Saki - A South American monkey.
Timorous - showing or suffering from nervousness, fear, or a lack of confidence
"a timorous voice"
Vardo - gypsy caravan
Ablaction - weaning of a child from its mother's milk
breviate a brief compendium; a lawyer's brief
Chirology - study of the hands.
Eldritch - weird and sinister or ghostly."an eldritch screech"
Floccinaucinihilipilification - setting at little or no value.
Hurdy Gurdy - a musical instrument, like a violin. PLayed not with a bow but a rosined rim of a wooden wheel turned by a handle.
