Idiopathic

id-i-o-path-ic* (d--pthk, d--)

adjective
1. Of unknown cause, pertaining to medical conditions.
Dr House fights idiopathic diseases by identifying cause.

Synonyms: idiopathetic,** random, unknown, unlucky.

* I fully admit that I like this word because it sounds like it should describe pathological idiocy.
** I promise this is also a real word! No, it doesn't mean idiotic beyond the point of sympathy.

Amanuensis

a-man-u-en-sis (-mny-nss)n. pl. a-man-u-en-ses (-sz)

noun
1. A person whose employment is to write what another dictates, or to copy what another has written.
Although some might call it pastiche, she had to wonder whether she was a writer, an amanuensis or just a hack artist.

Synonyms: auditor, bookkeeper, cashier, clerk, copyist, counter jumper, counterperson, employee, notary, office helper, operator, paper pusher, paper shuffler, pen pusher, pencil pusher, receptionist, recorder, registrar, salesperson, secretary, seller, shopperson, stenographer, teller, transcriber, typist, white collar, worker.

Illaudable

il-laud-ab-le (llôd-bl)

adjective
1. Not to be approved or commended, deserving of censure, blameworthy.
Whyfor art thou an evil illaudable smell-feast? There's always a strange comfort in the belief that people are responsible for their own problems. It minimizes one's own sense of responsibility for other people's actions and it's always shocking to find that they find yours to be an illaudable role in the course of their lives.
I always try to do the right thing, but I am finding that people can even blame you for that. Perhaps, there is no right thing. We just have to keep on being and doing and taking as much responsibility for ourselves as we possibly can.

Synonyms: base, carnal, contemptible, corrupt, dastardly, debauched, degrading, diabolical, disgraceful, dishonorable, drunken, embarrassing, flagrant, heinous, humiliating, ignominious, immodest, immoral, impure, indecent, infamous, intemperate, lewd, low, mean, mortifying, notorious, obscene, opprobrious, outrageous, profligate, reprehensible, reprobate, ribald, scandalous, shaming, shocking, sinful, unbecoming, unclean, unworthy, vile, villainous, vulgar, wicked.

* The video that I linked to the word evil actually made me feel better, if anyone was wondering. I don't really believe in evil. I think people generally try to do what they think is the best thing for them to do. Voltaire's song takes a sarcastic approach to the discussion that I love.

Axiomatic

ax-i-o-mat-ic (ks--mtk) also ax-i-o-mat-ic-al (--kl)

adjective
1. Derived from common knowledge.
So much about raising a child is axiomatic. I grew up in the era of no-swimming-after-eating; and raised my daughter in the era of Barbies-are-like-pornographic-sex-toys-that-will-give-your-daughter-an-eating-disorder.
2. Evident without proof or argument.
There are several things I believe are axiomatic: love, justice, humility, mercy, forgiveness, and hope. These qualities have no equal in the animal kingdom, they hint at more than biological processes, they are beyond simplistic facts or emotions, and the fact that they even exist seems mystical. - Husband of one, father of four.

Synonyms: absolute, accepted, aphoristic, apothegmatic, assumed, certain, fundamental, given, indubitable, manifest, obvious, presupposed, proverbial, self-evident, unquestioned.

* This word has always sounded a little like the automatic weapon of an axe murderer.

Mixen

mix-en (mksn)

noun
1. A compost heap or a dung pile.
We all have enough of our own mixen without mixing it up with other people's mixen.

Synonyms: compost heap, crap, dirt, dung pile, laystall, mess.

Glanceable

glance-ab-le (glnsbl)

adjective
1. Understandable at a glance or through glances, therefor requiring little attention.
His attractiveness was as glanceable as an ideogram and almost as deep.

Synonyms: user-friendly.

* This word belongs to the tech and ad industries, but, in our culture, is also sadly applicable to so many relationships.

Obsequious

obsequious (b-skw-s, b-)

adjective
1. Obedient or submissive to the will of another in an attentive and compliant, yielding or devoted manner.
Although I love her, the attitude of Jeannie, who gave her name to the TV show, kind of freaks me out. I want to be worshiped by someone whose worship comes as a surprise, from someone you wouldn't normally expect that kind of devotion. The adoration of those who are known for their obsequious romances does little for the ego at all.
2. Characterized by sucking up through obedience and/or flattery.
Obsequious attention always freaks me out because I know there is a hidden motive somewhere.

Synonyms: abject, beggarly, bootlicking, brownnosing, complacent, compliant, deferential, duteous, enslaved, fawning, flattering, ingratiating, kowtowing, menial, obeisant, prostrate, servile, slavish, sniveling, spineless, stipendiary, subject, submissive, subordinate, subserviant, syncophantic, toadying, unctuous.

* Too many love songs portray love as an obsequious emotion. I don't want to be worshiped; I want to be adored.