Highfalutin

Pompous or pretentious: “highfalutin reasons for denying direct federal assistance to the unemployed”

Parabulia

Abnormality of volition or will, as when one impulse is checked and replaced by another.

Simulacrum

(1) An image or representation.
(2) An unreal or vague semblance.

Spoonerism

The transposition of usually initial sounds in a pair of words.

Some examples:
-- The Lord is a shoving leopard ["loving shepherd"].
-- It is kisstomary to cuss ["customary to kiss"] the bride.
-- Is the bean dizzy ["dean busy"]?
-- Let me sew you to your sheet ["show you to your seat"].

Osculate

(1) To kiss.
(2) Mathematics. To have three or more points coincident with.
(3) To come together; contact.

Complicit

Associated with or participating in a questionable act or a crime; having complicity: newspapers complicit with the propaganda arm of a dictatorship.

Miscegenation

(1) The interbreeding of different races or of persons of different racial backgrounds.
(2) Cohabitation, sexual relations, or marriage involving persons of different races.
(3) A mixture or hybridization: “There was musical miscegenation at a time when segregation was the common rule”

Chiaroscuro

(1) The technique of using light and shade in pictorial representation.
(2) The arrangement of light and dark elements in a pictorial work of art.
(3a) A woodcut technique in which several blocks are used to print different shades of a color.
(3b) A woodcut print made by this technique.

ad hominem

Appealing to personal considerations rather than to logic or reason: Debaters should avoid ad hominem arguments that question their opponents' motives.

Stultifying

(1) To render useless or ineffectual; cripple.
(2) To cause to appear stupid, inconsistent, or ridiculous.
(3) Law. To allege or prove insane and so not legally responsible.

Atavism

(1) The reappearance of a characteristic in an organism after several generations of absence, usually caused by the chance recombination of genes.
(2) An individual or a part that exhibits atavism. Also called throwback.
(3) The return of a trait or recurrence of previous behavior after a period of absence.

Seriatim

One after another; in a series.

Appurtenance

(1) Something added to another, more important thing; an appendage. See Synonyms at appendage.
(2) Equipment, such as clothing, tools, or instruments, used for a specific purpose or task; gear.
(3) Law. A right, privilege, or property that is considered incident to the principal property for purposes such as passage of title, conveyance, or inheritance.

Molder

To crumble to dust; disintegrate.

Bilious

(1) Of, relating to, or containing bile; biliary.
(2a) Characterized by an excess secretion of bile.
(2b) Relating to, characterized by, or experiencing gastric distress caused by a disorder of the liver or gallbladder.
(2c) Appearing as if affected by such a disorder; sickly.
(3) Resembling bile, especially in color: a bilious green.
(4) Having a peevish disposition; ill-humored.