Algorithm
Set of rules for problem solving
Alloy
Mixture of two or more chemical elements
Archetype
Typical example of something
Banal
Commonplace
Bibliophile
A person who loves or collects books
Blitzkrieg
Intense military campaign intended to ensure a quick victory
Buoyant
Upbeat in personality
Calibrated
Adjusted to a standard scale
Carabiner
Link with a safety closure used by climbers
Derelict
Abandoned
Encrypted
Hidden within a code
Exorbitant
Excessive
Formaldehyde
Colorless pungent gas used as a preservative
Frantic
Wildly excited
Galleon
Large Spanish merchant ship
Gargoyle
Grotesque sculpted human or animal faces protruding from the guttering of a building
Genetically Modified
Having natural characteristics deliberately changed by manipulation of DNA
Glyphs
Carvings
Gnostics
Christian heretics of the 1st-3rd Centuries claiming mystical knowledge
Guffaw
Loud, boisterous laugh
Harmonious
Tuneful
Kabbalists
Followers of ancient Jewosh mysticism
Lignin
Complex organic polymer that makes plant stems rigid
Proscenium
The part of a stage in the theater that is in front of the curtain
Sans
Without
Spiel
Salesman's rehearsed patter
Subterranean
Below ground
Taxidermist
Person who stuffs animals for the purpose of art
Taxonomy
Science of classifying living and dead organisms
Uncanny
Supernatural, mysterious
Vegan
Person who avoids animal products
