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1. Abeyance Temporary inactivity, cessation, or suspension.

2. Acquiesce Submit or comply silently or without protest.


3. Ailurophile A cat-lover.
4. Ameliorate To make or become better, more bearable, or more satisfactory
5. Assemblage A gathering.
6. Atrocity Brutality
7. Azure A variation of blue that is often described as the color of the sky on a clear
summers day
8. Becoming Attractive.
9. Beleaguer To exhaust with attacks.
10. Brood To think alone.

11. Bucolic In a lovely rural setting.
12. Bungalow A small, cozy cottage.
13. Callipygous Having beautifully proportioned buttocks.
14. Callipygous Having shapely buttocks.
15. Cathartic Inducing catharsis; purgative.
16. Chatoyant Like a cats eye.
17. Comely Attractive.
18. Conflate To blend together.
19. Crestfallen Dejected; dispirited; discouraged
20. Cynosure A focal point of admiration.
21. Dalliance A brief love affair.
22. Demesne Dominion, territory.
23. Demure Shy and reserved.
24. Denouement The resolution of a mystery.
25. Desideratum Something wanted or needed.
26. Desuetude Disuse.
27. Desultory Slow, sluggish.
28. Diaphanous Filmy.
29. Dissemble Deceive.
30. Dulcet Sweet, sugary.
31. Ebullience Bubbling enthusiasm.
32. Effervescent Bubbly.
33. Efflorescence Flowering, blooming.
34. Effluence The act or an instance of flowing out.
35. Elision Dropping a sound or syllable in a word.
36. Elixir A good potion.
37. Eloquence Beauty and persuasion in speech.
38. Embrocation Rubbing on a lotion.
39. Emollient A softener.
40. Ephemeral Short-lived.
41. Epiphany A sudden revelation.
42. Erstwhile At one time, for a time.
43. Ethereal Gaseous, invisible but detectable.
44. Evanescent Vanishing quickly, lasting a very short time.
45. Evocative Suggestive.
46. Felicity Pleasantness.
47. Fetching Pretty.
48. Forbearance Withholding response to provocation.
49. Frisson A moment of intense excitement.
50. Fugacious Fleeting.
51. Furtive Shifty, sneaky.
52. Gambol To skip or leap about joyfully.
53. Glamour Beauty.
54. Gossamer The finest piece of thread, a spiders silk.
55. Halcyon Happy, sunny, care-free.
56. Harbinger Messenger with news of the future.
57. Imbrication Overlapping and forming a regular pattern.
58. Imbroglio An altercation or complicated situation.
59. Imbue To infuse, instill.
60. Incipient Beginning, in an early stage.
61. Ineffable Unutterable, inexpressible.
62. Ingnue A nave young woman.
63. Inglenook A cozy nook by the hearth.
64. Insouciance Blithe nonchalance.
65. Inure To become jaded.
66. Juxtaposition The state of being close together or side by side.
67. Labyrinthine Twisting and turning.
68. Lachrymose Given to tears or weeping.
69. Lagniappe A special kind of gift.
70. Lagoon A small gulf or inlet.
71. Languor Listlessness, inactivity.
72. Lassitude Weariness, listlessness.
73. Leisure Free time.
74. Lilt To move musically or lively.
75. Lissome Slender and graceful.
76. Lithe Slender and flexible.
77. Loquacious Talking or tending to talk much or freely.
78. Love Deep affection.
79. Malevolence Wishing evil or harm to another or others.
80. Mellifluous Sweet sounding.
81. Moiety One of two equal parts.
82. Mondegreen A slip of the ear.
83. Murmurs Murmuring.
84. Nemesis An unconquerable archenemy.
85. Offing the Sea between the horizon and the offshore.
86. Onomatopoeia A word that sounds like its meaning.
87. Opulent Lush, luxuriant.
88. Palimpsest A manuscript written over earlier ones.
89. Panacea A solution for all problems.
90. Panoply A complete set.
91. Pastiche An art work combining materials from various sources.
92. Penumbra A half-shadow.
93. Petrichor The smell of earth after rain.
94. Plethora A large quantity.
95. Propinquity Proximity; Nearness
96. Pyrrhic Successful with heavy losses.
97. Quintessential Most essential.
98. Quixotic Impulsive and often rashly unpredictable.
99. Ratatouille A spicy French stew.
100. Ravel To knit or unknit.
101. Redolent Fragrant.
102. Resplendence Splendid or dazzling in appearance.
103. Riparian By the bank of a stream.
104. Ripple A very small wave.
105. Saccharine Overly or sickishly sweet.
106. Scintilla A spark or very small thing.
107. Sempiternal Eternal.
108. Seraglio Rich, luxurious oriental palace or harem.
109. Serendipity Finding something nice while looking for something else.
110. Soliloquy The act of talking to oneself
111. Sovereign Having supreme rank, power, or authority.
112. Summery Light, delicate or warm and sunny.
113. Sumptuous Lush, luxurious.
114. Surreptitious Secretive, sneaky.
115. Susquehanna A river in Pennsylvania.
116. Susurrus Whispering, hissing.
117. Syllogism An extremely subtle, sophisticated, or deceptive argument.
118. Synecdoche Simultaneous understanding
119. Talisman A good luck charm.
120. Tintinnabulation Tinkling.
121. Umbrella Protection from sun or rain.
122. Untoward Unseemly, inappropriate.
123. Velvet A very pleasant, luxurious, desirable situation.
124. Verisimilitude A philosophical concept that distinguishes between the truth and
the falsity of assertions and hypotheses
125. Vespertine Relating to, or occurring in the evening.
126. Vestigial In trace amounts.
127. Wafture Waving.
128. Wherewithal The means.
129. Woebegone Sorrowful, downcast.
130. Zephyr A gentle breeze.

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