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September 21
otacust (n.)-- A spy, an eavesdropper

September 20
cohonestation (n.)-- The act of honoring with your company

September 18
scugways (adv.)-- Clandestinely; with a hidden purpose or motive

September 16
perfretation (n.)-- A sea voyage or crossing.

September 15
miraculate (v.)-- To produce by a miracle

September 14
charette (n.)-- A period of intense work or creative activity undertaken to meet a deadline

September 13
epinicion (n.)-- A song or poem of victory

September 12
serendipitist (n.)-- Someone who benefits from serendipity or a serendipitous event.

September 10
pot-valour (n.)-- Courage or boldness induced by drinking

September 9
agerasia (n.) A more youthful appearance than one's true age.

September 7
prosopopoeia (n.)-- Personification, the application of human characteristics to an inanimate thing

September 5
pogonophobia (n.) A hatred or dislike of beards.

September 3
ambilaevous (adj.) Equally clumsy in both hands

September 2
ucalegon (n.) A neighbor whose house is on fire

September 1
sceptredom (n.) The reign of a king, royal power or sovereignty

August 31
intershock (v.) To collide, to hit or strike together

August 30
anabiosis (n.) A revival, a coming back to life.

August 27
escaramouche (n.) A brief skirmish or fit of anger.

August 26
viaticated (adj.) Fully prepared for a journey

August 23
consanguinate (v.) To sympathize, to have an affinity with or fondness for.

August 22
desulture (n.) The act of vaulting from one horse to another.

August 21
cyllenian (adj.) Pertaining to theft or thieving

August 15
circumduction (n.) a longwinded, roundabout route or course of action

August 12
jeopard (v.) to stake a bet

August 8
climb-tack (n.)-- a cat that likes to walk on shelves.

August 5
Proteusian (adj.) able to change shape at will; variable, inconstant.

July 29
denary (n.) a group of ten

July 26
Sardoodledom (n.) well-made but contrived or trivial works for theater.

July 25
siderodromophobia (n.) the fear of rail travel.

July 21
pelmatogram (n.) a footprint

July 17
steganogram (n.) a coded text or message

July 16
basiate (v.) to kiss
Derived from a Latin word for a kiss on the hand, to basiate is to kiss. To suaviate is also to kiss, a term derived from suavis, a Latin word meaning 'sweet,' and to osculate or to deosculate is also to kiss, both of which come from a Latin word for 'kiss,' osculum, that literally means 'little mouth.'

July 10
lawrence (n.) A shimmering heat haze.

As well as being a boy's name, a lawrence is also a heat haze--the shimmering, undulating appearance of the air above a hot surface.

July 5
paw-paw (adj.)-- Immoral, obscene

July 4
Monadnock (n.) An isolated hill or mountain

July 3
Cosmognosis (n.)-- The natural instinct that tells a creature when to migrate.

July 2
Meditullium (n.) The absolute middle or core of something.

June 30
Transpontine (adj.) Located on the opposite side of a bridge.

June 29
Scathefire (n.) A vast, destructive conflagration

June 27
Mavortian (adj.) Warlike, martial.

June 25
Decapulate (v.) To pour a liquid from one vessel into another.

June 17
Gaping-stock (n.) Someone or something being stared at by a crowd.

June 11
Abscotchalater (n.) Someone hiding from the police.

June 10
Sheep-biting (n.) Treacherous, underhand behavior.

June 9
Curfuggle (n.) A confused mess; disorder, disarray.

June 7
Wunderkammer (n.) A collection of oddities; a room set aside for just such a collection.

June 8
Boothale (v)-- To pillage or plunder.

Extra-foraneous (adj.) --Outdoor

June 4
Anaphora (n.) A figure of speech that repeats a sequence of words at the start of successive clauses.

June 3
Morganatic (adj.)-- Designating a marriage between two people of unequal social rank.