Words to Know Before You Start Reading That Novel-Length Fanfiction

The First Risen (United States of America)
A list of words that will help you get through that weirdly paced action sequence, or maybe that badly written smut scene. Taken from numerous fanfics I have read over the years.
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  1. ataxia
    inability to coordinate voluntary muscle movements
  2. brook
    put up with something or somebody unpleasant
  3. calumniate
    charge falsely or with malicious intent
  4. conscription
    compulsory military service
  5. coquettishly
    in a flirtatious manner
  6. deplorable
    bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure
  7. derision
    the act of treating with contempt
  8. domicile
    housing that someone is living in
  9. egress
    come out of
  10. eke out
    live from day to day, as with some hardship
  11. elucidation
    an act of explaining that serves to cast light on
  12. emesis
    the reflex act of ejecting the contents of the stomach through the mouth
  13. equanimity
    steadiness of mind under stress
  14. erstwhile
    belonging to some prior time
  15. flotsam
    the floating wreckage of a ship
  16. heretofore
    up to this point or up to the present time
  17. ire
    anger; irritability
  18. jetsam
    part of a ship's cargo thrown overboard to lighten the load
  19. jury-rigged
    done or made using whatever is available
  20. klaxon
    a loud electric horn
  21. minutia
    a small or minor detail
  22. nascent
    being born or beginning
  23. numinous
    of or relating to or characteristic of a spirit
  24. obfuscate
    make obscure or unclear
  25. ostensibly
    from appearances alone
  26. palpitate
    beat rapidly
  27. paradigm
    a standard or typical example
  28. perfunctory
    hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough
  29. perturbed
    thrown into a state of agitated confusion
  30. pillion
    a seat behind the rider of a horse or motorbike etc.
  31. pining
    a feeling of deep longing
  32. platitude
    a trite or obvious remark
  33. proprietary
    protected by trademark or patent or copyright
  34. reconcile
    come to terms
  35. saturnine
    bitter or scornful
  36. scintillating
    having brief brilliant points or flashes of light
  37. shirk
    avoid one's assigned duties
  38. sultry
    attractive and suggesting hidden passion
  39. surreptitiously
    in a secretive manner
  40. tenuous
    having thin consistency
  41. vitrify
    change into glass or a glass-like substance by applying heat
  42. xenophobia
    a fear of foreigners or strangers
  43. yearn
    desire strongly or persistently
  44. yield
    give or supply
  45. riposte
    a quick reply to a question or remark
Created on Sun Dec 15 17:15:58 EST 2013 (updated Fri Aug 12 18:21:27 EDT 2016)

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