decoting

The caudillo's preferred method and numen of decocting viands was an arcanum known only to the haberdasher and rampant kobold lackeys.

Ron's espial of the vapid nebulization of the volitant langoustine's rubiginous soft drink was not enough to keep him at the kiosk.

His gung ho attitude was deciduous; after weeks in the practicum John was recalcitrant and pedantic.

Vivifying the lunette clitellum of the worm went against its natural languor.

• caudillo: 1. A leader or chief, especially a military dictator. 2. A political boss; an overlord.
• numen: 1. A presiding divinity or spirit of a place. 2. A spirit believed by animists to inhabit certain natural phenomena or objects. 3. Creative energy; genius. [from MW pad calendar: DID YOU KNOW?How did numen, a Latin term meaning “nod of the head,” come to be associated with spiritual power? The answer lies in the fact that the ancient Romans saw divine force and power operating in inanimate objects and nonhuman phenomena around them. They believed that the gods had the power to command events and to consent to actions, and the nodding of a god would suggest his or her awesome abilities—divine power. Eventually, Latin-speakers began using numen to describe the special divine force of any object, place, or phenomenon that inspired awe (a mystical-seeming wooded grove, for example, or the movement of the sun), and the word made a leap in meaning from “nod” to “divine will or power.” English-speakers adopted the word during the 1600s.]
• decoct: 1. To extract the flavor of by boiling. 2. To make concentrated; boil down.
• viand: 1a. An item of food. b. A very choice or delicious dish. 2. viands Provisions; victuals.
• arcanum: 1. A deep secret; a mystery. 2. often arcana Specialized knowledge or detail that is mysterious to the average person: “knows the arcana of police procedure and the intricacies of litigation” (George F. Will). 3. A secret essence or remedy; an elixir.
• haberdasher: 1. A dealer in men's furnishings. 2. Chiefly British A dealer in sewing notions and small wares.
• kobold: 1. An often mischievous household elf in German folklore. 2. A gnome that haunts underground places in German folklore. [see also cobalt]
  
• rampant: 1. Extending unchecked; unrestrained: a rampant growth of weeds in the neglected yard. 2. Occurring without restraint and frequently, widely, or menacingly; rife: a rampant epidemic; rampant corruption in city government. 3a. Rearing on the hind legs. b. Heraldry Rearing on the left hind leg with the forelegs elevated, the right above the left, and usually with the head in profile. 4. Architecture Springing from a support or an abutment that is higher at one side than at the other: a rampant arch.
• lackey: 1. A liveried male servant; a footman. 2. A servile follower; a toady.
• espial: 1. The act of watching or observing; observation. 2. A taking notice of something; a discovery. 3. The fact of being seen or noticed.
• vapid: 1. Lacking liveliness, animation, or interest; dull: vapid conversation. 2. Lacking taste, zest, or flavor; flat: vapid beer.
• nebulize: 1. To convert (a liquid) to a fine spray; atomize. 2. To treat with a medicated spray.
• volitant: 1. Flying or capable of flying. 2. Moving about rapidly.
• langoustine: A large, edible prawn.
• rubiginous: Rust-colored; reddish-brown.
• kiosk: 1. A small open gazebo or pavilion. 2. A small structure, often open on one or more sides, used as a newsstand or booth. 3. A cylindrical structure on which advertisements are posted. WORD HISTORY: The lowly kiosk where newspapers are sold or advertisements are posted is like a child in a fairy tale raised by humble parents but descended from kings. The word kiosk was originally taken into English from Turkish, in which its source kök meant “pavilion.” The open structures referred to by the Turkish word were used as summerhouses in Turkey and Persia. The first recorded use of kiosk in English (1625) refers to these Middle Eastern pavilions, which Europeans imitated in their own gardens and parks. In France and Belgium, where the Turkish word had also been borrowed, their word kiosque was applied to something lower on the scale, structures resembling these pavilions but used as places to sell newspapers or as bandstands. England borrowed this lowly structure from France and reborrowed the word, which is first recorded in 1865 with reference to a place where newspapers are sold.
• gung ho: Slang Extremely enthusiastic and dedicated. OUR LIVING LANGUAGE: Most of us are not aware of it today, but the word gung ho has been in English only since 1942 and is one of the many words that entered the language as a result of World War II. It comes from Mandarin Chinese gnghé, “to work together,” which was used as a motto by the Chinese Industrial Cooperative Society. Lieutenant Colonel Evans F. Carlson (1896–1947) borrowed the motto as a moniker for meetings in which problems were discussed and worked out; the motto caught on among his Marines (the famous “Carlson's Raiders”), who began calling themselves the “Gung Ho Battalion.” From there eager individuals began to be referred to as gung ho. Other words and expressions that entered English during World War II include flak, gizmo, task force, black market, and hit the sack.
• deciduous: 1. Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth: deciduous antlers; deciduous leaves; deciduous teeth. 2. Shedding or losing foliage at the end of the growing season: deciduous trees. 3. Not lasting; ephemeral.
• practicum: A school or college course, especially one in a specialized field of study, that is designed to give students supervised practical application of previously studied theory: advanced practicums in teaching reading.
• recalcitrant: Marked by stubborn resistance to and defiance of authority or guidance. See synonyms at unruly.
• vivify: 1. To give or bring life to; animate: vivify a puppet; vivifying the brown grasslands. 2. To make more lively, intense, or striking; enliven: A smile may vivify a face.
• lunette: 1. Architecture a. A small, circular or crescent-shaped opening in a vaulted roof. b. A crescent-shaped or semicircular space, usually over a door or window, that may contain another window, a sculpture, or a mural. 2. A fortification that has two projecting faces and two parallel flanks. 3. A broad, low-lying, typically crescent-shaped mound of sandy or loamy matter that is formed by the wind, especially along the windward side of a lake basin.
• clitellum: A swollen, glandular, saddlelike region in the epidermis of certain annelid worms, such as the earthworm, that secretes a viscous fluid to form a cocoon for their eggs.
• languor: 1. Lack of physical or mental energy; listlessness. See synonyms at lethargy. 2. A dreamy, lazy mood or quality: “It was hot, yet with a sweet languor about it” (Theodore Dreiser). 3. Oppressive quiet or stillness.