Here are some cool words and where I've encountered them! (atom feed)- rhodomontade
e.g. "...we always know what to expect and always get what we look for, a medley of blatherskite and rhodomontade" (Benjamin Russell) - psychopomp
e.g. "It's like encountering a psychopomp." (The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe) - sylph ("Sylph Fossil" by Iglooghost)
- limpid
e.g. "Her face was oval and perfect, with limpid eyes..." (The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe) - cabochon
e.g. "a bracelet formed like a kraken...its eyes were cabochon emeralds." (The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe) - malinger
e.g. "...and then there was no mass rebellion, only individual malingering." (The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe) - aver
e.g. "Certain mystes aver that the real world has been constructed by the human mind..." (The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe) - clarion
e.g. "...just as our Commonwealth reconstitutes itself each morning in the shrill tones of its own clarions." (The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe) - saccade
e.g. "...her eyes flickered with those darting saccades..." (The Freeze-Frame Revolution by Peter Watts) - actinic
e.g. "Yatima moved slowly through the actinic blaze..." (Diaspora by Greg Egan) - soporific
e.g. "...aquamarine triangles did an endless soporific dance..." (Gun, with Occasional Music by Jonathan Lethem) - desultory
e.g. "A few desultory shots rained against the building..." (Chasm City by Alistair Reynolds) - amanuensis
e.g. "...like a bloody amanuensis hanging off my every word..." (Chasm City by Alistair Reynolds) - phantasmagoric
e.g. "...a three-quarters moon appears and illuminates the phantasmagoric landscape." (The Terror by Dan Simmons) - antediluvian
e.g. "He listened to the antediluvian night sounds rising from the swamps..." (Hyperion by Dan Simmons) - blatherskite
e.g. "...their blatherskiting about how they are for the small man, the little man, is enough to make anyone throw up." (John Crosbie) - hadopelagic ("Hadopelagic Pressure" by DM DOKURO)