Brideshead Revisited

by Evelyn Waugh

verisimilitude.

spoliation

panegyric

indissolubly

Thermopylae.

lugubriously

aquatint.

badinage,

pullulating

Wykehamist,

propitious.

bibulous

boskage,

drugget,

sacerdotal

subfusc

I remember no syllable of them now, but the other, more ancient lore which I acquired that term will be with me in one shape or another to my last hour.

scrofulous.

breviary.

parochial

internecine

Jesuitical,”

campanile.

muniment-rooms

Jeroboam,

prurient,”

The newspapers reported it with painful prominence, one of them under the ironic headline: “Marquis’s son unused to wine.”

obsequiously

dipsomania.

gerontophilic

obdurate

garçonnière

peremptorily;

augustan

Quomodo sedet sola civitas”

quattrocento,

manumission

usurer

climacteric.

suffragan,

Hogarthian

jeroboam.