Infinite Vocab 101

There are a lot of amazing and interesting words in Infinite Jest. I wrote down a bunch of the ones I didn't know. Not every one, of course. I skipped all of the anatomical & pharmaceutical terms and there were times when I just didn't bother. IJ is big enough for that: for weeks you can read through thickets of pages and not write a word down, and then more weeks come and more huge chunks of pages and you find yourself jotting down every wild word you've never before seen and underlining sentences and whole chunks of prose that surge like tides and resonate and enthrall like 4th of July sparklers and meat on a grill.

enfilade – 13                   fitviavi - footnote 56, 996     

magisculed – 24                 ephebic - 170                  

anfractuous – 39                fricatives - 174

phylacteryish – 47              formication - 177

pargeted – 51                   sephenoid - 182

nystagmus – footnote 5A, 983    callosum - 182      

apocopes – 57                   laryngeally - 182

synclinal – 75                  treillage - 185

leptosomatic – 79               rostral - 185

calliopsis – 80                 lamina - 185

quincunx – 80                   piameter - 186

aleatory – 82                   sulci - 186

candidiatic – 87                chiasmae - 186

pedentive – 91                  oblongata - 186

pedalferrous – 93               meatus - 186

gibbous – 109                   triviumoid - 188

guilloche – 120                 papuled - 190

apercu – 121                    aminating - 195

osseously – 122                 gonfalonish - 208

eidetic – 127                   mucronate - 208

amines – 142                    tumbrel - 225

putative – 142                  wopsed-up - 234

erumpent – 155                  afflated - 235

parping – 159                   squunches - 236

rutilant – 159                  strettoing - 240

narcelle – 170                  acclivated – 241
apotropiac – 243                     ascapartic – footnote 110, 1016

lacuna – 245                    falcate - footnote 110, 1019

coccyges – 257                  bradyauxetic - 313

egregulous – 272                     ablated - 316

mokus – 273                     venulated - 362

Spont-Dissem – 274              cunctations - 368

nystagmic – 281                 arachnodactylic - 376

deafflatusized – 284            mucronate - 376

lordotic – footnote 98, 1003       chyme - 379

felo de se – 286                     aigrette - 380

strabismic – 289                     agnation - 382

ascapartic – 290                     adipose - 383

elisions – 290                  fulgurant - 387

apical – 290                    glabrous - 388

attar – 290                     carie - 410

auracopia – 298                 mafficking - 429

habiliments – 301               cuirass - 431

formicating – 304               dewimpled - 437

bilirubin – 304                 cognomen - 448

candent – 306                   nacreous - 455

quadrivial – 306                misprision - 465

wimples – 310                   ablative - 470

convolved – 310                 mysticetously - 476

xerophagy – footnote 110, 1006  propinquous – 479

anechoic – 503                  phocomelic – 901

coprolaliac – 621               achondroplastic - 901

mobiusizing – 622               entr’actes - 933

saltire – 632                   sinciput - 950

anaclitic – footnote 269, 1048       finial - 950

furcated - footnote 269, 1051        guilloche - 952

deuteragonist – 688                  kyphotic - 953

restenotic – 752                     ciquatoxic - 967

gonions - footnote 324, 1067         fuliginous - 971

colposcope - footnote 324, 1070      

lalating – 788

malcathected – 791

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actaeonizing – 793

nictitater - footnote 332, 1074

shunpike – 796

quoins – 797

diglobular – 801

inguinal – 803

strigil – 832

anhedonia – 839

skirling – 866

parotitic – 871

ebubblient – 893