Words I Looked Up Recently

I spent most of the day reading today. Here's another list of words I looked up recently:

limn: depict or describe in painting or words

sumptuary: relating to or denoting laws that limit private expenditure on food and personal item

cantrip: a mischievous or playful act; a trick

atropine: a poisonous compound found in deadly nightshade and related plants. It is used in medicine as a muscle relaxant, e.g., in dilating the pupil of the eye

venn diagram: a diagram representing mathematical or logical sets pictorially as circles or closed curves within an enclosing rectangle (the universal set), common elements of the sets being represented by the areas of overlap among the circles

meme: an element of a culture or system of behavior that may be considered to be passed from one individual to another by nongenetic means, esp. imitation

spurious: not being what it purports to be; false or fake; (of a line of reasoning) apparently but not actually valid

trope: a figurative or metaphorical use of a word or expression

extant: still in existence; surviving (especially of a document)

prodigious: remarkably or impressively great in extent, size, or degree

encomium: a speech or piece of writing that praises someone or something highly

provenance: the place of origin or earliest known history of something

bugbear: a cause of obsessive fear, irritation, or loathing

inculcate: instill (an attitude, idea, or habit) by persistent instruction

solecism: a breach of good manners; a piece of incorrect behavior; a grammatical mistake in speech or writing