Books finished: "The Lonely Men" "White Jacket"

Yesterday I finished two more books, "The Lonely Men" by L'Amour part of the Sacket series. Also "White Jacket" by Herman Melville. Some vocabulary I picked up in the last couple of chapters is as follows:
quaffings: over-indulgences
curmudgeons: misers, avaricious
sumptuary: relating to expences
quidnuncs: busy bodies
punctilious: ceremonious or very exacting
cabals: intrigues