Rodomontade (noun)
rod-oh-mon-taid
Boastful or inflated talk or behaviour.
Early 17th century: from French, from obsolete Italian rodomontada, from Italian rodomonte, from the name of a boastful character in the medieval Orlando epics.
Example sentences
“I’m sick of his ‘best of everything’ rodomontade.”
“He’s total nonsense, a big bag of rodomontade.”
Arcane (adj)
ah-kain
Understood by few; mysterious or secret.
Mid 16th century: from Latin arcanus, from arcere ‘to shut up’, from arca ‘chest’.
Sagacious (adj)
sag-ay-shus
Having or showing keen mental discernment and good judgement; wise or shrewd.
Early 17th century: from Latin sagax, sagac- ‘wise’ + -ious.
Roil (verb)
royl
move, or make move in a turbulent, swirling manner.
Late 16th century: perhaps from Old French ruiler ‘mix mortar’, from late Latin regulare ‘regulate’.
Quoth (verb) (archaic) (humorous)
kwoth
Said (used only in first and third person singular before the subject)
Middle English: past tense of obsolete quethe ‘say, declare’, of Germanic origin.
Perendinate (verb) (historic)
pe-ren-din-ait
Put off until the day after tomorrow.
From latin Latin perendinare
Exigent (adj)
ex-ij-ent
Pressing; demanding.
Early 17th century: from Latin exigent- ‘completing, ascertaining’, from the verb exigere (see exact).