Wordlist of the week
As suggested by Old Crooked Beak, I will be putting this week's words in context for you.
Sunday - libanopherous ("He cradled her head to his neck, breathing her libanopherous hair." - Theroux, Darconville's Cat)
Monday - brindize ("I took the initiative in glass-clinking. 'To the happy couple, I brindized.'" - Nabokov, Ada)
Tuesday - scoriac ("My single sip of her was a conflagration in the arteries, a Vesuvius to erupt and gush in scoriac torrents." - Foxell, Carnival)
Wednesday - quincunx ("Quatrefages knew the whereabouts of the orchard with its fabled quincunx of trees?" - Durrell, Constance)
Thursday - inesculent ("The ragout de bully? So gray, just like dear summoning Bernard, and quite as inesculent." - Burgess, Earthly Powers)
Friday - dyadic ("His own life then was a bitter contradiction of that dyadic principle of thought in which an element complements its opposite." - DeLillo, Ratner's Star)
Saturday - palimpsest ("Then I withdrew to escape her claws, which had already made my poor back and face a palimpsest of music paper that needed only the notes pricked out to sing, 'Woe, for my love lies bleeding' by." - Cameron, Our Jo)
Incidentally, if you want to stay ahead of me, pick up a wonderful book called The Logodaedalian's Dictionary, by George Stone Saussy III. Many of the words featured herein come from that invaluable resource.
8:31:29 PM 
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