1. Cryosurgery – “surgery in which usually diseased or abnormal tissue (as of a tumor or wart) is destroyed or removed by freezing (as by liquid nitrogen)”
  2. Jabberwocky – “meaningless speech or writing” (invented by Lewis Carroll!)
  3. Schuss – “to ski directly down a slope at high speed”
  4. Pontificate – “to speak or express opinions in a pompous or dogmatic way”
  5. Cloister – “a monastic establishment”
  6. Shirr – “to bake (eggs removed from the shell) until set”
  7. Auger – “any of various tools or devices having a helical shaft or member that are used for boring holes (as in wood, soil, or ice) or moving loose material (as snow)”
  8. Persnickety – “fussy about small details”, “having the characteristics of a snob”
  9. Clink – jail or a prison cell (slang)
  10. Corpulent – “having a large bulky body”, obese
  11. Pauchy – “having a potbelly»
  12. Creedal – same as “creed”

All definitions are from Merriam-Webster’s online. Please note that some of these words have more than one meaning – I just pick the more fun/interesting one.

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