obsolescent

• Passing out of use, as a word.
• Formed after one's father's name.
• Surly.
• Having to do with what is preliminary.

raillery

• Exultation.
• Good-humored satire.
• A logician.
• Ease.

valorous

• Common to all the world.
• Courageous.
• Plentiful.
• Identical in nature, make-up, or relation.

tacit

• That can not be blotted out, effaced, destroyed, or removed.
• Very offensive, particularly to the sense of smell.
• Agreeable.
• Understood.

octagon

• Liability to be broken or destroyed.
• A figure with eight sides and eight angles.
• That which passes the ordinary, proper, or required limit, measure, or experience.
• The act of placing side by side, together, or in contact.

divagation

• A man without principle.
• One who journeys on foot.
• One who makes a collection, as of objects of art, books, or the like.
• Digression.

ingenuity

• A person or thing of little or no account.
• The maker of a will.
• Discernment.
• Cleverness in contriving, combining, or originating.

abridgment

• A branch of the olive-tree, as an emblem of peace.
• A concretion formed in various parts of the body resembling a pebble in hardness.
• A condensed form as of a book or play.
• A city of the dead.

outrage

• The negative pole or electrode of a galvanic battery.
• A gross infringement of morality or decency.
• The general science of the universe.
• Quiet.

speculator

• The act of taking back, or taking again.
• One who makes an investment that involves a risk of loss, but also a chance of profit.
• A mirror, as of metal, for reflecting light, heat, or sound in a particular direction.
• An outline or contour.