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
<*> 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
tasseography Tea-leaf reading.