So patient a doctor to doctor a patient so
You can cage a swallow, can’t you, but you can’t swallow a cage
Bores are people that say that people are bores

A pseudodrome is basically a palindrome with words instead of letters. I suspect there might be a different word for it because a google search only reveals a few pages on pseduodromes mostly derived from one source.

au·toch·tho·nous
ADJECTIVE:
1. Originating where found; indigenous.

My view is that this is an arduous word barely worth using in conversation or writing. It’s probably good to know what it means when you see it.

é·lan (-lä, -län)
n.
1. Enthusiastic vigor and liveliness.
2. Distinctive style or flair.

quibble: an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections

Threnody - a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person (synonyms include dirge, coronach, lament, and elegy)

Raconteur (rkn-tûr) n.
One who tells stories and anecdotes with skill and wit.

camarilla: a group of secret and often scheming advisers.

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a·brade /əˈbreɪd/
–verb (used with object), verb (used without object), a·brad·ed, a·brad·ing.
1. to wear off or down by scraping or rubbing.
2. to scrape off.

Orthagonized: to meet up with someone for the express purpose of worrying about something.

yes, I made that word up. or rather I coined the usage in a nonmathematical context. I hope it’s useful to the world. please use it on the web so it can be tracked.

In philosophy, quiddity is essential identity or “whatness,” i.e., something’s “what it is.” The term derives from the Latin word “quidditas,” which was used by the medieval Scholastics to refer to a concept of substance they encountered while translating the works of Aristotle.

It describes properties a particular substance (e.g. a person) shares with others of its kind. The question “what (quid) is it?” asks for a general description by way of commonailty. Quiddity is often contrasted with the haecceity or “thisness” of an item, which, in turn, describes the particular properties of an object or substance (e.g. a particular person).

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hoary [hawr-ee, hohr-ee]
–adjective, hoar·i·er, hoar·i·est.
1. gray or white with age: an old dog with a hoary muzzle.
2. ancient or venerable: hoary myths.
3. tedious from familiarity; stale: Please don’t tell that hoary joke at dinner again tonight.