UNIQUE WORDS game to increase our vocabulary - alphabetical order

Xenophobe

a person who fears or hates foreigners, people from different cultures, or strangers.

Zeitgeist – The general mood of a period of history based on the prevailing beliefs at the time. 

During the Joseon era, the current zeitgeist was all for multiple wives.

Bruxism: The medical term for grinding your teeth while asleep.

Drama - 1. a play for theater, radio, or television 2. an exciting, emotional, or unexpected series of events or set of circumstances

Fingerboard: a strip of wood on the neck of a stringed musical instrument against which the strings are pressed in playing.

Hellacious (slang) - very great, bad, or overwhelming.

"there was this hellacious hailstorm"    

Jumboree:  a noisy celebration;

Lambaste - criticize (someone or something) harshly

"they lambasted the report as a gross distortion of the truth"