Words I Don't Know: Royal Edition... What Number is This?

 And where is this farm?

sycophant (n.):  a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
insidious (adj.):  intended to entrap or beguile. 
bon vivant (n.):  a person who lives luxuriously and enjoys good food and drink.
amiable (adj.): having or showing pleasant, good-natured qualities.
invective (n.):  vehement or violent denunciation, censure, or reproach.
succinct (adj.):  expressed in few words; concise; terse.
puerperal (adj.):  of or pertaining to a woman in childbirth.
porphyria (n.):  a defect of blood pigment metabolism in which porphyrins are produced in excess, are present in the blood, and are found in the urine.
fichu (n.):  a woman's kerchief or shawl, generally triangular in shape, worn draped over the shoulders or around the neck with the ends drawn together on the breast.

Words I Don't Know: Royal Edition III

 So... I found another page of about two dozen words I don't know.  At this rate, I will never learn much of anything.  I have a plan to get organized, I swear.  Until then, educate yourselves.

obsequious (adj.): obedient; dutiful.
prescient (n.):  knowledge of things before they exist or happen; foreknowledge; foresight.
bordello (n.):  a brothel.
priapic (adj.):  characterized by or emphasizing a phallus.  
proclivities (n.):  natural or habitual inclination or tendency; propensity; predisposition.
 affable (adj.):  pleasantly easy to approach and to talk to; friendly; cordial; warmly polite.
 harridan (n.):  a scolding, vicious woman; hag; shrew.
intransigence (n., adj.):  refusing to agree or compromise; uncompromising; inflexible.
insular (adj.):  dwelling or situated on an island.
nominal (adj.):  being such in name only; so-called; putative.
disinter(red) (v.): to take out of the place of interment; exhume; unearth.
ascetic (n.):  a person who dedicates his or her life to a pursuit of contemplative ideals and practices extreme self-denial or self-mortification for religious reasons.
calumniated (v.):  to make false and malicious statements about; slander.
canonize (v.):  to consider or treat as sacrosanct or holy.
interdict (n.):  any prohibitory act or decree of a court or an administrative officer; a punishment by which the faithful, remaining in communion with the church, are forbidden certain sacraments and prohibited from participation in certain sacred acts; a general or special order of the Roman praetor forbidding or commanding an act, esp. in cases involving disputed possession.
sacramental (adj.):  powerfully binding.
iniquitous (adj.):  characterized by injustice or wickedness; wicked; sinful.
promulgate (v.):  to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
diocese (n.):  an ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop.
obdurate (adj.):  stubbornly resistant to moral influence; persistently impenitent.
effigy (n.):  a crude representation of someone disliked, used for purposes of ridicule.
coterie (n.):  a group of people who associate closely.

Words I Don't Know: Royal Edition II

innate (adj.):  existing in one from birth; inborn; native.
expedient (adj.): tending to promote some proposed or desired object; fit or suitable for the purpose; proper under the circumstances.
xenophobia (n.):  an unreasonable fear or hatred of foreigners or strangers or of that which is foreign or strange.
clemency (n.):  an act or deed showing mercy or leniency.
autocratic (adj.):  tyrannical; domineering. 
canaille (n.): riffraff; rabble.
coxcomb (n.):  a conceited, foolish dandy; pretentious fop.
martinet (n.): someone who stubbornly adheres to methods or rules.
licentious (adj.):  sexually unrestrained; lascivious; libertine; lewd.
extricate (v.):  to free or release from entanglement; disengage: to extricate someone from a dangerous situation.


Definitions from dictionary.com

Words I Don't Know: Royal Edition I

Good news:  I found my WIDK for A Treasury of Royal Scandals!  There were a lot of words I don't know because I just have a high school diploma and must be an idiot.  Anyway, less about my shortcomings, more about unusual words.

obstinacy (n.):  unyielding or stubborn adherence to one's purpose, opinion, etc.
capitulation (n.):  a list of the headings or main divisions of a subject; a summary or enumeration.
monomania (n.):  an inordinate or obsessive zeal for or interest in a single thing, idea, subject, or the like.
timorous (adj.):  Fearful.
mettle (n.): courage and fortitude.  
execrable (adj.):  utterly detestable.
effusion (n.):  an unrestrained expression.
arriviste (adj.):  a person who has recently acquired unaccustomed status, wealth, or success, especially by dubious means and without earning concomitant esteem.
sagacious (adj.): having or showing acute mental discernment and keen practical sense; shrewd.
precocious (adj.):  unusually advanced or mature in development, especially mental development.