Pedantry: n. the character, qualities, practices, etc., of a pedant, especially undue display of learning.
Odious: Adj. deserving or causing hatred
Luxuriant: adj. abundant or lush in growth
Dictum: n. an authoritative pronouncment
Cacophony: n. harsh discordance of sound
Proclivity: n. natural inclination or tendency
Proboscis: n. the trunk of an elephant
Stratum: n. a layer of material
Mausoleum: a magnificent tomb
Marionette: n. a puppet controlled by strings
Phoenix: n. a mythical bird of great beauty fabled to live 500 or 600 years in the Arabian wilderness, to burn itself on a funeral pyre, and to rise from its ashes in the freshness of youth and live through another cycle of years
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