10 interesting words found in The world around the Old Testament (Arnold/Strawn)

1. littoral - relating to or situated on the shore of the sea or a lake
2. floruit - a date or period during which a person or people was known to have been alive or active
3. alluvium - loose, unconsolidated soil, silt, sand, gravel or clay deposited by running water,
4. ramified - to ramify is to form branches
5. lodestar - a star used to guide a ship on its travels
6. sapiential - relating to wisdom
7. onomasticon - a collection or listing of words especially in a specialised field. Here, a collection or listing of proper names of persons or places usually with etymologies
8. rhyton - a roughly conical container from which fluids were drunk or poured in some ceremony such as libation or merely at table;. A cup, typically formed in the shape of either an animal's head or horn; in the latter case often terminating in the shape of an animal's body.
9. colophon - In manuscripts, a note, usually at the end, left by a scribe, giving information on his exemplar, where and when the copy was made, and sometimes, his own name. In printed material, a printer or publisher's identifying inscription or logo, at the front or end of a book and/or on the spine or dust jacket.
10. autochthonos - of an inhabitant of a place, indigenous rather than descended from migrants or colonists.