excogitate: to think out; devise; invent.
doyenne: a woman who is the senior member of a group, class, or profession.
neoterism: an innovation in language, as a new word, term, or expression.
birr: force; energy; vigor.
mettle: courage and fortitude.
educe: to draw forth or bring out, as something potential or latent.
deucedly: devilishly; damnably.
persnickety: overparticular; fussy.
perspicacious: having keen mental perception and understanding; discerning.
desinence: a termination or ending, as the final line of a verse.
bonny: pleasing to the eye.
paregmenon: the juxtaposition of words that have a common derivation, as in “sense and sensibility.”
profligacy: reckless extravagance.
sprat: a small or inconsequential person or thing.
fetial: concerned with declarations of war and treaties of peace.
truss: to tie, bind, or fasten.
anamnesis: the recollection or remembrance of the past.
interpolation: the act or process of introducing something additional or extraneous between other parts.
adventive: not native and usually not yet well established, as exotic plants or animals.