LYCHNOBITE

[noun]

one who labors at night and sleeps in the day.

Etymology: Greek lychnos - a lamp + bios - life.

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SUPINE

[adjective]

1. lying on the back or having the face upward.

2. having the palm upward (of the hand).

3. inactive, passive, or inert, especially from indolence or indifference; lethargy.

4. Inclined; sloping.

Etymology: from Latin supīnus, “lying face up, inactive”.

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ELDRITCH

[adjective]

unearthly, alien, supernatural, weird, spooky, eerie.

Etymology: of uncertain origin. Possibly from Middle English eldrich, from earlier elrich, equivalent to Old English el- (or Elf), “foreign, strange, other” + rīċe, “realm, kingdom”; hence “of a strange country, pertaining to the Otherworld” or “Fairyland”; compare Old English ellende, “in a foreign land, exiled” (compare German Elend, “penury, distress” and Dutch ellende, “misery”), Runic Norse alja-markir, “foreigner”.

VORAGINOUS

[adjective]

pertaining to something which devours everything

Etymology: Italian voragine, “chasm, abyss”, from Latin vorare, “devour” + -ous, a suffix forming adjectives that have the general sense “possessing, full of” a given quality”.

FLAGITIOUS

[adjective]

1. shamefully wicked, as persons, actions, or times.

2. heinous or flagrant, as a crime; infamous; villainous.

Etymology: Old French flagitieux or Latin flāgitiōsus, both ultimately from flāgitium, “shameful crime”.