1. super — [informal] supernumerary
I thought those NPCs were just supers in the adventure after the opening, so I didn’t bring their characters sheets or figures with me for this session.
2. desuetude — disuse, discontinuance of practice
His words came croaking and halting, as if his very power of speech had fallen into desuetude during his long sojourn as a silent hermit.
3. bantling — [archaic] young child; bastard child
“Aye! Let the bantling lead the army, and watch his father’s hopes and plans fall into ruin as the lad’s untested steel shatters against Lord Henry’s battle-hardened soldiery!”
4. kalsomine — calcimine, whitewash
An attempt to spruce up the appearance of the hut by applying a thin layer of kalsomine had failed utterly.
5. lute — sticky clay
Jerry slathered lute at the joint to prevent another such accident from happening the next time the downstairs fireplace was used.
6. lute — to attach or to fix with lute
Of course each of these joints must be well luted or the apparatus will allow air into your mixture, likely ruining all your hard efforts.
7. divaricate — to spread apart, to diverge
Their focus upon these strange fancies caused their beliefs and rituals to divaricate farther and farther from the true faith.
8. concupiscence — overwhelming desire, esp. sexual
But for this concupiscence of his youth he had substituted a lust for fame, which, once it was gained, led him into the still greater sin of pride.
9. parure — jewelry set designed to be worn as an ensemble
This was good news indeed, but the most important piece of the parure, the large black diamond pendant originally the centerpiece of the necklace, still had not been found.
10. dindle — to tingle; to tremble
My left leg had ‘fallen asleep’ (as they say) from being folded beneath the other for so long, and as we staggered through the darksome woods it began to ‘wake up’, and the strange aching and dindling running down my calves into my ankle so plagued me that I almost (almost!) forgot our loathsome pursuers.
Bonus Vocabulary
(psychology)
hyperekplexia — condition characterized by overlarge startle response to unexpected stimuli
His anxious overreacting to everything—which he claims is diagnosed hyperekplexia and I think is simply histrionics—means that you have to ever so gently enter the room and murmur his name in a bare whisper until he deigns to respond to your mild call.