EDITOR@WORK: October 2026

Bacchanal

WORDS FOUND RECENTLY

Bacchanal: a wild and drunken celebration; a priest, worshipper, or follower of Bacchus. (adjective) another term for bacchanalian.

Brigand: a member of a gang that ambushes and robs people in forests and mountains.

Geodetic: relating to geodesy, especially as applied to land surveying.

Peculation: the act of illegally taking or using money, especially public money, that you are responsible for managing.

Polonium: a chemical element; it has symbol Po and atomic number 84. A rare and highly radioactive metal with no stable isotopes, polonium is a chalcogen and chemically similar to selenium and tellurium.

Psychotomimetic: 1. characterized by or producing symptoms similar to those of a psychosis. 2. a drug or other agent that has such effects; called also psychotogenic.

Sepulchral: relating to a tomb or interment; gloomy; dismal.

Spavined: affected with spavin, a condition that causes lameness in horses, or decrepit or worn out.

Terpsichorean: relating to dancing.

Vulpine: relating to a fox or foxes. crafty; cunning.

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• J-school: More eyes on your stories

• J-school: Go out and learn

• Rookie mistakes for magazine writers

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• Advice for be and would-be novelists

• Links to TG's stories online

• Favorite quotes

• What I do when I'm editing

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WORDS FOUND RECENTLY

Baroque: relating to or denoting a style of European architecture, music, and art of the 17th and 18th centuries that followed Mannerism and is characterized by ornate detail; also, highly ornate and extravagant in style.

Defenestration: the action of throwing someone out of a window.

Ecdysiast: a striptease performer.

Joli coeur: translated from French as sweetheart, honey, or darling.

Phrenology: the detailed study of the shape and size of the cranium as a supposed indication of character and mental abilities.

Pinafore: a collarless sleeveless dress worn over a blouse or jumper.

Proscription: the action of forbidding something; banning; condemnation or denunciation of something.

Risibility: the ability or disposition to laugh, or a humorous awareness of the ridiculous and absurd.

Steganography: putting information within another message or physical object, in such a manner that the presence of the concealed information would not be evident to an unsuspecting person's examination.

Vituperation: bitter and abusive language.

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