Vocabulary words

Pestilential - Producing pestilence or plague; pestilent.

Cobnut - The nut of the Common Hazel (Corylus avellana); hazelnut.

Ebullient - Boiling, agitated, enthusiastic.

Palliate -

1. To lessen the severity of; to extenuate.
2. To cause to seem less serious.
3. To relieve the symptoms of; to ameliorate.
4. To cover by excuses and apologies.

Auricular -

1. Of or pertaining to the ear, or to the sense of hearing; as, auricular nerves.
2. Told in the ear, i. e., told privately; as, auricular confession to the priest.
3. Recognized by the ear; known by the sense of hearing; as, auricular evidence.
4. Received by the ear; known by report.
5. (anatomy) Pertaining to the auricles of the heart.

Retinue -

1. A group of servants or attendants, especially of someone considered important.

the queen’s retinues

2. (obsolete) A service relationship.

Cashiered - To dismiss from service, as the military service, especially with disgrace.

Ignominy - Great dishonor, shame, or humiliation.

Paramour - An illicit lover, either male or female.

Assiduous - Hard-working, diligent or regular (in attendance or work); industrious.

Concupiscence - An ardent desire, esp. sexual desire; lust.

Parricide - someone who kills a relative, especially a parent.

Cuckold - A man married to an unfaithful wife, especially a husband who does not know or accept this position.

Cuckolded - To make a cuckold of someone by being unfaithful, or by seducing his wife.

Caponizing - To castrate a cockerel in order to fatten it for table use.

Indefatigable - Extremely persistent and untiring.

Semiotics - The study of signs and symbols, especially as means of language or communication.

Structuralism - A theory of sociology that views elements of society as part of a cohesive self-supporting structure.

Post-structuralism - A doctrine that rejects structuralism’s claims to objectivity and emphasizes the plurality of meaning.

Pedagogic - Of or relating to teaching.

Belletristic - Of, pertaining to, or having the characteristics of belles-lettres (literary works valued more for their aesthetic qualities rather than for any informative or educational content).

Exegesis - An exposition or explanation of a text, especially a religious one.

Hermeneutic - That explains, interprets, illustrates or elucidates.