William Peter Blatty

William Peter Blatty is a caucasian, Roman Catholic, American author and filmmaker born on January 7, 1928.  And would you believe he's still alive and kicking!  He is most known for his novel and his part in making the movie The Exorcist.  He is married and had six children (three boys and three girls). He got his education at Georgetown University.  He has written many books.  A couple of other notable novels are Legion (1983) and I, Billy Shakespeare (1969).  You can find out more about Blatty here.  You can also learn neat trivia and Blatty's role in the production of the movie here.  Blatty and his books can also be found on Goodreads.com

Here is a list of words that didn't make the cut.  They didn't make it because I could gather what they meant from context, I just liked the word, or there was a pretty good chance I would come across these again in other books.  There are 49 of them after the jump.

(Note:  I erased two repeats).

1	admonish
2	adulation
3	ambled
4	antic
5	ardor
6	austere
7	bemused
8	Benediction
9	beseeching
10	clairvoyance
11	clonus
12	convalescence
13	cursorily
14	deftly
15	derelict
16	diffident
17	diminutive
19	eagily
20	effused
21	emissary
22	encumbrance
23	fatuous
24	fiity
25	genially
26	improvident
27	incipient
28	inscrutable
29	insurrection
30	irascible
31	lassitude
32	lithe
33	pertly
34	pious
35	piquant
36	precipitous
38	precocity
39	prescience
40	pugnacity
41	raconteur
42	rueful
43	seeress
44	strident
45	surmise
46	torpor
47	tractable
48	tremulous
49	unbidden
50	vise
51	wily

Next up:  selected words with definitions and usage examples.  What does circumlocution mean?  Well, you're about to find out!

"I have never read horror, nor do I consider The Exorcist to be such, but rather as a suspenseful supernatural detective story, or paranormal police procedural. --William Peter Blatty