1. prolix - Tediously prolonged; tending to speak or write at excessive length.
Synonyms: voluble, wordy
Usage: She was engaged in editing a prolix manuscript, trying to cut the length by at least a third.

2. vitreous - Of, relating to, resembling, or having the nature of glass.
Synonyms: vitrified, glassy
Usage: The windows were covered with a clear, vitreous substance that kept out the wind.

3. mercurial - Quick and changeable in temperament.
Synonyms: quicksilver, erratic, fickle, volatile
Usage: Her mercurial nature made it difficult to gauge how she would react.

4. pinguid - Fat; oily.
Synonyms: oily
Usage: His car was splattered with some sort of pinguid substance, and washing it only
seemed to spread the mess.

5. reverberating - Characterized by reverberation.
Synonyms: resonating, resounding, reverberative, rolling, resonant
Usage: It was a sombre snowy afternoon, and the gas-lamps were lit in the big reverberating
station.

6. apogee - The point in its orbit where a satellite is at the greatest distance from the Earth;
the farthest or highest point.
Synonyms: culmination, apex
Usage: Their achievements stand as an apogee of centuries of development.

7. cerumen - A soft yellow wax secreted by glands in the ear canal.
Synonyms: earwax
Usage: A buildup of cerumen was irritating Billy's ear, so his mother gently cleaned the area
with a cotton swab.

8. attrition - A rubbing away or wearing down by friction.
Synonyms: corrasion, detrition, abrasion
Usage: General Washington was not so concerned with winning large battles as he was with
waging a steady war of attrition, gradually wearing down his foe.

9. windbreaker - A trademark used for a warm outer jacket having close-fitting, often elastic,
cuffs and waistband.
Synonyms: anorak, parka, windcheater
Usage: George's windbreaker was torn, and he shivered in the cold night air.

10. face-off - A hostile disagreement face-to-face.
Synonyms: confrontation, encounter, showdown
Usage: The relationship between the two officers deteriorated until they had a noisy face-off
at the chief's office.
11. lyceum - (noun) A school for students intermediate between elementary school and college;
usually grades 9 to 12.
Synonyms: secondary school, Gymnasium, lycee, middle school
Usage:"That lyceum has ruined him," she added, remembering the insistence with which the
chevalier had spoken of the evils of education in such schools.