encomium (en)

a speech or piece of writing that praises someone or something highly (plural: encomia). as the adjective encomiastic, means bestowing praise, eulogistic, laudatory

enervating (en)

(verb) to reduce the mental or moral vigor of / (verb) to lessen the vitality or strength of

entropology (en)

the study of man has become the study of disintegration and certain extinction

epigone (en)

(noun) follower disciple / (noun) an inferior imitator

espalier (en)

(noun) a plant (as a fruit tree) trained to grow flat against a support (as a wall) / (noun) a railing or trellis on which fruit trees or shrubs are trained to grow flat / (verb) to train as an espalier / (verb) to furnish with an espalier

excoriating (en)

(verb) to wear off the skin of; abrade / (verb) to censure scathingly

exigent (en)

(adjective) requiring immediate aid or action / (adjective) requiring or calling for much; demanding

expatiated (en)

(verb) to move about freely or at will; wander / (verb) to speak or write at length or in detail

flitches (en)

(noun) a side of cured meat / (noun) a side of bacon / (noun) a longitudinal section of a log

hecatomb (en)

(in ancient Greece or Rome) a great public sacrifice, originally of a hundred oxen OR an extensive loss of life for some cause

hoary (en)

(adjective) gray or white with or as if with age / (adjective) extremely old; ancient

homily (en)

(noun) a usually short sermon / (noun) a lecture or discourse on or of a moral theme / (noun) an inspirational catchphrase or platitude. homiletic: the art of preaching or writing sermons

imbroglio (en)

an extremely confused, complicated, or embarrassing situation

ineluctable (en)

unable to be resisted or avoided; inescapable

irredentist (en)

(noun) a political principle or policy directed toward the incorporation of irredentas within the boundaries of their historically or ethnically related political unit / a person advocating the restoration to their country of any territory formerly belonging to it

labile (en)

(adjective) readily or continually undergoing chemical, physical, or biological change or breakdown; unstable / (adjective) readily open to change

lacuna (en)

an unfilled space; a gap (plural: lacunae)

libidinal (en)

(adjective) of or relating to the libido

litote (en)

understatement (feminine)

loggia (en)

(noun) a roofed open gallery especially at an upper story overlooking an open court

louche (en)

disreputable or sordid in a rakish or appealing way

mandarin (en)

(noun) historically, a high government bureaucrat of the Chinese Empire OR a pedantic or elitist bureaucrat OR senior person of influence in academia or literary circles / (adj) deliberately superior or complex; esoteric, highbrow, obscurantist

mandarin (en)

(noun) historically, a high government bureaucrat of the Chinese Empire OR a pedantic or elitist bureaucrat OR senior person of influence in academia or literary circles / (adj) deliberately superior or complex; esoteric, highbrow, obscurantist

Manichaeism (en)

an ancient religious movement that has to do with duality? "an elaborate dualistic cosmology describing the struggle between a good, spiritual world of light, and an evil, material world of darkness"

Manichaeism (en)

an ancient religious movement that has to do with duality? "an elaborate dualistic cosmology describing the struggle between a good, spiritual world of light, and an evil, material world of darkness"