"(1)
Oncethmus - The loud and hard cry of a donkey (2)
Suffarcinate - Pack tightly (3)
Weesquashing - Spearing of fish or eels by torchlight from canoes. (4)
Archigrapher - Principal or head secretary or clerk (5)
Lugent - Sobbing or grieving (6)
Philargyrist - Someone who loves money (7)
Homerkin - Liquid measure for beer (8) [
buffoonery] Not a rare word as such, but the collective noun for orangutans, which is weird enough to warrant a footnote (9)
Jobler - One who does small jobs (10)
Sturionic - Pertaining to the sturgeon. (11)
Eternitarian - One who believes in the eternity of the soul (12)
Quadrimular - Something lasting four years - unlike a tattoo! (13)
Modernicide - The killing of modern people. (14)
Welmish - Of a pale or sickly colour (15)
Aeipathy - A continued passion; an unyielding disease"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/nov/07/rescuing-obscure-words
http://savethewords.org/
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