UNIQUE WORDS game to increase our vocabulary - alphabetical order

Nictate - blink.

the lid of her left eye began to nictate

Picayune 

adjective 1 of  little value or account; small; trifling. a picayune amount ·

noun  2.  petty, carping, or prejudiced. noun I did not want to seem picayune by criticizing, 

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Swanky: very expensive and fashionable, in a way that is intended to attract people's attention and admiration;

behaving too confidently.

Versant - a region of land sloping in one general direction

Xenophile: a person who likes foreigners or things foreign 

Zicornia: zirconium dioxide, a white solid used in ceramic glazes and refractory coatings, and as a synthetic substitute for diamonds in jewelry