Tough words

 I just finished reading “Over the Edge of the World” – Magellan’s terrifying circumnavigation of the Globe.  Whenever I see a word I’m not 100% sure of I write it down and look it up.  This book had SO MANY words I looked up…made me feel pretty stupid.  A few I was pretty sure of what they meant but wanted to make sure but most I had no clue.  The book was an excellent read.
 
Alguacil
Alms
Ardent
Arquebuses
Balanghai
Besought
Brocade
Capacious
Cerulean
Corpulent
Coterie
Cuirasses
Damasks
Debouched
Decorous
Desirous
Discordant
Doge
Doubling
Ducats
Effaced
Elegiac
Enjoined
Equinoctial
Escutcheon
Evinces
Execrable
Expiation
Fetters
Garrulous
Imbued
Implacable
Indemnify
Inveigled
Ire
Itinerant
Legerdemain
Mendicant
Miasma
Neologism
Obeisance
Occident
Odysseus
Palisade
Paragon
Parricide
Perdition
Perfidy
Perspicacious
Plighted
Potentate
Profligacy
Propitiating
Quailed
Quixotic
Recalcitrant
Repose
Retinue
Saturnine
Soporific
St Catherine's Wheel
Supernumerary
Swound
Thrall
Torpid
Vacillating
Vainglorious
Vanguard
Vassal
Vellum
Volte
Waited Penelope like