| reticent | uncommunicative in speech; restrained in expression. |
| sangfroid | Composure in the face of difficulty or danger. From the French "cold blood" |
| savoir-faire | The ability to say or do the right or graceful thing. |
| recondite | dealing with difficult subject matter; esoteric; obscure. |
| febrile | feverish |
| liminality | a state of being between things, neither here nor there. |
| sachlich | (German) objective, matter-of-fact. Mundane(?) |
| oblique | neither parallel nor perpendicular; indirect; misleading. |
| trenchant | forceful, efective |
| dietrologia | the "science" of what is behind public events. |
| Symbolic Order | The social world of linguistic communication, intersubjective relations, knowledge of ideological conventions, and the acceptance of the law. More here |
| soi-disant | self styled |
| de trop | (French) too much, excessive. |
| pulchritude | Great physical beauty (especially of a woman) |
| bête noire | One that is particularly disliked or that is to be avoided |
| distaff | characteristic of or peculiar to women |
| lothario | a selfish successful womanizer |
| emetic | vomit inducing |
| Flâneur | A detached pedestrian observer of a metropolis. But best to see the rest of this Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fl%C3%A2neur |
| soignee | polished and well-groomed; showing sophisticated elegance |
| genau | (German) exactly, precisely. |
| manqué | having failed to achieve ambition; falling short of hopes or expectations. |
| pandiculate | yawn |
| laowai | (Mandarin Chinese) foreigner |
| postlapsarian | relating to the time after the fall of man (biblical) |
| oneiric | of, pertaining to or suggestive of dreams; dreamy |
| legerdemain | sleight of hand |
| cabron | (Spanish) literally goat but really an insult. Козёл. |