Here are some cool words I've come across lately:
redoubt: (n) a small, usually temporary fortification; any stronghold
demesne: (n) the land around a mansion; lands of an estate
bespoke: (adj) custom or custom-made; made to order
distaff: (n) a woman's work or domain; (adj) maternal, female
anathema: (n) a thing or person accursed or damned; (adj) greatly detested, viewed as accursed or damned
inchoate: (adj) just begun, in the early states, incipient; not yet clearly formed or organized
lexicon: (n) the vocabulary of a language, speaker or subject; terms used in a particular profession
samizdat: (n) a system by which manuscripts denied official publication in the Soviet Union were circulated clandestinely in typescript or mimeograph form
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