longueur long-GUR, noun:
A dull and tedious passage in a book, play, musical composition, or the like.

Longueur is from French (where it means “length”), ultimately deriving from Latin longus, “long,” which is also the source of English long.

spoliation spo-lee-AY-shun noun

1. The act of pillaging and plundering.
2. Seizure of neutral ships at sea in time of war.
3. The deliberate destruction or alteration of a document.

From Middle English, from Latin spoliation, past participle of spoliare, from spoil.