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Fusby - short, stout or squat

Skirr - a whirring or grating sound as made by the wings of birds in flight

Vilipend - treat or regard with contempt

Oppugnant - combative, antagonistic or contrary

Embrangle - confuse or entangle

Astergent – cleansing or scouring

Agrestic – rural, rustic, unpolished, uncouth

Apodeictic – unquestionably true by virtue of demonstration

Caducity – perishableness, senility

Calignosity – dimness, darkness

Compossible – possible in coexistence with something else

Exuviate – to shed (a skin or similar outer covering)

Fatidical – prophetic

Griseous -streaked or mixed with grey

Malison – a curse

Manseutude -gentleness or kindness

Muliebrity – the condition of being a woman

Niddering – cowardly

Nitid -bright, glistening

Olid – foul-smelling

Periapt – combative, antagonistic or contrary

Recrement – waste matter, refuse dross

Roborant – tending to fortify or increase strength

Vaticinate – to foretell, prophesy