1. grom — [slang] young surfer; youth on a board of the various types (wake-, snow-, skate-; i.e., not corporate)
That pesky grom really got worked when he took off on the wrong wave at the reef break.
2. reata — lariat, lasso
Scotch Bill dallied the rawhide reata around his saddlehorn as he prepared to go after the spooked steer.
3. ingle — [obsolete] fireplace
We found the old man asleep—passed out drunk, more likely—in front of the ingle, his tattered boots almost touching the flames.
4. functor — [mathematics] mapping of one category to another in category theory; thingies serving a similar purpose in language (function words) or programming (function objects)
In this overheated political environment it becomes obvious that each accusation is a functor pointing to actual activities on the part of the accuser, similar (though orthogonal to) to Evans-Wentz’s analysis of witchcraft accusations.
5. megaderm — blood-sucking bat of Asia and Africa
The Lyre Bat has the largest ears and nose leaf of all the megaderms, and this so-called ‘vampire bat’ may be found throughout the subcontinent.
6. lagan — goods or cargo sunk at sea which may yet be claimed by original owner
Before the ship foundered the crates of whisky were jettisoned with a buoy attached so that legally the cargo became lagan and could not be considered part of the impending wreck upon the treacherous shore.
7. gantlet (also gauntlet) — punishment in which two rows of attackers beat the victim running between them; trying ordeal, esp. as penance or discipline
After her testimony Ellie was forced to run the gantlet of her co-workers’ glares and sneers each day as she made her way to her desk at the back of the boiler room.
8. factoid — falsehood repeated in media so often it becomes accepted as true; minor or trivial item of information
The widely accepted factoid that humans only use 10% of their brain power may originate in the bizarre studies of William James and Boris Sidis of the latter’s son, who became an obsessive expert in the field of urban train and bus transfers, or peridromophily.
9. misprize — to undervalue, to be contemptuous of, to fail to appreciate
Betty realized then that she had been cruelly misprized, not only by her supposed beau Georges, but by all the men of her acquaintance, ever since she had left The Lodgings.
10. hurple — [obsolete] to crouch, to hunch over; to limp
Drymoat Pete slunk out of the shadowed doorway, hurpling against the cold and pulling his tattered cloak closer to his shivering shoulders.
Bonus Vocabulary
(heterodox Islamic belief)
Alevism — subsect of Twelver Shi’a mysticism
Though the followers of Turkish Alevism are certainly put upon by orthodox Muslims, it is the Kurdish sect which has suffered most in the recent century, as in the Maraş massacre of 1978.