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Beek– to bask or warm in the sunshine or before a fireplace, stove, or bonfire. (of wood) to season by exposure to heat.

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Astraphobia– abnormal fear of thunder and lightening or or an unwarranted fear of scattered and/or isolated thunderstorms.

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Genetrix – the biological mother of a child; mother.

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Bibliomania,– a passion for books; an extreme preoccupation or passionate enthusiasm for collecting and possessing books; a symptom of obsessive–compulsive disorder which involves the collecting or even hoarding of books to the point where social relations or health are damaged.

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Slench – an idle fellow; a big piece or lump of anything; to hunt about privately with a view to stealing food; to creep or slink away; to sneak;  to quench one’s thirst; to prune a hedge; to cut one side of it only.

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Monoxylous – made from a single piece of wood; working with a single trunk or piece of timber; made out of a single trunk or piece of timber.

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Craxis – the unease of knowing how quickly your circumstances could change on you—that no matter how carefully you shape your life into what you want it to be, the whole thing could be overturned in an instant, with little more than a single word, a single step, a phone call out of the blue, and by the end of next week you might already be looking back on this morning as if it were a million years ago, a poignant last hurrah of normal life.

Sourced from the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows.

 

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Perstringe – to find fault with; censure, criticise; to pass strictures on.

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Cryophilic – growing, preferring or thriving at low temperatures.

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Weathercock – a weathervane in the form of a cockerel; (of a boat or aircraft) tend to turn to head into the wind; one who is fickle or changeable

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Prognosticate – foretell or prophesy a future event; to predict or foreshadow something; to give a judgment about what is likely to happen in the future, especially in connection with a particular situation.

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Slubber – to perform hastily, imperfectly, carelessly, sloppily or in a slipshod fashion; stain, sully; to smear or daub; slur; to do in a hurried or imperfect manner; an occupation in the West Riding scribbling and spinning mills, whereby loose cardings were drawn out and slightly twisted so that they could be wound on to bobbins.

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Allision – the action of dashing against or striking upon a fixed object; the act of alliding or an instance thereof; the running of one ship upon another ship that is stationary.

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Alliding – hitting or impacting a stationary object; the striking of a vessel against a fixed object.

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Tzimmes – a fuss or muddle; confusion;  any of various sweetened combinations of vegetables, fruit, and sometimes meat, prepared as a casserole or stew;  a Jewish stew of sweetened vegetables or vegetables and fruit, sometimes with meat.

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Besorrow – to sorrow about or over; to be anxious or troubled about; regret; care about or for; look after; fill with care or sorrow; make sad;

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Occultation – the state of being blocked, hidden from view or lost to notice; an event that occurs when one object is hidden from the observer by another object that passes between them; the passage of a celestial object in front of another, hiding it from view.

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Chiliad– a group of 1000; a group that contains 1000 elements; a period of 1000 years.

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Valorous – showing great courage in the face of danger, especially in battle; to show valour: to be brave; to be valiant and courageous.

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Festination – an involuntary quickening of gait, as in some persons with Parkinson’s disease.