Insurance
Updating my address made my premium increase by $4.00. :(
New words
I’ve been reading the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant lately (yes, I am a sucker for any books with ‘chronicles’ in the name”) and I’ve learned some new words as a result:
- Abysm – like an abyss but deeper
- Aliment – nourishment, food
- Anile – like an old woman, imbecile
- Attar – fragrant essence
- Cerements – waxy wrappings for the dead
- Chasuble – an ecclesiastical vestment
- Coruscating – sparkling
- Extirpate – root out, exterminate
- Febrile – feverish
- Gelid – cold as ice
- Hebetude – dullness
- Inanition – being empty, starvation
- Incondign – unworthy
- Intaglio – engraving
- Irenic – pacific
- Leonine – lionlike
- Malefic – harmful in purpose
- Moiling – toiling, turbulent
- Oriflamme – rallying object or ideal
- Orison – prayer
- Patina – thin layer, incrustation
- Pennon – flag, pennant
- Penumbra – shadow between darkness and light
- Periapt – amulet, charm
- Puissant – powerful
- Roborant – restorative, invigorating medicine
- Rictus – expanse of a mouth
- Surcease – stop, termination
- Suppurate – secrete pus
- Suzerainty – supremacy
- Unanodyned – uneased, unsoothed (this word appears to be made up)
- Vermeil – bright red
- Viand – food, provisions (in the plural)