and a word list

here is a list of some words that i've found interesting - some are words that i didn't know at all and have had to look up, and others are words that i don't see used often and, while i either knew them from my bookwormy life or could guess meaning from context, had to look up to make sure i understood the whole definition.

all of them come from textbooks i've used either this semester or the spring semester from last year (yes, i make lists of words from textbooks. i embrace my nerdiness.)

subjugated
quixotic
intransigent
intractable
iconoclastic
seminal
mendacity
ossified
exigency
nascent
appropriated
magisterial
ecclesiasticism
salacious
tabula rasa
vicissitudes
hydrology
alacrity
koan
tautological
post hoc
quintessence
pneumatic
antiphonal
epiphytic
reticulate
metaphysical
ontologically
prolegomena
paucity
melioristic
gravimetric
adsorption
invagination
endosymbiont
oncogenes
autophagy
endocytosis
caspases
prototroph
auxotroph
sarcoma
cyclins
trillium
undulant


beautiful, aren't they?
makes me want to go read a dictionary.