A $100 List of $10 Words

$10 words are words hardly ever used by anyone. Every so often, someone will insert one of them into his writing, usually for effect. Herein is presented a $100 list of 10 $10 words, compiled by yours truly.

eclaircissement
-explanation

troublous
-troubling

tergiversation
-the act of being evasive or ambiguous

tenebrous
-dark and gloomy

soporific
-having the ability to induce sleep

phantasmagoria (adjective - phantasmagoric)
-fantastic sequences of images

recumbent
-reclining

postprandial
-after a meal

deipnosophist
-one skilled in table talk

extirpate
-to destroy