1. equipollent — of equal power; logically equivalent
The first mistake in Wilber’s reasoning came when he declared that this negation was equipollent with absence, whereas even a schoolchild could have told him that not getting dessert was not the same as getting nothing at all.
2. misease — [archaic] misery, discomfort, suffering
The solitary life which had been to him a comfort now turned to great misease as he sorely felt the want of friends and had to rely upon paid companions and servitors.
3. againward — once more; back again
Though his troth he plighted that Whitsuntide Eve, never to return, still he found his steed leading him againward ever and anon so heartsick was his longing.
4. agal — cord around keffiyeh holding it in place
Of course, if you simply find it too difficult to properly wrap the keffiyeh, you can use an agal to hold it upon your head, though you lose much of the protective usefulness of the headgear.
5. hexapod — animal having six feet, insect
“In the continuing war for survival between man and the hexapods, only an utter fool would bet against the insect.”
(from the 1954 film Mesa Of Lost Women)
6. empyema — condition wherein pus collects in bodily cavity, particularly in the pleural cavity
They still gave him a medal, though he died from an empyema and not from German bullets, and his hometown buried him like a hero, with a monument and speeches and all.
7. evilfavoredness — state of being ill favored
I do not say he is evil, but he is plagued by such evilfavoredness that his company is not such as I would care to enjoy.
8. keratolysis — shedding of the epidermis, esp. its horny layers
Peter ascribed the funk of his room to his pitted keratolysis, which we all simply called ‘stinkfoot’.
9. minutia — tiny detail (usu. pl.)
He often gets bogged down in the minutiae of a problem, missing the main point entirely.
10. scurryfunge — [obsolete] to rush about cleaning one’s house just before company comes over
Wilma and Jeffrey only called as they were exiting the freeway, so I hardly had any time for cleaning house and only scurryfunged for ten minutes hiding this and moving that before I heard their knock upon my front door.
Bonus Vocabulary
(architecture)
coping stone — stone forming the uppermost course of a wall; utmost or completing element
Doctor Jackson felt that his work on semi-particulate flow would be the coping stone of his life’s work, but his colleagues feared that it was simply another seductive dead end, like fractals.