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[noun]

cemetery; churchyard; graveyard; burial ground; necropolis.

NOCTIVAGANT

[adjective]

going about in the night; night-wandering.

Etymology: Latin nox, noctis, “night” + vagans, past participle of vagary, “to wander about”.

KOSZMAR

[noun]

nightmare; a frightening or unpleasant dream.

Etymology: Polish, from French, from Middle French cauchemare, from Old French cauquemare; composed by two elements, blend of cauche (ultimately from Latin calcō, “trample, tread on”) and mar (ultimately from Proto-Germanic *marǭ, “nightmare, incubus”, from Proto-Indo-European *mor-, “malicious female spirit”.

Achromatic, Alabaster, Albino, Albugineous, Anaemic, Anti-flash white, Antique white, Argent, Baby powder, Beige, Blanched, Bleach, Bloodless, Bone, Cacholong, Cadaverous, Calcimine, Canescent, Ceruse, Chalky, Colourless, Cornsilk, Cosmic latte, Cream, Cretaceous, Eburnean, Frost, Ghost white, Hoary, Incanous, Ivory, Leucochroic, Leuko-, Marmoreal, Milky, Moonbeam, Navajo white, Neutral, Niveous, Ochroleucous, Old lace, Oyster white, Pale, Pallid, Pearl, Seashell, Silver, Snow, Vanilla, Wan, Whey, White wine.

Achromatic, Anthracite, Atramentous, Atroceruleous, Atrous, Bistre, Black bean, Black leather jacket, Black olive, Café noir aka black coffee, Carbon black (also known as acetylene black, channel black, furnace black, lamp black or thermal black), Charcoal, Charleston green, Ceylanite, Coal, Corbeau, Damson, Dusky, Ebeneous, Ebony, Fuliginous, Gloomy, Graphite, Ink, Jet, Licorice, Mars black, Melanoid, Murrey, Nigrescent, Nigrine, Obsidian, Onyx, Outer space, Piceous, Prune, Raven, Sable, Slate, Sloe, Smoky black, Sombre, Sooty, Stygian, Taupe.

Amaranth purple, Amethystine, Anil, Archil, Aubergine aka Eggplant, Bellflower, Boysenberry, Byzantium, Carpodacus, Cassius, Cold, Crocus, Cudbear, Damson, Fandango, Fuchsia, Germander, Grape, Gridelin, Halayà úbe, Han purple, Heliotrope, Hyacinthine, Ianthine, Indigo, Iris, Jacaranda, Lacmoid, Lavender, Lilac, Magenta, Mauve, Mountbatten pink, Mulberry, Murex, Orchid, Palatinate purple, Pansy, Periwinkle, Perse, Petunia, Plum, Porphyra, Porphyrous, Prune, Puce, Puniceous, Purpure, Raisin, Red-violet, Rose, Thistle, Trabea, Tyrian purple, Violaceous, Violet, Violet-blue, Wisteria.

INGENUITY

[noun]

1. the quality of being cleverly inventive or resourceful; inventiveness.

2. cleverness or skillfulness of conception or design.

3. an ingenious contrivance or device.

4. Obsolete: ingenuousness.

Etymology: from Latin ingenuitās, “a freeborn condition, outlook consistent with such a condition”, from ingenuus, “native, freeborn”.

MALFEASANCE

[noun]

1. the performance of an evil and/or harmful act.

2. the performance by a public official of an act that is legally unjustified, harmful, or contrary to law; wrongdoing (used especially of an act in violation of a public trust).

Etymology: from Old French mal faisant, from mal, “evil” + faisant, “doing”, from faire, “to do”, from Latin facere.

PANDEMONIUM

[noun]

1. wild uproar or unrestrained disorder; tumult or chaos.

2. a place or scene of riotous uproar or utter chaos.

3. (often initial capital letter) the abode of all the demons.

4. hell.

Etymology: after Pandaemonium, Milton’s name in Paradise Lost for the capital of hell; pan-, “all” + demon, from Greek daimónion, “thing of divine nature” (for Jewish and Christian writers, “evil spirit”) + -ium, a suffix found on nouns borrowed from Latin.

ANATHEMA

[noun]

1. a person or thing detest or loathed.

2. a person or thing accursed or consigned to damnation or destruction.

3. a form of ecclesiastical curse involving excommunication.

4. any imprecation of divine punishment.

5. a curse; execration.

Etymology: from Late Latin anathema, “curse, person cursed, offering”, from Ancient Greek ἀνάθεμα (anáthema, “something dedicated, especially dedicated to evil”), from ἀνατίθημι (anatíthēmi, “I set upon, offer as a votive gift”), from ἀνά (aná, “upon”) + τίθημι (títhēmi, “I put, place”).

PHLEBOTOMY

[noun]

the act or practice of opening a vein for letting blood as a therapeutic measure; venesection; bleeding.

Etymology: from Old French flebothomie, from Late Latin phlebotomia, from Greek phlebo-, combining form meaning “vein”, from phléps, “vein” + -tomy, a combining form meaning “cutting, incision” of an organ, “excision” of an object, from tome, “a cutting, section”.

SEDULOUS

[adjective]

1. diligent in application or attention; persevering; assiduous.

2. persistently or carefully maintained.

Etymology: Latin sēdulus, derived from the phrase sē dolō, “diligently”, literally, “without guile”; replacing sedulious.

FORMIDABLE

[adjective]

1. causing fear, apprehension, or dread.

2. of discouraging or awesome strength, size, difficulty, etc.; intimidating.

3. arousing feelings of awe or admiration because of grandeur, strength, etc.

4. of great strength; forceful; powerful.

Etymology: from Latin formīdābilis, from formīdāre, “to dread”, from formīdō, “fear”.

SLUMBEROUS

[adjective]

1. sleepy; heavy with drowsiness, as the eyelids.

2. causing or inducing sleep.

3. pertaining to, characterised by, or suggestive of slumber.

4. inactive or sluggish; calm or quiet.

Etymology: from Middle English slumeren, frequentative of slumen, “to doze”, derivative of Old English slūma, “sleep”.

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