New and Exciting Words Part V

brigantine - sailing ship. two-masted vessel with square-rigged foremast and fore-and-aft main-mast
swarthy - dark-complexioned
lineament - feature (often plural)
singular - 1. remarkable 2. unusual 3. unique
curdle - turn into curd, coagulate
animadversion - n criticism, censure
gaunt - lean, haggard

Last of The Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper (1826). "Mislike me not for my complexion, The shadowed livery of the burnished sun" (Merchant of Venice).

Phrases

"Long in the tooth" - phrase originates from the fact that horse's teeth are often used to estimate the animal's age. Often used in the context of footballers.

New and Exciting Words Part IV

abet - assist or encourage, usually in wrongdoing
brasserie - a small restaurant serving beer and wine as well as food, usually cheap
working paper - preliminary scientific or technical paper designed to share ideas about a topic or to elicit feedback before submitting to a peer reviewed conference or academic journal
dovish - refers to an economic outlook in favour of low interest rates. Doves assert inflationary pressures are low enough for interest rates to be desirable. used to describe monetary policy actions and outlooks.
hawkish - high inflationary outlook. learn to detect when central bankers sounding dovish or hawkish
scion - descendant or heir, "scion of royal stock"
tinker - a person who enjoys fixing and experimenting with machines and parts