New words I come across

Big Red Son (1998), David Foster Wallace

1. pantomime
2. paucity (woeful paucity)
3. noms de guerre - French for names of war
4. Rolaids - I'm guessing this is some sort of OTC medication (it's an antacid)
5. cathedra - bishop's see (seat of authority)
6. ziggurat
7. tympanum ("The Harley-Davidson cafe, with its tympanum of huge protruding hawg)
8. hawg
9. synecdoche ("Vegas' synecdoche)
10. mal ("grand mal sync")
11. contusion
12. agoraphobia - fear of places that cause panic
13. vertiginous - fancy way of saying tall
14. cheval
15. chicane

1. dilettante - person who dabbles without commitment

1. reticient