Vocabulary List
This page is for words and phrases that I don't know what they mean when I run across them. I thought a list of them might be interesting, and I hope if I take the trouble to write them down maybe I'll remember them better next time. The newer entries look like this.
A
- abrogate
- abstemious
- adroit
- aegis
- ambo
- ameliorate
- anaphora
- anchorite
- angina
- antinomy
- apothegm
- archon
- arnica
- aspirate
- assiduous
- ayahuasca
- Ayurvedic
B
C
- cairn
- calends
- carillon
- catamount
- cenotaph
- cf
- chiliasm
- cholera
- chthonic
- ciborium
- coeval
- collate
- contagion
- CRM
- cul-de-sac
- culvert
D
E
F
G
H
I
K
L
M
N
O
P
- pablum
- pantalettes
- parhelion
- parochial
- paroxysm
- parquet
- paucity
- peccadillo
- pectoral
- perspicuous
- phenomenological
- philological
- phlogiston
- physiognomy
- pleonasm
- pneumatology
- pogrom
- polemic
- pomatum
- precis
- preternatural
- prevarication
- prophylacitc