And Now, Without Further Ado...

Forthwith, the contents of my fancy word list, compiled over the last year (whenever I come across a word not firmly lodged in my vocabulary, why, I look it up, and feel better):

coruscate
paladin
puisne
exchequer
variegate
pecuniary
adumbrate
captious
didactic
trope
metonymy
synecdoche
atavistic
recreant
ad hominem
execrated
sine qua non
pedantic/donnish
nous
redound
apotheosis
lugubrious
vulpine
sui generis
samizdat
filigree
autodidact
dissimulation
farrago
locative
emoluments
martinet
equipoise
tremulous
punctilio
penurious
parsimony
ratiocination
chiaroscuro
hortatory
tonsorial
farrago
emendation
provenance
littoral
elegiac
prosaic