that I encountered while reading:

• Megabyzoi: eunuch-priests who worshipped the goddess Artemis


• brockle-faced: having blotches of colored hair on an otherwise white face


• minatory: expressing or conveying a threat


• swivet: a fluster or panic


• animalier: an artist who depicts animals


• luminiferous: producing or transmitting light


• qualia: instances of subjective, conscious experience


• selcouth: (archaic) strange


• syzygy: a conjunction or opposition, especially of the moon with the sun


• riparian: relating to or situated on the banks of a river


• estivation: the arrangement of petals and sepals in a flower bud before it opens


• chouse: (archaic) a person who deceives, defrauds, or tricks


• almirah: (Indian) a wardrobe, cabinet, or cupboard


• grogram: a type of grosgrain made up of a mixture of silk, and mohair or wool


• sculpin: a chiefly marine fish of the northern hemisphere, with a broad flattened head and spiny scales and fins


• logy: dull and heavy in motion or thought; sluggish


• unisonant: of a single sound; producing the same sound


• dithyrhambus: a wild choral hymn of ancient Greece, especially one dedicated to Dionysus


• aggrupation: an association or organization linked by a common interest or trade


• carcanet: a necklace or ornamental collar, typically made of gold or set with jewels


• guéridon: a small usually ornately carved and embellished stand or table


• sidereal: of or with respect to the distant stars


• rhodomontade: boastful talk or behavior


• cachinnation: raucous laughter


• ultramontane: situated on the other side of the Alps from the point of view of the speaker


• opuscule: a small or minor literary or musical work


• epanalepsis: a repetition of a word or a phrase with intervening words setting off the repetition


• synathrismus: the stringing together of related terms


• sternutatory: to cause sneezing