Vocabulary

Every now and then, usually when reading Chabon, I'll make a vocabulary list. These words aren't necessarily ones of which I don't know their meaning, but words that I've never used in my writing. This list comes from Michael Chabon's twenty-page short story, A Model World.

• ascetic
• elucidated
• ignoble
• taqueria
• evanescence
• semiotician
• pedantry
• rapt
• voluble
• probity
• aboriginal