2) Cacodemonomania - The pathological belief that one is inhabited by an evil spirit
3) Fanfaronade - Swaggering; empty boasting; blustering manner or behavior; ostentatious display
4) Gorgonize - To have a paralysing or mesmerising effect on: Stupefy or Petrify
5) Hamartia - The character flaw or error of a tragic hero that leads to his downfall
6) Jettatura - The casting of an evil eye
7) Noegenesis - Production of knowledge
Pogonotrophy - The act of cultivating, or growing and grooming, a mustache, beard, sideburns or other facial hair
9) Tarantism - A disorder characterised by an uncontrollable urge to dance
10) Ultracrepidarian - A person who gives opinions and advice on matters outside of one’s knowledge
11) Yonderly - Mentally or emotionally distant; absent-minded
12) Zugzwang - A position in which any decision or move will result in problems
13) Acersecomic - A person whose hair has never been cut.
14) Dactylion - An anatomical landmark located at the tip of the middle finger.
15) Enantiodromia - The conversion of something into its opposite.
16) Infandous - Unspeakable or too odious to be expressed or mentioned.
17) Ktenology - The science of putting people to death.]
18) Leptosome - A person with a slender, thin, or frail body.
19) Montivagant - Wandering over hills and mountains.
20) Ostentiferous - Bringing omens or unnatural or supernatural manifestations.
21) Quockerwodger - A rare nineteenth-century word for a wooden toy which briefly became a political insult.
22) Recumbentibus - A knockout punch, either verbal or physical.
23) Scripturient - Possessing a violent desire to write.
24) Ultracrepidarian - A person who gives opinions and advice on matters outside of one’s knowledge.
25) Vernalagnia - A romantic mood brought on by Spring.
26) Welter - A confused mass; a jumble; turmoil or confusion.
27) Xenization - The act of traveling as a stranger.
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