Ascendancy : governing or controlling interest
Bellicose : inclined to start quarrels or wars
Compendium : a brief summary of a larger work or field of knowledge
Denizens : a person permitted to residence in a foreign country
Explorers Elucidate
Furious passion
Galling : markedly irritating, Gelid eyes : extremely cold
Havoc: a situation in which there is much destruction or confusion
Inflorescence : A characteristic arrangement of flowers on a stem.
Kew Gardens, Kopecks
Licentiousness : no regard for accepted rules or standards.
Magnus : from the Latin "great"
"Not everything has an answer" p.60
Orchardist, Orangery, Opulent
Profligacy : wildly extravagant
Quechua people of Peru
Renumeration vs. Remuneration saw one in an e-mail and read the other in my new book.
Salubrious : making good health possible or likely
Thwarted, Truculent : easily annoyed or angered and likely to argue
Umbel : an inflorescence which consists of a number of short flower stalks (called pedicels)
Veritable alluvial bed of potential growth
Words I heard or read in the last few days and decided to write down, and in some cases, look up :)
"veXed,
frothY, and breathless" p.92, a very interesting turning point in the book
Zax : A tool similar to a hatchet, used for cutting and dressing roofing slates. Thanks, Gail
Zoea : a larval form of certain crustaceans having a spiny carapace and rudimentary limbs on the abdomen and thorax. Thanks, Sue
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