epigone

\EP-uh-goan\, noun:
An inferior imitator, especially of some distinguished writer, artist, musician, or philosopher.

Just because my name is Mocrates doesn't mean I am an epigone of Socrates!

trammel

\TRAM-uhl\, noun:

1. A kind of net for catching birds, fish, etc.

I use this trammel for hunting birds, fish, and dating.

2. Something that impedes activity, progress, or freedom, as a net or shackle.

It's time to free yourself from the shackles of bagels, and the trammels of the croissant. Introducing: THE CROISSAGLE.

germane

\juhr-MAYN\, adjective:
Appropriate or fitting; relevant.

I suppose one could say that Michael "Piranha Food" Carson's death was germane...

deracinate

\dee-RAS-uh-nayt\, transitive verb:
1. To pluck up by the roots; to uproot.
2. To displace from one's native or accustomed environment.

You don't feel deracinated, do you, Shamoo? See? He doesn't even answer!

stertorous

\STUR-tuh-ruhs\, adjective:

Characterized by a heavy snoring or gasping sound; hoarsely breathing.

It wasn't Paul's bad teeth or misogyny that drove Susan away, but his stertorous nose-breathing.

Dom Delouise, the 20th Century's most Stertorous Comic Genius. JUST ASK HIS WIFE!

When Johnny strangled that emphysema patient to death--the one with a lot of phlegm--the immediately results were stertorous to say the least.

subfusc

\sub-FUHSK\, adjective:
Dark or dull in color; drab, dusky.

The subusc color under your eyes makes me wish I were still in mother's womb.

She dared not dare venture into the subfusc vicinity of Victor's pantaloons.

Museum Village's subfusc hues recall a bleaker but simpler era.