I bet you don’t know what all these words mean…

 I love words. I love their exactitude. Their nuances. The following 38 words are from Mervyn Peake’s Titus Groan. See how many you know, and leave me a comment below.
 

• Adroitly, attenuate, blazoned, calid, cantonment

 

• Chagrin, circumfusion, conviviality, curlew, denizens,

 

• Dewlaps, ferrule, guttered, lambent, lugubrious,

 

• Mantillas, menials, mirthlessly, multifarious, palliative,

 

• Peregrine, peremptory, phalanx, ponderous, precipitous,

 

• Propinquital, pullation, rabous, recrudescent, ribald,

 

• Sagaciously, spilths, swarmed, taciturn, truculence,

 

• Turgid, unexpansive, welkin.

 
JR x​