Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
Hermann Hesse

Ok, kids!  Here goes...
asseverate   concord   grouse   disarray   flotsam
consummate  glean  exigency  frenetic  incarcerate
ludicrous  incumbent  mordant  jocular  nettle
pusillanimous  recumbent  pecuniary  stratagem  prepossessing
acuity  delineate  depraved  emend  enervate
esoteric  fecund  fiat  figment  garner
hallowed  idiosyncrasy  ignominy  malediction  mundane
nuance  overweening  penchant  reputed  sophistry
sumptuous  ubiquitous  abject  agnostic  complicity
derelict  diatribe  effigy  equity  inane  
indictment  indubitable  intermittent  meretricious  moot
neophyte  perspicacity  plenary  prestigious  surveillance
sylvan  testy  travesty