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cognizance
[kog-nuh-zuhns]
awareness, realization, or knowledge; notice; perception

diaphanous
[dahy-af-uh-nuhs]
very sheer and light; almost completely transparent or translucent

bellicose
[bel-i-kohs]
inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile; belligerent; pugnacious

cromlech
[krom-lek]
(no longer in technical use) a megalithic chamber tomb

peregrinate
[per-i-gruh-neyt]
to travel or journey, especially to walk on foot

bugbear
[buhg-bair]
a cause of obsessive fear, irritation, or loathing

oxymoron
[ok-si-mawr-on]
a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in “cruel kindness” or “to make haste slowly"

pendulous
[pen-juh-luhs]
hanging down loosely

plenteous
[plen-tee-uhs]
plentiful; copious; abundant

emollient
[ih-mol-yuhnt]
an emollient medicine, lotion, salve, etc.

equivocal
[ih-kwiv-uh-kuhl]
allowing the possibility of several different meanings, as a word or phrase, especially with intent to deceive or misguide; susceptible of double interpretation; deliberately ambiguous

parsimonious
[pahr-suh-moh-nee-uhs]
unwilling to spend money or use resources

ailurophile
[ahy-loor-uh-fahyl]
a person who likes cats; cat fancier

micawber
[mi-caw-ber]
one who is poor but lives in optimistic expectation of better fortune

bandicoot
[ban-di-koot]
a mainly insectivorous marsupial native to Australia and New Guinea

winebibber
[wahyn-bib-er]
a person who drinks a lot wine