Wacky Words

quail - to lose heart : cower
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bosky, Having an abundance of trees, shrubs, or underbrush.
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adamantine - made of or having the quality of adamant, rigidly firm, unyielding, resembling the diamond in hardness or luster
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diapause, a period of physiologically enforced dormancy between periods of activity.
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pantheism, a doctrine that equates God with the forces and laws of the universe.
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couvade, a custom, among certain tribes, that when a woman gives birth to a child her husband takes to his bed, as if ill.
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boustrophedonic, Pertaining to lines of writing that run right to left, then left to right, etc.
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philippic - a discourse or declamation full of bitter condemnation, tirade
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juxtaposition, a placing or being placed in nearness or side by side.
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eponyms, a person for whom something is named, or something named after a person.

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