• witticism - a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to invoke laughter
  • nostrum - hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; once sought by alchemists
  • brusquely - in a blunt direct manner
  • ineffable - defying expression or description
  • filch - make off with the belongings of others
  • spome - is any hypothetical system closed with respect to matter and open with respect to energy capable of sustaining human life indefinitely
  • munificent - very generous

From: Is Anyone There by Isaac Asimov

  • hagiography - a biography that idolizes or idealizes the person (especially a person called a “saint”)

Word drop by !FlyingSquid@lemmy.world