Third Policeman Vocab

As if trying to figure out what was going on in The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien wasn't hard enough he had to go and put in a bunch of words I didn't know. I looked them up but it didn't help me understand the book any better. Oh, well.

Coterie 1. a group of people who associate closely
2. an exclusive group; clique

Velocipede 1. a vehicle, usually having two or three wheels, that is propelled by the rider
2. an early kind of bicycle or tricycle

Sempiternal - everlasting; eternal

Lascar 1. an East Indian sailor
2. Anglo-Indian. an artilleryman

Excoriation 1. the act of excoriating
2. the state of being excoriated

so I looked up:
Excoriate 1. to denounce or berate severely; flay verbally
2. to strip off or remove the skin from

Acatalectic 1. (adj) not catalectic; complete
2. (noun) a verse having the complete number of syllables in the last foot

so I looked up:
Catalectic - lacking a syllable at the end of a line in metrical verse or ending in an incomplete foot

Banjax - ruin, smash, damage

Defalcation 1. misappropriation of money or funds held by an official, trustee, or other fiduciary
2. the sum misappropriated

Buncombe (variation of bunkum) - insincere speech making by a politician intended merely to please local constituents
( I think I would have gotten this one but the spelling threw me off.)

Vitiate - to impair the quality of; make faulty; spoil

Rhodomontade 1. a bragging speech
2. vain boasting or bluster

Peregrination 1. travel from one place to another, esp. on foot
2. a course of travel; journey

Desideratum - something wanted or needed

Mutandum - thing which is to be changed; something which must be altered