More Vancebulary

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Squamous
Dastard
Spume
Bollard
Sententiousness
Expostulation
Taffrail
Devolvement
Indite
Galleass
Epicene
Unctuous
Bestir
Withe
Trice
Drover
Postern
Arras
Catechumen
Immure
Lineament
Abstruse
Toothsome
Stridency
Withal
Churl
Approbation
Bedizen
Tarn
Caprice
Philtre
Dissemble
Excrescence
Chancre
Whorl
Mooncalf
Cess
Priapic
Deputation
Surcease
Censer
Kickshaw
Sward
Objurgation
Bartizan
Flitch
Cavil
Embrasure
Merlon
Onager
Scullion
Intercessor
Sybaritic
Analept
Anodyne
Alleviant
Embrocation
Jupon
Ostler
Ostlery
Entabulature
Caparison
Tuppet
Molder
Hawser
Thrall
Requital
Crepuscule
Equipoise
Bight


As to the book itself, I'm again a bit conflicted. Vance occasionally treats his characters rather cruelly, or specifically kills them against common convention. Also, occasionally he gets lost in side threads that don't eventually have much to do with the main plot(s). In Lyonesse past the midpoint the work started to lose cohesion, though it did end up tightening up towards the slightly rushed end. Still, his take on the faeries of the Elder Isles is something I wish he wrote more about, it being a very much classic folklore view. Overall, three out of five stars, four if you're a language nerd. Despite all the shortcomings, I find myself constantly enthralled by the curlicues of his prose, even aside from the weird words -- which incidentally have lead me to understand the roots of several commonly used words better (enthralled, betrothed and alleviate spring to mind) aside from teaching me vocabulary that will be useful if only I remember it.