You can be certain that a post is upcoming re. my reading Joseph and His Brothers. I finished the book itself Some Time Ago, and wrote a post about it that I allowed to sit on this site for about eight hours, after which I pulled it because it was Not Good.
I am in the process of improving it, but I am not in that process tonight, as I am Too Tired.
Instead, I am treating you to the contents of the back of my copy of the book, the last paper page of the (Rather Large) volume. Here is where I listed all the words Mann (or, rather, his translator, the venerable John E. Woods) used that I don’t know or am uncertain of.
If you know or are even mostly certain of these words, then Good For You. You are welcome to that (perhaps) feeling of smugness. If you don’t know them, then join the club. And maybe, like me, you’ll spend time looking them up, studying them, and working them into your (until now) impoverished vocabulary.
Brace yourself: It’s a Long List.
kobold
pejorative
truckling
sacerdotal
sardonic
numina
acuity
delimited
Habiritic
callow
recumbent
corundum
acrimony
crenelated
obeisance
cipher
abrogate
putative
tellurian
dioecious
pamicles
racimes
faience
moiety
hieratic
hortatory
lambent
lapidary
discursive
sobriquet
redound
slattern
demagogic
otiose
truculence
peroration
decoctions
electuary
tutelary
senescence
lapidify
superannuate
contumely
baldachin
uraeus
laconic
apotheosis
rodomontade
latifundia
epagomenal
sard
hierodules
levirate
tragacanth
plenipotentiary
contradistinction
attar
veilleinage
lustrum
catafalque
weft
