UNIQUE WORDS game to increase our vocabulary - alphabetical order

hypocritical - professing feelings or virtues one does not have

Jactitate - To jactitate is to toss around restlessly.

Longueur - a tedious passage in a book or other work

Nabob - a Muslim official or governor under the Mogul empire

Placebo - a substance that has no therapeutic effect, used as a control in testing new drugs.

                       a measure designed merely to calm or please someone.

Refulgence - a radiant or resplendent quality or state : brilliance

Tontine - 

an annuity shared by subscribers to a loan or common fund, the shares increasing as subscribers die until the last survivor enjoys the whole income

• a scheme for life insurance in which the beneficiaries are those who survive and maintain a policy to the end of a given period