Word origins

• indignitydegradation, debasement or humiliation
• ValeriusA male given name from Latin, of mostly historical use in English.
• coitusSexual intercourse, especially that involving penile–vaginal penetration.
• imprimaturAn official license to publish or print something, especially when censorship applies.
• AcheronA river in the infernal regions; also, the infernal regions themselves. By some of the English poets, it was supposed to be a flaming lake or gulf.
• HecateA powerful goddess of magic, crossroads, fire, light, the moon, and the underworld. Her Roman counterpart is Trivia.
• receptAn idea that is formed by the repetition of percepts.
• chimaeraA cartilaginous marine fish in the subclass Holocephali and especially the order Chimaeriformes, with a blunt snout, long tail, and a spine before the first dorsal fin
• lacerationAn irregular open wound to soft tissue.
• revelatoryOf, pertaining to, or in the nature of a revelation.
• gyreA swirling vortex.
• rectusAny of a number of muscles controlling the movement of the eyeball.
• FestivusA nondenominational holiday featured in a Seinfeld episode, now celebrated (seriously or otherwise) on December 23rd.
• HypatiaA female given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek].
• phaseolusany of several domesticated beans, of the genus Phaseolus, native to the Americas
• PomeraniaA former duchy, historical province of Prussia, and now a geographic region of Central Europe split between Germany and Poland on the southern shore of the Baltic Sea.
• ruminateTo chew cud. (Said of ruminants.) Involves regurgitating partially digested food from the rumen.
• imbueTo instill or inspire (someone) with a certain quality, feeling, or idea.
• colloqueTo hold colloquy; to converse.
• TiberiasA town in the Northern District, on the Sea of Galilee in Israel.
• ChaldeanOf or pertaining to Chaldea specifically, or ancient Babylonia in general.
• DrusillaA female given name from Latin.
• SidonFormer name of Saïda: a city in Lebanon; a former city-state in Phoenicia.
• fibulaAn ancient kind of brooch used to hold clothing together, similar in function to the modern safety pin.
• vestibulumA cavity into which, in certain bryozoans, the esophagus and anus open.
• cristaAny of the internal compartments formed by the inner membrane of a mitochondrion, where many chemical reactions take place.
• inarticulateNot articulated in normal words.
• subgenusA subdivision of a genus.
• vadoseOf or pertaining to water beneath the surface of the earth which is located above the level of the permanent groundwater.
• ejectaMaterial which has been ejected, especially from a volcano or an impact crater.
• bucolicRustic, pastoral, country-styled.
• BelialA wicked demon in Christian and Jewish apocrypha.
• misericordiaAn amercement.
• apotheosisThe fact or action of becoming or making into a god; deification.
• TethysPersonification of fertile waters, she was a Titan daughter of Uranus and Gaia, and with her brother Oceanus gave birth to all rivers and the Oceanids.
• ThuringiaA state of modern Germany.
• HispaniolaAn island of the Caribbean, divided politically into the independent nations of Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
• denariusA small silver coin issued both during the Roman Republic and during the Roman Empire, equal to 10 asses or 4 sesterces. Roughly one day’s wage for a skilled worker.
• BellonaA woman of great spirit and vigour.
• portentSomething that portends an event about to occur, especially an unfortunate or evil event; an omen.
• repatriateA person who has returned to their country of origin or whose original citizenship has been restored.
• inculcateTo teach by repeated instruction.
• agonA struggle or contest; conflict; especially between the protagonist and antagonist in a literary work.
• gladiusA Roman sword roughly two feet long.
• quadrennialHappening every four years.
• thespianOf, or relating to drama and acting; dramatic, theatrical.
• culexAny of various mosquitoes of the genus Culex, some of which carry disease.
• jubaAn American dance of West African origin that involves stomping as well as slapping and patting the arms, legs, chest, and cheeks.
• TusculumA city of Latium said to have been founded by Telegonus, the son of Ulysses
• claudicationLimping.
• excretaBodily waste which is excreted from the body.
• copulaA word, usually a verb, used to link the subject of a sentence with a predicate (usually a subject complement or an adverbial), that unites or associates the subject with the predicate.
• stagnateTo cease to flow or run.
• mantissaA minor addition to a text.
• CletusA male given name from Ancient Greek.
• solicitousDisposed to solicit; eager to obtain something desirable, or to avoid anything evil.
• flagellumIn protists, a long, whiplike membrane-enclosed organelle used for locomotion or feeding.
• ErebusOne of the Greek primordial deities who was the personification of darkness and shadow, brother-husband of Nyx and son of Chaos.
• CybeleA mother goddess of the ancient peoples of Asia Minor.
• AndronicusA male given name from Latin Andronicus.
• crusThe shin (tibia and fibula)
• amandTo send away; dismiss.
• iliumThe upper and widest of the three bones that make up each side of the hipbone.
• concoctTo prepare something by mixing various ingredients, especially to prepare food for cooking.
• TanisA historical city in Egypt, situated on the delta of the Nile.
• quadrateHaving four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and four right angles; square.
• amphibiaThe amphibians.
• soryiron(II) sulfate, or some earth impregnated with it
• demeritA quality of being inadequate; a disadvantage, a fault.
• unctionAn ointment or salve.
• AeginaA nymph of the island that bears her name.
• surreptitiousStealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert (especially movements).
• adverbialOf or relating to an adverb.
• cultusEstablished or accepted religious rites or customs of worship; state of religious development.
• ScorpiusA constellation of the zodiac, traditionally figured in the shape of a scorpion. Its brightest star is the red giant Antares.
• PontusA sea god, particularly of the Black Sea.
• deprecateTo express disapproval of, protest or plead against.
• gravitasSeriousness in bearing or manner; dignity.
• torporA state of being inactive or stuporous.
• paternosterThe Lord's Prayer, especially in a Roman Catholic context.
• annalThe record of a single event or item.
• PersepolisThe ceremonial capital city of Achaemenid Persia; its ruins in the present day.
• HeliopolisThe ancient capital of the 13th nome of Lower Egypt, located in the northern suburbs of modern Cairo, Egypt.
• inveterateFirmly established from having been around for a long time; of long standing.
• credulousExcessively ready to believe things; gullible.
• meseA dinner; meal.
• EvanderA male given name from Ancient Greek.
• inscribeTo write or cut (words) onto (something, especially a hard surface, or a book to be given to another person); to engrave.
• vivacityThe quality or state of being vivacious.
• enteritidisA form of enteritis caused by Salmonella enterica
• NausicaaA princess who aids Odysseus.
• HeraclitusA transliteration of the Ancient Greek male given name Ἡράκλειτος (Hērákleitos), notably borne by Heraclitus of Ephesus, a pre-Socratic Ionian philosopher.
• lotosDated spelling of lotus.
• ApolloniaA female given name from Ancient Greek.
• EpirusA historical region and ancient kingdom in Southeastern Europe, today split politically between northwestern Greece and southwestern Albania.
• profligateInclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly.
• relatorOne who relates, or tells; a narrator.
• PtolemaicOf or pertaining to the Ptolemy dynasty of pharaohs, the Ptolemies, rulers of Hellenistic Egypt.
• decimateTo kill one-tenth of (a group), (historical, specifically) as a military punishment in the Roman army selected by lot, usually carried out by the surviving soldiers.
• insinuateTo hint; to suggest tacitly (usually something bad) while avoiding a direct statement.