anodyne (en)

(noun) a painkilling drug or medicine

belled interview (en)

a one-sided conversation (after a term coined for Nabokov's critique of telephone conversations where the reader hears only one speaker)

dictum (en)

a formal pronouncement from an authoritative source

ephebes (en)

(in ancient Greece) a young man of 18–20 years undergoing military training

epigraph (en)

a short quotation or saying at the beginning of a book or chapter, intended to suggest its theme

Erebus (en)

(Greek mythology) the primordial god of darkness; the shadowy realm between Earth and Hades in Homeric myth

multifarious (en)

having many varied parts or aspects; multifaceted

parochial (en)

relating to a church parish; having a limited or narrow outlook or scope

putative (en)

generally considered or reputed to be; alleged; presumed

stygian (en)

(adjective) extremely dark, gloomy, or forbidding; refers to the River Styx of the underworld Hades in Greek mythology;

summative (en)

a type of assessment of participants where the focus is on the outcome of a program