Shawm (pg 84) -- A medieval double-reed musical instrument.
Ricercar (pg. 144) -- A musical composition, instrumental, from the mostly Baroque era.
Zargon (pg. 342) -- Apparantly the argot of Vagabonds, according to the Urban Dictionary.
Qwghimian (pg. 370) -- Language of the fictional islands of Qwghlm.
Sabotage (pg. 444) -- I KNOW what it means, I was interested in the derivation of the word, related to "sabot', a wooden shoe.
Hexen (pg. 458) -- A German verb, "to practice sorcery". So I guess in this case, used as a noun, it practitioners of sorcery.
Obnubilated (pg. 480) -- Unclear, dim, less visible.
Whilom (pg. 562) -- Former; sometime, late, formerly.
Scudding (pg. 613) -- To run or skim along swiftly and easily.
Enconiums (pg. 623) -- Probably a mispeling of "Encomium", glowing and warmly enthusiastic praise.
Conventicles (pg. 629) -- An assembly for religious worship; especially : a secret meeting for worship not sanctioned by law.
Exaltation (pg. 669) -- An excessively intensified sense of well-being, power, or importance.
Exultation (pg. 669) -- The state of being exultant filled with or expressing great joy or triumph.
Antelier (pg. 683) -- A studio or workshop.
Extirpated (pg. 742) -- To destroy completely; to pull up by the root'; to cut out by surgery.
Discursive (pg. 742) -- Marked by analytical reasoning is the best defintion I could figure out here.
Ninehammers (pg. 745) -- Only 14 hits on Google for this word. Maybe a mispelling or "affection" of "ninnyhammers", which means "ninny", and that would seem to fit.
Spanish Netherlands -- Pretty much what is sounds like, now I know where it is.
Ganymede (]g. 826) -- Not just a moon, he was a Trojan prince kidnapped by Zeus to be his lover. Hera hated him.
Lambent sky (pg. 863) -- Softly bright or radiant.
Parlous (pg. 877) -- Full of danger or risk.
Enfeoffed (pg. 891) -- To invest with a fief or fee
...Pepys core of librarian-mercenaries... (pg. 909)
J'onn J'onzz (pg. 66) I had to Wikilook™ to refresh my memory. He was in Detective Comics, one of my favorites, back in the day.
proscenium (pg. 93) -- The part of a modern stage in front of the curtain.
woods colt pg. 261) -- A child born out of wedlock.
"They're not dead until they're warm and dead!" (pg.525)
I ran across this sentiment before, but I forget where...."it was on that very day that the brutes showed up and threatened the librarians. Who told them nothing, incidentally."
..."You'd think these would learn their lesson--librarians know how to keep quiet."
"It helps to ask politely," said Mr. Benedict
degustationary (pg. 214) -- The action or an instance of tasting especially in a series of small portions
"Who are these Fedders, anyway?" Mother asks. "Where are their people from?" -- pg 324
Almost all good to great stories. Fairy Tales For Robots...well, I quite reading it some thirty pages in, it just didn't work for me.
“Mother Tongues”, S. Qiouyi Lu
“Olivia’s Table”, Alyssa Wong
“The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington”, P Djeli Clark
“Yard Dog”, Tade Thompson
“The Woman Who Destroyed Us”, SL Huang
“The Blue Fairy’s Manifesto”, Annalee Newitz
“The Starship and the Temple Cat”, Yoon Ha Lee
“A Brief and Fearful Star”, Carmen Maria Machado
*“Field Biology of the Wee Fairies”, Naomi Kritzer
“Intervention”, Kelly Robson (Infinity’s End)
“The Bookcase Expedition”, Jeffrey Ford
“A Witch’s Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies”, Alix E.
“The Staff in the Stone”, Garth Nix
“Okay, Glory”, Elizabeth Bear
“Widdam”, Vandana Singh
“Dreadful Young Ladies”, Kelly Barnhill
“The Only Harmless Great Thing”, Brooke Bolander
*“The Rose MacGregor Drinking and Admiration Society”, T.
“When We Were Starless”, Simone Heller
“If at First You Don’t Succeed, Try, Try Again”, Zen Cho
“Blessings”, Naomi Novik
“Meat and Salt and Sparks”, Rich Larson
“Nine Last Days on Planet Earth”, Daryl Gregory
“Golgotha “, Dave Hutchinson
“Flint and Mirror”, John Crowley
“An Agent of Utopia”, Andy Duncan
“You Pretend Like You Never Met Me, and I’ll Pretend Like I Never Met You”, Maria Dahvana Headley
“Quality Time”, Ken Liu
“The Storyteller’s Replacement”, N K Jemisin
“Firelight”, Ursula K Le Guin