god i love the woman.
yen very sweetly got the fadiman from the library and sent me this list so vocab quiz time (answers not at bottom!)
i quite clearly remember that su-lin's definition for aspergill was: the breathing apparatus of a long, stem-like vegetable, and for agathodemon: spirits called up by a certain form of crime novel. i have a feeling she also said that mephitic was a prehistoric age when moths ruled the earth.
monophysite
mephitic
calineries
diapason
grimoire
adapertile
retromingent
perllan
cupellation
adytum
sepoy
subadar
paludal
apozemical
camorroa
ithyphallic
alcalde
aspergill
agathodemon
kakodemon
goetic
opopanax