• anhedonia
    noun
    the inability to feel pleasure.
  • coruscating
    adj
    flashing or sparkling.
  • filigree
    noun
    ornamental work of fine wire, usually gold or silver.
  • passerine
    noun
    a bird of the order Passeriformes, commonly known as perching birds.
  • trunnion
    noun
    a point on which something can be rotated or tilted.
  • alluvium
    noun
    a deposit of sendiment left by flowing water; usually results in fertile soil.
  • lassitude
    noun
    physical or mental weariness.
  • atavistic
    adj
    relating to something ancient or ancestral.
  • lorgnette
    noun
    a pair of glasses held in front of the eyes via a long handle to one side.
  • redolent
    adj
    strongly reminiscent or suggestive of something.
  • stentorian
    adj
    loud and powerful; relating to the voice.
  • extirpate
    verb
    to destroy or remove completely.
  • frond
    noun
    the leaflike part of a palm or fern.
  • parturition
    noun
    the act of giving birth to young.
  • epistolary
    adj
    in the form of letters (literary works).
  • inchoate
    adj
    not fully formed or developed.
  • orrery
    noun
    an apparatus displaying the relative positions and motions of bodies in a solar system via clockwork.
  • penumbra
    noun
    something that covers or obscures.
  • fecundity
    noun
    the ability to produce ample offspring or ideas.
  • hors de combat
    adj
    out of combat; disabled.