rhadamanthine \rad-uh-MAN-thun\ - (often capitalized) rigorously strict or just
I believe I've encountered this word before and gotten its meaning correct by context, but I didn't recognize it as a stand-alone and was unfamiliar with its pronunciation and etymology.
gibe \JYBE\ - 1. to utter taunting words 2. to deride or tease with taunting words
I was familiar with this verb and its related noun, and understood them separately from jibe, but seem to have confused the two in the interim, perhaps because of not encountering this one much since learning the nautical term in sailing school.
gird \GERD\ - to sneer at : mock
I'm pretty sure I've never encountered this homograph of the more common verb, nor its related noun meaning a sneering remark.
eldritch \ELD-rich\ - weird, eerie <whose voice had risen to a kind of eldritch singsong — R. L. Stevenson>
Finally (for today) we have this one from a vocabulary quiz, which I was just certain meant something more along the lines of "honorable," which happened to be one of the options.
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