extrorse (en)

(adjective) facing outward

fey (en)

(adjective) fated to die; doomed / (adjective) marked by a foreboding of death or calamity / (adjective) able to see into the future; visionary / (adjective) marked by an otherworldly air or attitude / (adjective) crazy touched / (adjective) excessively refined; precious / (adjective) quaintly unconventional; campy

frisson (en)

(noun) a brief moment of emotional excitement; shudder thrill

frowsty (en)

(adjective) musty / (adjective) frowsy / having a stale, warm, and stuffy atmosphere.

gabardine (en)

a firm hard-finish durable fabric (as of wool or rayon) twilled with diagonal ribs on the right side

guignol (en)

(noun) dramatic entertainment featuring the gruesome or horrible

hagiography (en)

relating to the writing of the lives of saints; (derogatory) adulatory writing about another person

hinterland (en)

(noun) the often uncharted areas beyond a coastal district or a river's banks; an area lying beyond what is visible or known

hoydenish (en)

(noun) a girl or woman of saucy, boisterous, or carefree behavior

internecine (en)

(adjective) marked by slaughter; deadly / (adjective) mutually destructive / (adjective) of, relating to, or involving conflict within a group

invidious (en)

(adjective) tending to cause discontent, animosity, or envy / (adjective) envious / (adjective) of an unpleasant or objectionable nature; obnoxious / (adjective) of a kind to cause harm or resentment

jouissance (fr)

physical or intellectual pleasure, delight, or ecstasy; the concept featured heavily in the psychoanalysis of Jacques Lacan's and was expanded on by Roland Barthes for literary theory, to contrast with mere "pleasure" derived from reading texts that don't challenge the reader as a subject. can also refer to pleasure that devolves into pain

lacuna (en)

an unfilled space; a gap (plural: lacunae)

linguistic recursion (en)

the capacity to embed sentences in other sentences; some linguists (e.g., Chomsky) see this as fundamental to language

logotherapy (en)

an existential theory developed by Viktor Frankl, founded on the belief that human nature is motivated by the search for a life purpose

louche (en)

disreputable or sordid in a rakish or appealing way

lucent (en)

(adjective) glowing with light; luminous / (adjective) marked by clarity or translucence; clear

Marxist (en)

relating to or denoting the political and economic theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (noun or adj)

massif (en)

(from French for "massive") large mountain mass

mimeograph (en)

(noun) a duplicator for making many copies that utilizes a stencil through which ink is pressed

mise-en-abyme (fr)

term derived from heraldry; means "placed into abyss"

mountebank (en)

(noun) a person who sells quack medicines from a platform / (noun) a boastful unscrupulous pretender; charlatan / (verb) to beguile or transform by trickery / (verb) to play the mountebank

multivalent (en)

(adj) having or susceptible to many applications, interpretations, meanings, or values

officious (en)

(adjective) kind obliging / (adjective) dutiful / (adjective) volunteering one's services where they are neither asked nor needed; meddlesome / (adjective) informal unofficial

parochial (en)

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