WWW List 26

• petroglyph

  rock carving
• metamorphosis

  change of shape
• rectilinear

  right-angled
• tortuous

  twisting
• sanctimonious

  affectedly holy
• rectify

  correct
• vociferous

  loudly-voiced
• pathogen

  disease-causer
• isosceles

  having two equal sides
• cryptic

  having hidden meaning
• pathological

  diseased
• dichotomy

  two-part division
• corpulent

  full-bodied
• sine qua non

  essential element
• plutocracy

  government of the wealthy
• inherent

  built-in
• perihelion

  orbital point nearest the sun
• histology

  study of living tissues
• epiphany

  revelation
• cardiovascular

  of the heart and vessels
• intracranial

  within the skull
• melancholy

  dark sadness
• retrograde

  backward
• emollient

  softener
• delineate

  to outline