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OP exsert
exsiccate
exscind
gustatory
seigniorage
egeria
ananias
fuddy-duddy Wordsmith doesn’t mention it, but I suspect “fud = fart” is related to this word
pelagic
icarian
gorgon
palladium - in addition to definitions Wordsmith gives, I have seen it used to refer to a room in English clubs to which only members were permitted to enter
augean a favorite cliché for describing teenager’s bedrooms
atlas - in addition to definitions Wordsmith gives, it is also name of first vertebra, on which skull rests, and corresponding to the body of other vertebrae, there is the axis, which permits turning of head., and is the size of
tip of little finger, and easily sheared, as in execution by hanging. causing fatal compression of spinal cord.
sisyphean
verboten In German army, was nicht verboten ist, ist erlaubt.
nitid
scabrous
hyaline
supererogatory
supererogatory
compurgator
laconic
rictus
psittacine
avifauna
ornithology
struthious
oology
nidifugous
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