Lodestar

Lodestar (LOHD-stahr) is....

• Something that serves as a guide or on which the attention is fixed.
• A star that shows the way.
• Polaris

The word lodestar comes from the Old English lode which meant "way, course".

Aumildar

Aumildar (aw-mil-DAHR) is a manager or an agent; a collector of revenue.

Aumildar comes from the Hindi word, amaldar, a combination of the Persian word amal meaning "work"  and the suffix -dar meaning "agent".

So from now on, I'd rather call anybody's boss Mr./Mrs. Aumildar. Sounds like a surname, indeed, aumildar?

Crasis

Crasis (KREY-sis) 

• is a a composition; constitution; make-up.
• a type of contraction in which two vowels or diphthongs merge  into one vowel or diphthong - making one word out of two.

It comes from the Greek word krasis meaning "mixture, blend".

Fob

Fob is 

• (n) a short chain, usually with a medallion or similar ornament, worn hanging from a pocket.
• (n) a small pocket just below the waistline in trousers for a watch, keys, change, etc.
• (v) to cheat someone by substituting something spurious or inferior.
• (v) to put (someone) off by deception or trickery.

I just saw a clip in a movie showing fob (3rd definition). One man was standing right outside a girl's door who is holding a camera so to get rid of him she tricked him by saying he's standing in a right position for a nice photograph so she told him to go back and back a little more then she shut and locked her door. Nice one, huh! Well, she can't keep him away forever, can she? One day she has to confront whatever this man is up to with her. The movie, by the way, is Flight (2012) starring Denzel Washington. Haven't seen it yet.

Battology

Battology refers to the wearisome repetition of words in speaking or writing.

Battlogy comes from the Greek word battologia meaning "speaking stammeringly" from battos meaning "stammerer" and logia meaning "one who speaks (in a certain manner)" which entered English in 1500s.

I believe that a great writer knows how to use words so well that any readers would not even find any word repetition in his/her articles. 

Lagan

Lagan (LAG-uhn) refers to anything sunk in the sea, but attached to a buoy or the like so that it may be recovered.

Lagan is not as well known as its contextual brethren, flotsam and jetsam. It comes from the Old Nurse which means "a net laid in the sea".

Hotchpot

Hotchpot (HOCH-pot) means the bringing of shares or properties in order to divide them equally.

So when you are in a meeting with your family lawyer after a family member has died then it could mean a hotchpot. Good luck!