words

• wanderlust
• chagrin
• gamut
• enigma
• penultimate
• adage
• pyromanical
• Bildungsroman
• archipelago
• contingency
• bereft
• charlatan
• felicity
• askance
• bemusement
• berth
• imperious
• berserk
• Luddite
• panacea
• palpable
• languid
• platitude
• extrapolate
• petulant
• paraphernalia
• superfluous
• unorthodox
• schadenfreude
• surmise
• infinitesimal
• omnidirectional
• solidarity
• pejorative
• paraphernalia
• cataclysm
• abnegate
• quagmire
• ubiquitous
• quintessential
• insipid
• gubernatorial
• umbrage
• integrity
• ebullient
• troika
• trifecta
• progeny
• zenith
• harrowing
• tepid
• subterfuge
• anthem
• dawdle
• rudimentary
• subterfuge
• visceral
• impertinent
• tenacity
• feckless
• vitriol
• maudlin
• casanova
• heathens
• anodyne
• jalousie
• macerate
• repudiate
• cadaver
• definitive
• bogart / bogarted
• cabaret
• exhume / exhumation
• equivocate
• neurosis
• obfuscate
• cathartic
• ionosphere
• purview
• tedium
• droll
• epiphyseal
• osteoid
• koan
• reconnoiter
• tactical
• inductive
• reductive
• deductive
• corroborate
• glib
• cuirass
• titillate
• temperance
• credence
• debacle
• dhow
• overture
• germane
• ambulatory
• philistine
• quillon
• cannelure
• insignia
• auspicious
• harbinger
• ergo
• rumspringa
• liege
• whinge // whinging
  • complain persistently and in a peevish or irritating way
• whine // whining
  • complain in a feeble or petulant way
  • give or make a long, high-pitched complaining cry or sound
• pestilence
• degenerate
• aberration
• surly
• supercilious
• patronizing
• overbearing
• clemency

and a few more

• per se
• pro bono
• de facto
• pro forma
• in tandem
• femme fatale
• quid pro quo
• non sequitur
• in medias res
• absit invidia
• kit and caboodle
• pièce de résistance
• omnia mea mecum porto
• modus operandi (M.O.)
• quod erat demonstrandum (Q.E.D.) "which is what had to be proved"
• Murphy's Law: If anything can go wrong, it will.
• The same hammer that shatters glass forges steel. (Russian proverb)

FOOD + DRINK

• kielbasa
• paella
• mamosa
• strawberry daiquri
• cosmopolitan
• cannelloni
• capraccio
• gnocchi