words to remember

I come across so many wonderful words each day, I couldn’t resist doing this. Here is a growing list of words I’ve deemed interesting enough (i.e., they’re not yet part of my everyday vocabulary) to remember.

List I

Sybaritic

Egeria

solicitously

etiology

pugilist

breviary

encomiums

Thebaid

sylvan

collation

superannuated

catechumen

unction

traipsing

idyllic

snarky

immure

<*> Most of the words in this list come from two books I read recently, Pepita Jimenez (Juan Valera) and the Sorrows of Werther (J.W. Goethe).

List II

mantissa

tasseography Tea-leaf reading.

peregrinate

aphasic

ichor

prosaic

philological

ancoluthon

aposiopesis

elision

hiatus