Words I’ve had to learn to read the first few chapters of “Tristram Shandy”
- vaticination - prophecy or foreknowledge (not what it sounds like)
- heteroclite - irregular or deviant (I should have guessed)
- declension - a decline or downward slope (literal or abstract)
- cervantic - (not in any dictionary, but its meaning is clear if subtle)
- panegyric - elaborate oration or praise ( I knew that)
