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There are a considerable number of words in Ra’s communication that the vast majority of English speakers have never heard nor will ever hear again. A few of those words were distortions of English originals that don’t quite exist in English. (“Pyramidical” being one such example.) Sometimes they are just generally uncommon. Many times the words were simply archaic, last used by English writers centuries ago. We’ve pondered the reason for the archaic varieties. Were they used because they offer a specificity of meaning not available in their more modern counterparts? Or perhaps they were used because to Ra, what is a few hundred human years? Ra could simply have been unaware that the term had fallen out of fashion sometime after Shakespeare, or just wanted to sound super smart.

Either way, for a culture that hasn’t had the need for spoken communication through word-symbols for millions of years and multiple densities of evolution, it is incredible that they could so expertly wield the English language—better, even, than most native English speakers.

This list includes a compilation of words that stand out to our eyes as unusual in and of themselves, or unusually used. As with any such list, it is made subjectively. The list began life as a gift from a person in the UK, and was built upon and enhanced by Carla Rueckert, Tobey Wheelock, Michelle Holt, Austin Bridges, Gary Bean, and Trisha Bean.

Abrogate

Accoutrements

Accreted

Adit

Adonai

Aegis

Allopathic

Ameliorate

Analog

Androgynous

Apportion

Appurtenance

Arcanum

Architrave

Asperity

Asseverate

Asymptotical

Athanor

Buckler

Cabalistic

Caparisoned

Cartouche

Cavil

Chaffer

Chary

Chirurgeon

Cipher

Condign

Conﬂuence

Contumely

Coulomb’s Law

Crux Ansata (Ankh)

Demesne

Density

Devachanic

Ding an sich

Dinoﬂagellate

Distortion

Ditties

Doughty

Duodenum

Ectoplasm

Eﬀulgent

Élan vital

Emblements

Entablature

Entropy

Esurient

Etherea

Etiolated

Euphonious

Geste

Gladsome

Histaminic

Honestation

Ileum

In esse

Inchoate

Ineﬀable

Ipsissimus

Irrefragably

Jejunum

Ka

Kundalini

Lacuna

Leitmotif

Limen

Limn

Logos (Logoi)

Lupoid

Lupus erythematosus

Matinal

Matrix

Mentation

Milieu

Mind/Body/Spirit Complex

Misprision

Moiety

Motile

Nephrotic syndrome

Netzach

Nexus

Nimiety

Nomer

Nonce

Noumenal

Oahspe

One Original Thought (Original Thought)

Oriﬂamme

Otic

Palliate

Papain

Perforce

Perspicacity

Piezoelectrical

Plebeian

Plenum (Nothingness)

Poignant

Polarize

Polymorphous

Potentiator

Prana

Proem

Propinquity

Propitious

Protean

Proximally

Psychotronic

Puissance

Redound

Ribband

Riﬄed

Riven

Salubrious

Seriatim

Sigil

Stannous

Stria

Stricture

Subtile

Supplicant

Supraluminal

Sutras

Synergic

Tau

Teleological

Tesseract

Thought-Form

Threnodies

Timbrel

Tocsin

Traduce

Ve Geburah

Ve Gedulah

Veil

Welter