Word origins

• GeorgiaA transcontinental country in the Caucasus region of Europe and Asia, on the coast of the Black Sea. Official name: Georgia. Capital: Tbilisi.
• petroleumA flammable liquid ranging in color from clear to very dark brown and black, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons, occurring naturally in deposits under the Earth's surface.
• vocabularyA usually alphabetized and explained collection of words e.g. of a particular field, or prepared for a specific purpose, often for learning.
• SerbiaA country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeastern Europe. Official name: Republic of Serbia. Capital and largest city: Belgrade. Part of Yugoslavia until 1992, then part of Serbia and Montenegro until 2006.
• marginalOf, relating to, or located at or near a margin or edge; also figurative usages of location and margin (edge).
• obituaryA brief notice of a person's death, especially one published in a newspaper or other publication; also (obsolete), the section of a newspaper where notices of deaths are published.
• AnglicanRelating to the Church of England, or one of several related churches, such as those in the Anglican Communion.
• CambriaWales, a constituent country of the United Kingdom.
• irresistibleImpossible to resist.
• lingualRelated to, near, or on the side toward the tongue.
• repatriationThe process of returning of a person to their country of origin or citizenship.
• transcendentalSynonym of transcendent (“surpassing usual limits; excelling; extraordinary”).
• TransylvaniaA historical region in western Romania.
• rehabilitateTo restore (someone) to their former state, reputation, possessions, status etc.
• CroatA native or inhabitant of Croatia; a person of Croatian ethnicity.
• WestphaliaWestfalen, a subdivision (“Landschaftsverband”) of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany.
• MoraviaA historic region in the eastern Czech Republic.
• annulusA ring- or donut-shaped area, object, or structure.
• missiveA written message; a letter, note or memo.
• vegetalCapable of growth and reproduction, but not feeling or reason (often opposed to sensible and rational).
• interlocutorA person who takes part in dialogue or conversation: a locutive partner.
• scriptoriumA room set aside for the copying, writing, or illuminating of manuscripts and records, especially such a room in a monastery.
• tyroA beginner; a novice.
• subsumeTo place (any one cognition) under another as belonging to it; to include or contain something else.
• laboratoriumA laboratory.
• tritoneAn interval of three whole tones.
• bifurcateTo divide or fork into two channels or branches.
• regicideThe killing of a king.
• cogitationThe process of cogitating; contemplation, deliberation, reflection, meditation.
• supersessionThe act of superseding; the fact of having been superseded.
• patristicsThe study of the works of the early Christian Church Fathers.
• quietusA stillness or pause; something that quiets or represses; removal from activity.
• leonineOf, pertaining to, or characteristic of a lion; lionlike.
• emasculateTo deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate, to geld.
• abrenounceTo renounce; to contradict.
• ambiloquousUsing ambiguous expressions; speaking or writing in a way that may be variously interpreted.
• ambiloquyAmbiguous language.
• a posterioriInvolving induction of theories from facts.
• a prioriSelf-evident, intuitively obvious.
• carrusA load: various English units of weight or volume based upon standardized cartloads of certain commodities.
• cranio-Forms terms relating to the cranium (skull).
• e caudataUsed in Latin for a long ē that represents an etymological ⟨ae⟩ or ⟨oe⟩ diphthong, both of which diphthongs had phonologically merged into ⟨ē⟩ by the early Mediaeval period.
• emphracticHaving the quality of closing the pores of the skin.
• equiparateTo perform equiparation; to transfer attributes from one object or concept to another.
• equiparationThe transfer or imputation of attributes from one object or concept to another; the drawing of an equivalence between them.
• extravagateTo rove.
• honorificabilitudinitatibusThe state of being able to achieve honours; honourableness.
• honorificabilitudinityThe quality of being honourable; honourableness.
• logotheteAny of various state officials or functionaries in the Byzantine Empire.
• majorationIncrease; enlargement.
• o caudataA form of the letter o modified by the addition of a diacritical “tail”: ⟨ǫ⟩, used in Old Norse.
• opus operantisThe spiritual effect in the performance of a religious rite that is ascribed chiefly or exclusively to the disposition of the recipient.
• opus operatumThe spiritual effect in the performance of a religious rite which accrues from the virtue inherent in it, or by grace imparted to it, irrespective of the performer.
• partialitasThe unique human position in Spinozan philosophy, where humans are simultaneously (i) 'finite modalities' as 'contingent' beings and (ii) because of human potential through the development and maturation of the intellect, a part of the 'infinite modalites' and hence a metaphysical part of the 'real'.
• peccaminousSinful.
• porphyrogeniteAn honorific title given to a son of a reigning emperor in the Byzantine Empire, notably borne by Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus.
• quadriviumThe higher division of the seven liberal arts in the Middle Ages, composed of geometry, astronomy, arithmetic, and music.
• sebestenA medium-sized deciduous tree of species Cordia myxa or, less often, Cordia latifolia, Cordia sebestena, or other species in the genus Cordia, the wood of which is used for furniture and musical instruments.
• sobrinicideThe killing of a cousin.
• YarovitPolabian god of war worshipped in Wolgast and Havelberg.