UNIQUE WORDS game to increase our vocabulary - alphabetical order

Jelangkung is an Indonesian folk ritual of communicating with spirits of the dead

Nondirective:  of, relating to, or being a psychotherapeutic or counseling technique in which the therapist takes an unobtrusive role in order to encourage free expression and problem resolution by the client or patient. 

Preponderance: superiority in weight, force, importance, or influence

Touchstone:  a hard black stone, such as jasper or basalt, formerly used to test the quality of gold or silver by comparing the streak left on the stone by one of these metals with that of a standard alloy.

an excellent quality or example that is used to test the excellence or genuineness of others.

Verisimilar: appearing to be true or real; probable.

xenophobia: fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign. 

synonyms: prejudice, intolerance, bigotry, insularity, parochialism, isolationism, ethnocentrism, ethnocentricity, racism, racialism, nationalism, jingoism