Thomas Disch Taught Me a Bunch of New Words

I recently finished reading Thomas M. Disch’s novel Camp Concentration, which had more words in it that I didn’t know than any book I’ve read in years. Here are the new additions to my vocabulary.

• Orthoepy. n. The correct or accepted pronunciation of words.
• Lutulent. adj. The state or condition of being muddy or turbid.
• Resile. v. Abandon a position or course of action.
• Orgulous. adj. Haughty.
• Chrism. n. A mixture of oil and balsam, consecrated and used for anointing at baptism and in other rights of the Catholic, Orthodox, and Anglican churches.
• Hierodule. n. A slave or prostitute in service to a temple.
• Hypogeum. n. An underground chamber.
• Chiliad. n. 1. A group that contains 1,000 elements. 2. A millennium.
• Opsimath. n. A person who begins to learn or study only late in life.
• Jactitation. n. The restless tossing of the body in illness.
• Squitters. n. Diarrhea.
• Commination. n. The act of threatening divine vengeance.
• Electuary. n. A medical substance mixed with honey or another sweet substance.
• Meretricious. adj. Apparently attractive but having in reality no value or integrity.
• Rodomantade. n. Boastful speech or behavior.
• Concinnate. adj. Of speech or writing: put together with elegant style or propriety.
• Philoprogenitive. adj. Having many offspring.
• Emissile. adj. Capable of being protruded.
• Epalpibrate. adj. Lacking eyebrows.
• Viscid. adj. Glutinous, sticky.
• Atomy. n. A tiny fairy or sprite.
• Virescence. n. The state or condition of becoming green.
• Chyme. n. The pulpy acidic fluid that passes from the stomach to small intestine, consisting of gastric juices and partially digested food.