UNIQUE WORDS game to increase our vocabulary - alphabetical order

ramify: branch out; divide into branches or subdivisions

Tendentious: having a strong bias, especially a controversial one

vicissitude
1a : the quality or state of being changeable;
b : natural change or mutation visible in nature or in human affairs
2a : a favorable or unfavorable event or situation that occurs by chance : a fluctuation of state or condition
“the vicissitudes of daily life”

Xenas - confident, strong woman

Zori - a flat thonged sandal usually made of straw, cloth, leather, or rubber

Blithe: showing a casual and cheerful indifference considered to be callous or improper.
"a blithe disregard for the rules of the road"

Deride - express contempt for; ridicule.

flabellation - the act of fanning