Words of the Week

A few spells I overheard in recent wanderings through the hinterlands of the written world: sepultured: buried. (Alternate spelling of sepulcher.) brio: vigor, vivacity, verve. (Thanks, MW, for an alliterative definition.) tath: manure, or a field enriched by it. condign: deserving or appropriate. rhyton: a horn-and-animal-shaped drinking vessel/funnel from antiquity. parlous: perilous. psaltery:…