Abjection: To bring down & humble or to reject & cast out; degredation or downcast state
Accretion: "Growth or increase in size by gradual external addition, fusion, or inclusion; the growing together or adherence of parts that are normally separate. "
Adulation: Unwarranted overpraising & (servile) flattery
☆ Anodyne: Soothing, assuaging, eliminating pain
Aweful
☆ Benighted: "Plunged into darkness," overtaken by night
Birdlime: "A sticky substance that is smeared on branches or twigs to capture small birds."
Cleave to: To closely adhere, to stick, to cling
Cogitate: To think/consider carefully or to ponder
Concomitant: Existing concurrently (adjective or noun)
Coruscate: "To give forth flashes of light"
Decedent: A deceased person (esp. connoting law)
Dell: "A small, deep, and wooded valley or sunken area of ground, especially in the form of a natural hollow"
Expurgate: To rid of obscenities or vulgarity, especially of a book before publication
Forestall: Prevent something from happening
Fulsome: "Offending or disgusting by overfullness, excess, or grossness; cloying; gross; nauseous; esp., offensive from excess of praise;" insincere earnestness
God-and-Man: Referring to Christ
Godhead: The substance of God as opposed to the being of God; what vs. who
Hamartia: "Literally 'fault, failure, guilt, sin' from hamartanein "to fail of one's purpose; to err, sin," originally "to miss the mark,""
☆ Heavenwards
Ineluctable: Inevitable, unavoidable, inescapable
Inveterate: Deeply rooted, long-established, chronic/habitual
Lazarus taxon: "[I]n conservation biology and ecology, it can refer to species or populations that were mistakenly thought to be extinct, and are rediscovered to be still living;" my thylacine hopes
Lordosis: Spinal curvature
Meritorious: Deserving of merit
Militate: To force or give effect / cause a certain outcome, to influence
Nescience: Ignorance & agnosticism
☆ Oneric: Pertaining to dreams, dreamlike
☆ Palimpsest: "A manuscript, typically of papyrus or parchment, that has been written on more than once, with the earlier writing incompletely scraped off or erased and often legible;" Me & Michael
Parsonage: The house a church provides for its pastor
Privation: State of deprivation & lacking, to lack basic necessities
Promulgate: To make known through declaration
Putative: Generally thought of or regarded to be a certain way, supposed
Randy: Horny
"The randy boys from the cowboy movie" re: Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Redolent: Suggestive; reminiscent (like the odor of something)
Riven: Split
Schmaltz: Overly sentimental art / rendered chicken or goose fat
☆ Spume: Frothfoam (like in my chest)
"The little 16 oz. will be rolling about among my personal effects during the cross-country drive next week, gathering carbonation-spume-potential-energy till it resembles a corked champagne. "
Vainglory: Unwarranted pride
☆ Venial: "Easily excused or forgiven; pardonable."