GRE word list

agemate \EYJ-meyt\, noun

A person of about the same age as another.

She tolerates the family, especially an agemate named Isabelle, although they kid her about getting letters from a mysterious swain every day.

-- Faye Moskowitz, Her face in the Mirror

She had no agemate in that house, no one she could think of as an ally.

-- Julie Orringer, The Invisible Bridge

Agemate entered English in the late 1500s when the word mate meant "guest" in Old English.

altiloquent \awl-TIL-uh-kwuhnt\, noun

High-flown or pretentious language.

He remembered that the politeness seemed too elaborate, too florid, altiloquent to the extent of insincerity.

-- Holman Day, All-Wool Morrison

The meaning of the music was made further explicit by explanations in his own, altiloquent (but purposefully 

avoiding the technical) Wagnerian prose, wrapped solicitously around the Goethe passages.

-- Alessandra Comini, The Changing Image of Beethoven

Altiloquent stems from the Latin roots atli meaning "high" and loquentem meaning "speaking."