English... =) how baffling

A couple of interesting words in my prof's thesis on inter-textuality, anyone care to hazard a guess? I'm sure that you know some, and can guess a few... =) hee.. there were even more, but i got tired of typing them out. Answers tomorrow people!

• clime
• milieu
• palimpsest
• redolent
• epithet
• thetic
• corpus
• vacillate
• ephebe
• transmuted
• emanate