Davit - a small crane on board a ship, especially one of a pair for suspending or lowering a lifeboat.
egregious - conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
Fenestron - is a protected tail rotor of a helicopter operating like a ducted fan
garrulous - full of trivial conversation
Hodgepodge - a confused mixture
"Rob's living room was a hodgepodge of modern furniture and antiques"
iconoclast - someone who attacks cherished ideas or institutions
Jackstall - in helicopters, it's a flight configuration when the M/R blades overpower the hydraulic servos - and the controls lock solid. (The procedure to recover from it, is to off-load the main rotor blade system.)
Kremlin - a citadel within a Russian town.
Longueur - a tedious passage in a book or other work
malapropism - misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar
Neophyte - a person who is new to a subject, skill, or belief
Placebo - a substance that has no therapeutic effect, used as a control in testing new drugs.
a measure designed merely to calm or please someone.
Obdurate - stubbornly refusing to change one's opinion or course of action."I argued this point with him, but he was obdurate
parsimonious - excessively unwilling to spend
QUADRAGESIMAL - adjective, ARCHAIC(of a fast, especially one in Lent) lasting forty days.belonging or appropriate to the period of Lent.
