Word origins

• alludeTo refer to something indirectly or by suggestion; to invoke it by implication rather than mention.
• meridionallocated in the south, southern; later especially, often pertaining to the southern parts of Europe.
• vehementShowing strong feelings; passionate; forceful or intense.
• flinchA reflexive jerking away.
• despotA ruler with absolute power; a tyrant.
• toqueA type of hat with no brim.
• seigneurA feudal lord or noble.
• equidistantOccupying a position midway between two ends or sides.
• ineffableBeyond expression in words; unspeakable.
• probityIntegrity, especially of the quality of having strong moral principles; decency and honesty.
• determinativeAn ideogram used to mark semantic categories of words in logographic scripts.
• carobAn evergreen shrub or tree, Ceratonia siliqua, native to the Mediterranean region.
• patriarchateA patriarchal system or community.
• solidityThe state or quality of being solid.
• dogeThe chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa.
• inhospitableNot inclined to hospitality; unfriendly.
• salutaryEffecting or designed to effect an improvement; remedial.
• antipathyOften followed by against, between, for, or to: a (deep) feeling of dislike or repugnance, normally towards a person and less often towards a thing, often without any conscious reasoning; aversion, distaste, hostility; (countable) an instance of this.
• exultTo rejoice; to be very happy, especially in triumph; to triumph (over).
• impostorSomeone who attempts to deceive by using an assumed name or identity.
• scrupulouslyIn a careful manner, with scruple; done with careful attention to detail.
• rationalistA person who follows the philosophy of rationalism.
• subterfugeAn indirect or deceptive device or stratagem; a blind. Refers especially to war and diplomatics.
• apportionTo divide and distribute portions of a whole.
• patrimonyA right or estate inherited from one's father; or, in a larger sense, from any male ancestor.
• languidOf a person or animal, or their body functions: flagging from weakness, or inactive or weak, especially due to illness or tiredness; faint, listless.
• musketeerA foot soldier armed with a musket.
• explicationThe act of opening or unfolding.
• gaietyThe state of being happy or merry.
• labileLiable to slip, err, fall, or apostatize.
• capitulationA reducing to heads or articles; a formal agreement.
• WalloonA native or inhabitant of Wallonia.
• caddisThe larva of a caddis fly. They generally live in cylindrical cases, open at each end, and covered externally with debris.
• prowThe front part of a vessel.
• retentiveHaving power to retain.
• consignTo transfer to the custody of, usually for sale, transport, or safekeeping.
• ducalOf or pertaining to a duke, a duchess, or the duchy or dukedom they hold.
• prosaicPertaining to or having the characteristics of prose.
• imprudentNot prudent; lacking prudence or discretion; indiscreet; injudicious; not paying attention to the consequences of one's actions.
• sabotA wooden shoe.
• gabelAny rent, charge, tribute, custom, tax, duty, excise etc.
• deprecationThe act of deprecating.
• intimationA hint; an indirect suggestion.
• predisposeTo make someone susceptible to something (such as a disease).
• endiveA leafy salad vegetable, Cichorium endivia, which is often confused with common chicory (Cichorium intybus).
• cephalicOf or relating to the head.
• coalescenceThe act of coalescing.
• laxityThe state of being lax; looseness, lack of tension.
• intercedeTo plead on someone else's behalf.
• copulationThe act of coupling or joining; union; conjunction.
• Hellenthe mythological patriarch of the Hellenes, the son of Deucalion (or sometimes Zeus) and Pyrrha, brother of Amphictyon and father of Aeolus, Xuthus, and Dorus
• membranousHaving the qualities of, or pertaining to, a membrane.
• acquiesceTo rest satisfied, or apparently satisfied, or to rest without opposition and discontent (usually implying previous opposition or discontent); to accept or consent by silence or by omitting to object.
• cessionThat which is ceded.
• plicationAn act of folding.
• malcontentDissatisfied with current conditions; disaffected, discontented, rebellious.
• abrogationA repeal by authority; abolition.
• pedantA person who makes an excessive or tedious show of their knowledge, especially regarding rules of vocabulary and grammar.
• peanA heraldic fur of gold spots on a black field.
• dissonantExhibiting dissonance; not agreeing; not harmonizing or melodizing.
• invincibilityThe quality or state of being invincible; invincibleness.
• presupposeTo assume some truth without proof, usually for the purpose of reaching a conclusion based on that truth.
• affectationAn attempt to assume or exhibit what is not natural or real; false display; artificial show.
• postilionA rider mounted on the near (left) leading horse who guides the team pulling a carriage.
• perversityThe quality of being perverse.
• presuppositionAn assumption made beforehand; a preliminary conjecture or speculation.
• peonA lowly person; a peasant or serf; a labourer who is obliged to do menial work.
• deploreTo bewail; to weep bitterly over; to feel sorrow for.
• obfuscateTo make dark; to overshadow.
• immobilityThe quality of not moving.
• chapeauA hat.
• invectiveAn expression which inveighs or rails against a person.
• pacifyTo bring peace to (a place or situation), by ending (or suppressing) war, fighting, violence, anger or agitation.
• invulnerableIncapable of being injured; not vulnerable.
• deputationThe act of deputing, or of appointing or commissioning a deputy or representative; office of a deputy or delegate; vicegerency.
• marquetryA decorative technique in which veneers of wood, ivory, metal etc. are inlaid into a wooden surface to form intricate designs.
• AlexandrianOf or pertaining to Alexandria in Egypt.
• evinceTo show or demonstrate clearly; to manifest.
• insubstantialLacking substance; not real or strong.
• dementDemented.
• quietudeSynonym of quietness (“absence of sound”)
• lannerThe lanner falcon, Falco biarmicus.
• perfidyA state or act of violating faith or allegiance; violation of a promise or vow, or of trust.
• immensityThe characteristic or state of being immense.
• courtesanA female prostitute, especially one with high-status or wealthy clients.
• imputeTo attribute or ascribe (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source.
• capuchinA monk in the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin; (generally) a Franciscan.
• nullityThe state of being null, or void, or invalid.
• adulterationThe process of adulterating.
• reticenceAvoidance of saying or reluctance to say too much; discretion, tight-lippedness; (countable) an instance of acting in this manner.
• iambicConsisting of iambs (metrical feet with an unstressed–stressed pattern) or characterized by their predominance.
• rondeauA fixed form of verse based on two rhyme sounds and consisting usually of 13 lines in three stanzas with the opening words of the first line of the first stanza used as an independent refrain after the second and third stanzas.
• sociabilityThe skill, tendency or property of being sociable or social, of interacting well with others.
• eruditionProfound knowledge acquired from learning and scholarship.
• turpitudeInherent baseness, depravity or wickedness; corruptness and evilness.
• inviolableNot violable; not to be infringed.
• frugalityThe quality of being frugal; prudent economy.
• analogicOf or pertaining to analogy.
• investitureThe act of investing, as with possession or power; formal bestowal or presentation of a possessory or prescriptive right.
• ruffianA scoundrel, rascal, or unprincipled, deceitful, brutal and unreliable person.