Combinatorics
Area of mathematics calculating the number of ways a particular event can occur
Curlicues
Decorative curls or twists in calligraphy
Dashikis
Brightly coloured tunics
Duplex
A building divided into two apartments
de rigueur
The height of fashion
Ebonics
A form of English sometimes used by black Americans
efficiency (an)
A one-room apartment
Fembot
A female robot
Hindenburg
German passenger airship
Itinerant
Travelling from place to place
Nomadic
Roaming from place to place
Palomino
A pale-coloured horse
Philanthropy
The desire to improve the welfare of others
RN
Registered Nurse (abbreviation)
Salient
Most important
“sketchy”
disreputable
Tithe
Traditional tax given to the Church
Trompe l’oeil
Artwork that creates a visual illusion
Utopia
An imagined place where everything is perfect
Vagaries
Unpredictable changes in situation or behaviour