My New Vocabulary

This is worth posting. I have something to show for my St. John’s education other than unanswered philosophical questions. Some of the items in my list were those that I already knew, but enjoyed so much that I deemed them worthy of accurate definition for my own future uses, or I wanted to use them but wasn’t sure enough of the pronunciation to dare.
The St. John’s College Vocabulary List, as of Week Two:

• bivouac: (n.) a military encampment, usu. without walls. (v.i.) to make a bivouac; to encamp.
• privation: (n.) {also deprivation} the lack of the usual comforts and necessities of life.
• abet: (tr.v.) to support with either physical aid or verbal approval, usu. in wrongdoing.
• countenance: (n.) appearance, esp. of the face; the face, visage; approval, encouragement, moral support. (tr.v.) to permit or tolerate; to approve, support, or encourage.
• supine: (adj.) lying on the back, face or front upward; inactive, passive, inert, esp. from indolence and indifference; having the palm of the hand upward. (n.) |Latin| a noun form derived from verbs, appearing only in the accusative and the dative-ablative; |English| the simple infinitive of a verb preceded by "to," or an analogous form in some other language.
• tawny: (adj.) a dark yellowish or dull yellowish-brown color. (n.) a shade of brown tinged with yellow; dull yellowish brown.
• suborn: (tr.v.) to induce [a person] to commit an unlawful or evil act; |Law| to induce [a person] to commit perjury or to procure perjured testimony.
• aegis, also egis: (n.) |Classical Mythology| the shield or breastplate of Zeus or Athena, bearing at its center the head of the Gorgon; protection, support; sponsorship, auspices.
• double entendre: (phrase) a double meaning; a word or expression used in a give context so that it can be understood in two ways, esp. when one meaning is risqué.
• ferrule: (n.) a ring or cap put around the end of a post, cane, spear, pole, etc. to prevent splitting; a short metal sleeve for strengthening a tool handle at the end holding the tool; a short ring for reinforcing or decreasing the interior diameter of the end of a tube; an adapter holding the end of a tube inserted into a hole in a plate in order to make a tight fit, used in boilers, condensers, etc.; a short plumbing fitting, covered at its outer end and caulked or fixed to a branch from a pipe so it can be removed to give access to the pipe's interior; |Angling| either of two fittings on the end of a section of a sectional fitting rod, one the plug, the other the socket; |Angling| one or more small rings spaced along the top of a casting rod to hold and guide the line. (tr.v.) to furnish with a ferrule.
• redouble: (tr.v.) to double, make twice as great; to repeat; to echo, reecho; |Card Games| to double the double of [an opponent] in bridge; to go back over. (v.i.) to be doubled, become twice as great; to be echoed, resound; |Card Games| to double the double of [an opponent] in bridge. (n.) |Card Games| the act of doubling one's opponent's double; an attack in a line other than that of the previous attack made after the failure of the opponent to follow his or her parry of the previous attack with a riposte.
• drover: (n.) a person who drives cattle or sheep to market; a dealer in cattle.
• nimbus: (n.) |Classical Mythology| a shining cloud sometimes surrounding a deity when on earth; a cloud, aura, atmosphere, etc. surrounding a person or thing; a halo; a type of dense clouds or cloud mass with ragged edges, that yields rain or snow; a rain cloud; |U.S. aerospace, capitalized| one of series of revolutionary, polar-orbiting meteorological and environmental research satellites last launched in 1978.
• riposte: (n.) a quick, sharp return in speech or action; a counterstroke; |Fencing| a quick thrust given after parrying a lunge. (v.i.) to make a riposte; to reply or retaliate.
• reification: (tr.v.) to regard or treat [an abstraction] as if it had concrete material existence.
• docent: (n.) |German| {also, privatdocent} a private teacher or lecturer recognized by the university but receiving no compensation from it, being remunerated by fees; a college or university lecturer; a person who is a knowledgeable guide, esp. one who conducts visitors through a museum and delivers a commentary on the exhibitions.
• suppliant: (n.) a person who supplicates, a supplicant; a petitioner. (adj.) asking humbly and earnestly, beseeching, supplicating; expressive of supplication, as words, actions, etc.
• cull: (tr.v.) to choose, select, pick; to gather the choice things or parts from [a whole]; to collect, gather, pluck. (n.) act of culling; something culled, esp. something picked out and put aside as inferior.
• copse: (n.) {also coppice} a thicket of small trees or bushes; a small wood.
• chrism: (n.) {also chrisom} a consecrated oil, usu. mixed with balsam and spices, used by certain churches in various rites, as in baptism, confirmation, and the like.
• infinitude: (n.) infinity; the state or quality of being infinite; an infinite or immeasurable extent, amount, or number.
• molder: {also moulder} (v.i.) to crumble to dust, disintegrate; to decay; to rot. (tr.v.) to cause to crumble, disintegrate, decay.
• roil: (tr.v.) to render [water, wine, etc.] turbid by stirring up sediment; to disturb or disquiet, irritate, vex. (v.i.) to be, move, or proceed turbulently.

And that’s what I learned at college. Do I get a degree now?