear explosion

Revisionism - A policy of revision or modification, especially of Marxism on evolutionary socialist (rather than revolutionary) or pluralist principles.

Rigmarole - a lengthy and complicated procedure, or a long and rambling statement

Roentgen - a legacy unit of measurement for the exposure of x-rays and gamma rays

Rote - Mechanical or habitual repetition of something to be learned.

Ruggedize - to strengthen (as a machine) for better resistance to wear, stress, and abuse

X Salacious - lustful, lecherous

Salubrious - healthful

Sartorial - pertaining to tailors

Saturnine - gloomy

Scrivener - A clerk, scribe, or notary.

Scuttle - Run hurriedly or furtively with short quick steps.

Sedentary - (of a person) tending to spend much time seated; somewhat inactive.

Sedulous - hard-working

Semantics - meaning and interpretation of words

Seminal - containing seeds of later development

Semiosis - the process of signification

Sequelae - chronic diseases resulting from repeated acute conditions (sing. sequela)

Shibboleth - custom, principle, or belief distinguishing a particular class or group of people

Shimming - wedge (something) or fill up (a space) with a shim

Shirr - gather by means of drawn threads in parallel rows

Sidereal - pertaining to stars

Sisu - determination, bravery, and resilience

Skinflint - mean person, miser

Slovenly - regarding a messy, dirty, careless, or excessively casual person

Solicitous - anxious, concerned, eager, careful

Solipsism - The view or theory that the self is all that can be known to exist.

Sorb - apple-like fruit

X Spangle - A small, often circular piece of sparkling metal or plastic sewn especially on garments for decoration.

Specious - deceptively pleasing to the eye

Spoor - traces of an animal

Staid - sedate, respectable, and unadventurous.

Stymied - Prevent or hinder the progress of.

Styptic - (of a substance) capable of causing bleeding to stop when it is applied to a wound.

Sylvan - inhabiting trees, made of branches

Sybarite - a person devoted to pleasure and luxury

Syzygy or Syzygies - A conjunction or opposition, especially of the moon with the sun.

Tacenda - Things better left unsaid.

x Taciturn - (of a person) reserved or uncommunicative in speech; saying little.

Technocracy - The government or control of society or industry by an elite of technical experts.

Tentacular - resembling or equipped with tentacles

Tolkeinesque - Of having to do with Tolkein's fiction.

Tortuosity - A measure of the twistedness of a curve. In 2005 it was proposed to measure tortuosity by an integral of square of derivative of curvature, divided by the length of a curve.

Triage - (in medical use) the assignment of degrees of urgency to wounds or illnesses to decide the order of treatment of a large number of patients or casualties.

Tribulation - A cause of great trouble or suffering.

Trounce - to defeat heavily in contest

Truancy - the action of staying away from school without good reason; absenteeism.

Truncheon - A short, thick stick carried as a weapon by a police officer.

Umbrage - Offense or annoyance.

Unctuous - defining a person; excessively or ingratiatingly flattering, oily/greasy; referring to other substances, means oily or greasy feel

Ungulate - an animal with hooves

Unrepentant - Showing no regret for one's wrongdoings.

Untold - Too much or too many to be counted or measured.

Unwieldy - difficult to carry or move because of its size, shape, or weight.

Vapid - Offering nothing that is stimulating or challenging: "tuneful but vapid musical comedies".

Veracity - truthfulness

Verbiage - excess of words

Verdigris - a bright bluish-green encrustation or patina formed on copper or brass by atmospheric oxidation, consisting of basic copper carbonate.

Vertiginous - causing vertigo, especially by being extremely high or steep.

Vituperate - Blame or insult (someone) in strong or violent language.

Vivarium - An enclosure, container, or structure adapted or prepared for keeping animals under seminatural conditions for observation or study or as pets; an aquarium or terrarium.

Voluble - speaking or spoken incessantly and fluently

Wend - go in a specified direction, typically slowly or by an indirect route.

Wherewithal - The money or other means needed for a particular purpose.

Whittling - Carve (wood) into an object by repeatedly cutting small slices from it.

Widdershins - in a direction contrary to the sun's course, considered as unlucky; counterclockwise.

Winsome - attractive or appealing in appearance or character

Zeitgeber - external cue that synchronizes circadian clock in organisms, German for "time giver"/"synchronizer".

Zeitgeist - the intellectual fashion or dominant school of thought that typifies and influences the culture of a particular period in time.

Zenith - culminating point

New words:

Chronocremation

Egosystem

Heytime - like heyday, but since there are no days, the expression is heytime

Genosplicing - the combination of two or more species genomes to generate novel organisms

Godstruck

Philyophilizer - ...this is a machine that takes two disparate things, then turns them into complementary things?

Also:

Names of constellations and Roman and Greek mythological figures.

Nonce words

See The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

A special thanks to Annie for contributing many of these words.