Word origins

• proximateClose or closest; adjacent.
• HorusThe ancient Egyptian falcon-headed god of the sun, sky, war, and kingship.
• ternaryMade up of three things.
• insulateTo separate, detach, or isolate.
• voluminousOf or pertaining to volume or volumes.
• littoralOf or relating to the shore, especially the seashore.
• rescissionAn act of rescinding: removing, taking away, or taking back.
• CasselA surname.
• sciaticaNeuralgia of the sciatic nerve, characterised by pain radiating down through the buttocks and the back of the thigh.
• armisticeA (short) cessation of combat.
• evertTo turn inside out (like a pocket being emptied) or outwards.
• mandibleThe jaw or a jawbone, especially the lower jawbone in mammals and fishes.
• magnatePowerful industrialist; captain of industry.
• subrogationSubstitution of a different person in place of a creditor or claimant with respect to certain rights and duties.
• BaltAn ethnic descendant of the Indo-European Baltic people, especially including ethnic Lithuanians, Latvians or Prussians, but generally not including ethnic Belarusians, Estonians, Germans, Jews, Livonians, Poles, Russians, Swedes or Tatars who have also inhabited or currently inhabit the modern Baltic states.
• endometriumThe mucous membrane that lines the uterus in mammals and in which fertilized eggs are implanted.
• inscrutableDifficult or impossible to comprehend, fathom, or interpret.
• figmentA fabrication, fantasy, invention; something fictitious.
• confectionaryRelating to, or of the nature of confections or their production.
• SaracenA member of a nomadic people from the Sinai near the Roman province of Arabia in the early centuries AD, who were specifically distinct from Arabs.
• indomitableIncapable of being subdued, overcome, or vanquished.
• amendatoryFor the purpose of amending or correction.
• tabulateTo arrange in tabular form; to arrange into a table.
• interrogativeAsking or denoting a question.
• merganserAny of various diving ducks of the genera Mergus or Lophodytes, which feed on fish and have a sharply serrated bill.
• magisterialBefitting the status or skill of a magister or master; authoritative, masterly.
• immanentNaturally part of something; existing throughout and within something; intrinsic.
• marcheseAn Italian marquis.
• perfunctoryDone only or merely to conform to a minimal standard or to fulfill a protocol or presumptive duty.
• indiscretionThe quality or state of being indiscreet; lack of discretion
• auricularOf or pertaining to the ear.
• mammonThe desire for wealth personified as an evil spirit or a malign influence.
• tautologyRedundant use of words, a pleonasm, an unnecessary and tedious repetition.
• interpretableCapable of being interpreted or explained.
• licentiateA person who holds the academic degree of license.
• MinorcaA domestic chicken of a certain breed originating on the island of Menorca.
• scapulaEither of the two large, flat, bones forming the back of the shoulder.
• impregnableOf a fortress or other fortified place: able to withstand all attacks; impenetrable, inconquerable, unvanquishable.
• vitrificationTurning to glass or glasslike material: the action or process of vitrifying a material: conversion into an amorphous solid free of any crystalline structure by addition or removal of heat or by mixture with an additive.
• succubusA female demon which comes to men, especially monks, in their dreams to seduce them and have sexual intercourse, drawing energy from the men to sustain themselves, often until the point of exhaustion or death.
• oblateA person dedicated to a life of religion or monasticism, especially a member of an order without religious vows or a lay member of a religious community.
• ovalbuminA glycoprotein which is the primary constituent of egg white.
• GienA commune of Loiret department, in north-central France.
• poplitealOf or pertaining to the popliteus (the area behind the knee).
• melancholiaDeep sadness or gloom; melancholy
• rotellaA disc.
• tamariskAny of several shrubs, of the genus Tamarix, native to arid regions in Eurasia and Africa, often invasive in other arid regions.
• CapernaumAn ancient town in Galilee, Israel, a biblical and archaeological site.
• episcopateBishops seen as a group.
• mendacityThe fact or condition of being untruthful; dishonesty.
• cachexiaA systemic wasting of muscle tissue, with or without loss of fat mass, that accompanies a chronic disease.
• pronominalOf, pertaining to, resembling, or functioning as a pronoun.
• recapitulateTo summarize or repeat in concise form.
• uncialOf or relating to an ounce, or an inch, especially to letters printed an inch high.
• offertoryA prayer said or sung as an anthem while offerings of bread and wine are placed on the altar during the Roman Catholic Mass or the Anglican Communion service.
• valencyThe capacity of something to combine with other things, as for example the capability of a vaccine as measured by the number of pathogen serotypes that it can counteract.
• plasmProtoplasm.
• equilibrateTo balance, or bring into equilibrium.
• catenaryRelating to a chain; like a chain.
• RicardianSomeone who believes King Richard III was a just king, misrepresented by Tudor propaganda; a supporter of Richard III.
• sciamachyshadow-boxing; fighting that is futile or make-believe
• raseTo be extremely angry; to rage; specifically, of a dog or wolf: to snarl in rage.
• mesenteryThe membrane that attaches the intestines to the wall of the abdomen, maintaining their position in the abdominal cavity, and supplying them with blood vessels, nerves, and lymphatics.
• ossuaryA container, receptacle, or building, such as an urn or vault, for holding the bones of the dead.
• seminiferousproducing seed
• myometriumThe smooth muscle forming the wall of the uterus.
• metastasizeOf a disease (especially cancer) or a tumour: to form a metastasis (“a secondary focus away from the primary site”) in (a body organ).
• MercianA native or inhabitant of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia.
• accentuationA more distinct or prominent form.
• phasisA phase (of the moon, a planet etc.).
• theophanyA manifestation of a deity to a person.
• oligarchicOf or pertaining to oligarchy.
• coevalOf the same age or era; contemporary.
• salvificAble or intending to provide salvation or redemption.
• BlasiusA male given name from Latin.
• eparchyA district of the Roman Empire at the third echelon
• necromanticOf or relating to necromancy: the resurrection of or communication with the dead, especially through the use of black magic.
• scissionThe act of division, separation, cutting, cleaving, or severing; cleavage.
• neotericModern, new-fangled.
• CordulaA female given name from Latin.
• primogenitureThe state of being the firstborn of the children of the same parents.
• remonstrateTo object with in critical fashion; to express disapproval (with, against).
• Holofernesa character in the deuterocanonical Book of Judith, an invading general of Nebuchadnezzar, beheaded by Judith.
• canoniccanonical
• abecedarianSomeone who is learning the alphabet.
• chalazionA cyst in the eyelid, caused by inflammation of a blocked meibomian gland.
• viscidHaving a high viscosity.
• univocalHaving only one possible meaning.
• cambionThe half-demon offspring of either an incubus and a female human or a succubus and a male human.
• perspicaciousOf acute discernment; having keen insight; mentally perceptive.
• recrudescenceThe condition or state being recrudescent; the condition of something (often undesirable) breaking out again, or re-emerging after temporary abatement or suppression.
• orbicularCircular or spherical in shape; round.
• unitiveOf, causing, or involving unity or union.
• morphosisThe way in which an organism (or an organ) changes form during development.
• scotomaAn area of impaired or lost vision within a visual field otherwise in a good (or at least healthy) state.
• garganeyA small dabbling duck, Anas querquedula, that breeds in much of Europe and western Asia, and winters in Africa.
• intellectualityThe characteristic of being intellectual; intellectual ability.
• refutableAble to be refuted, or shown to be false.
• PoitevinOf, from or relating to the region of Poitou in France.
• apparateApparatus.