1. bleck — black fluid; soot, smut
He broke up the blecks at the back of the fireplace with a long staff of ash.
2. abulia — loss or severe reduction of volition, as symptom of mental disorder
With the unending drumbeat of bad and worse news, how long before a citizen just gives up entirely, before a social and political abulia removes every impulse he or she may have to do something, anything, in the face of continued setbacks and failures and perversions of political will?
3. machicolated — provided with openings between parapets or flooring through which stones or other defensive weapons may be hurled or dropped
We were advised to be careful when walking upon the machicolated open-work battlements, so as not to stumble into one of the defensive apertures.
4. naker — kettledrum
Sound the trumpets and nakers and let all be merry who enter into this happy hall.
5. dorsum — back of an animal; outer or convex part of organ
On closer examination, a tiny tattoo was found on the posterior dorsum of the victim’s tongue, appearing quite recently made.
6. dispart — to separate into parts; to cleave
Slowly her sobs subsided, and eventually she looked up from her tear-dampened locks, and her lips disparted to reveal a beautiful smile, and she said in a voice like an exhalation, “The pain has gone.”
7. névé — granular glacier snow, firn
The névé of the glacier spreads all the way up to the very peak of the mountain.
8. almoner — distributor of alms; hospital social worker
But Forleigh thought the almoner‘s position required more, and made sure the charitable coffers were filled by continually dunning the less compassionate parishioners to do more for their fellows.
9. full — to clean and thicken cloth
He acted as if the best way to teach these difficult lessons was to beat them into his pupils as a fuller fulls cloth.
10. rubefacient — causing redness or slight irritation
The hand cream contained olive oil, to which she was allergic, so that it had a contrary and rubefacient effect, leaving her hands more cracked than ever.