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1. Abaft: toward or at the stern of a ship; further aft

2. Abatjour: skylight or device to direct light into a room

3. Agastopia: admiration of a particular part of someone’s body

4. Argle-bargle: copious but meaningless talk or writing

5. Baboonery: foolishness; stupidity; nonsense

6. Bacchanal: drunkard; a reveler

7. Bibble: to drink often; to eat and/or drink noisily

8. Bumfuzzle: confused, perplexed

9. Cabotage: coastal navigation; the exclusive right of a country to control the air traffic within its borders

10. Cacodemonomania: the pathological belief that one is inhabited by an evil spirit

11. Caffoy: velvety fabric

12. Cattywampus: askew

13. Dactylioglyph: engraver of rings or gems

14. Decadarchy: government by ten individuals

15. Discombobulate: to disconcert or confuse

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16. Dragoman: an interpreter or professional guide for travelers

17. Eellogofusciouhipoppokunurious: very good, very fine

18. Elchee: an ambassador

19. Erf: a plot of land

20. Erinaceous: of or relating to hedgehogs

21. Falsiloquence: deceitful speech

22. Finifugal: afraid of finishing anything

23. Flummox: to perplex someone greatly

24. Frankenfood: genetically modified food

25. Gablock: spur attached to the heel of a fighting cock

26. Gadzooks: mild oath




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27. Gardyloo: used in medieval Edinburgh as a warning cry when it was customary to throw slops from the windows into the streets

28. Gobbledygook: a meaningless language

29. Halfpace: a platform of a staircase where the stair turns back in exactly the reverse direction of the lower flight

30. Hallux: big toe

31. Hent: to grasp; to seize

32. Hullabaloo: a commotion

33. Ickle: little

34. Ill-willie: having an unfriendly disposition

35. Imago: the idealized mental image of a person

36. Impignorate: to pledge, pawn, or mortgage

37. Jabberwock: nonsense, gibberish

38. Jaculiferous: having arrow-like prickles

39. Jargoon: brilliant pale or colorless zircon


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