From the Depths of the Dictionary

Now this article is just here to provide you with a larger vocabulary, what I do is write a list of words from A to Z that most people have never heard of. It is still wicked hot out so my brain is having a hard time concentrating on interesting topics. Now some of the words are a bit familiar, such as the letters B and X, while others I've never heard of but you should learn something. And for those wondering what the image is today look at the letter W. So here is the first edition of From the Depths of the Dictionary:

Aurum - gold
Bovine - ox like
Collunarium - nose drops
Dislimn - to obliterate
Entophyte - a plant growing in an animal
Funambulist - a tightrope walker
Gerah - a Hebrew weight unit
Hokum - nonsense
Intumesce - to bubble up
Jocund - cheerful
Kismet - destiny
Lamiaceous - belonging to the mint family
Mitrailleuse - a French machine gun
Nystagmus - an involuntary oscillation of the eyeball
Obduce - to conceal
Pentad - a period of five years
Quondam - formerly existed
Ratel - a badger like carnivore
Suprarenal - above the kidney
Trechant - keen
Uxoricide - one who kills his wife
Vim - energy, force
Wivern - a two legged dragon
Xi - the fourteenth letter of the Greek alphabet
Yoicks - cry made to urge fox hunting hounds
Zaptiah - a Turkish policeman