Just making notes of words I don't know.
- brouse: paper mulberry (atree)
- apocryphal: questionable veracity
- chiaroscuro: monochrome, of different shades
- afflatus: inspiration
- aleatory: dependent on chance
- elision: omission of sounds to make it easier to pronounce
- flensed - to strip the blubber or the skin from
- ichor: is the golden ethereal fluid that is the Greek gods' blood, ambrosia or nectar.palimpset: writing material (as a parchment or tablet) used one or more times after earlier writing has been erased.
- perterite: past
- surbated: bruised/battered from overuse (as in hooves)