albedo
  noun
 - The spongy white tissue on the inside of the rind of citrus
     fruit, commonly referred to as the pith.
 - The fraction of incident light or radiation reflected by a
     surface or body, commonly expressed as percentage.
 - Whiteness.

petrichor
  noun
 - The distinctive scent which accompanies the first rain after a
     long warm dry spell.
 - The yellow organic oil that yields this scent.

clandestine
  adjective
 - Kept or done in secret, often to conceal an illicit or improper
     purpose.
 - Not recognized as a regular member.
 - Conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods.

delaminate
  verb
 - To split into thin layers.
 - To cause something assembled by lamination to come apart (or
     take apart) into the layers that make it up.

verisimilitude
  noun
 - The quality of appearing to be true or real.
 - Resembling reality, realism.
 - A statement which merely appears to be true.

torpor
  noun
 - A state of mental or physical inactivity or insensibility.
 - Lethargy; apathy.
 - Loss of motion, or of the motion; a state of inactivity with
     partial or total insensibility; numbness.
 - Dullness; sluggishness; inactivity.
 - Inactivity resulting from lethargy and lack of vigor or energy.

ilk
  noun
 - Type or kind.
 - Kind; class; sort; type; -- sometimes used to indicate
     disapproval when applied to people.
 - A type, race or category; a group of entities that have common
     characteristics such that they may be grouped together.
  pronoun
 - The same. Used following a name to indicate that the one named
     resides in an area bearing the same name.
  adjective
 - Same; each; every.
 - Of the same kind.

paroxysm
  noun
 - A sudden outburst of emotion or action.
 - A sudden attack, recurrence, or intensification of a disease.
 - A spasm or fit; a convulsion.
 - Any sudden and violent emotion; spasmodic passion or action; a
     convulsion; a fit.
 - An explosive event during a volcanic eruption.

deracinate
  verb
 - To displace from one's native or accustomed environment.
 - To pluck up by the roots; to extirpate.
 - To liberate or be liberated from a culture or its norms.

conflagration
  noun
 - A very intense and uncontrolled or otherwise destructive fire.
 - A fire extending to many objects, or over a large space.
 - A large-scale conflict.