Words from "The Shadow of the Torturer" by Gene Wolfe

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This is a list of words from this work by Gene Wolfe that I either found interesting or felt that I needed to remember. Please enjoy. I'm still working on finding the respective page numbers for many of these words. Any help would be greatly appreciated.


blazon: pg. 18
venal: pg. 19
nenuphar: pg. 19 (not in thesaurus)
oubliette: pg. 22 (and many more pages)
scintillate:
coruscate:
drachm:
fiacre:
omophagia:
accretion:
pelagic:
peccary:
nigrescent:
epopt: (not in thesaurus)
sabretasche: (not in thesaurus)
baldric:
tholus: (not in thesaurus)
litany:
iridescent:
supplicate:
fen:
inimical:
renascent:
lurid:
gamboge:
cerise:
thaumaturgy:
ephor: (not in thesaurus)
lazaret:
destrier: (not in thesaurus)
crenation:
doxy:
brazen:
restitution:
salubrious: pg. 194
ennui: pg. 195
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  1. blazon
    the official symbols of a family, state, etc.
  2. venal
    capable of being corrupted
  3. oubliette
    a dungeon with a trap door in the ceiling
  4. scintillate
    emit or reflect light in a flickering manner
  5. coruscate
    reflect brightly
  6. drachm
    a unit of capacity or volume in the apothecary system equal to one eighth of a fluid ounce
  7. baldric
    a wide (ornamented) belt worn over the right shoulder to support a sword or bugle by the left hip
  8. litany
    a prayer consisting of a series of invocations by the priest with responses from the congregation
  9. iridescent
    varying in color when seen in different lights
  10. supplicate
    ask for humbly or earnestly, as in prayer
  11. fen
    low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation
  12. inimical
    tending to obstruct or cause harm
  13. renascent
    rising again as to new life and vigor
  14. lurid
    glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism
  15. gamboge
    a gum resin used as a yellow pigment and a purgative
  16. cerise
    of the color between orange and purple in the color spectrum
  17. thaumaturgy
    any art that invokes supernatural powers
  18. lazaret
    hospital for persons with infectious diseases
  19. crenation
    one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.)
  20. doxy
    a woman who cohabits with an important man
  21. brazen
    not held back by conventional ideas of behavior
  22. restitution
    the act of restoring something to its original state
  23. salubrious
    promoting health
  24. ennui
    the feeling of being bored by something tedious
Created on 六月 6, 2010 (updated 六月 6, 2010)

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