- Ailurophile A cat-lover.
- Assemblage A gathering.
- Becoming Attractive.
- Beleaguer To exhaust with attacks.
- Brood To think alone.
- Bucolic In a lovely rural setting.
- Bungalow A small, cozy cottage.
- Chatoyant Like a cat’s eye.
- Comely Attractive.
- Conflate To blend together.
- Cynosure A focal point of admiration.
- Dalliance A brief love affair.
- Demesne Dominion, territory.
- Demure Shy and reserved.
- Denouement The resolution of a mystery.
- Desuetude Disuse.
- Desultory Slow, sluggish.
- Diaphanous Filmy.
- Dissemble Deceive.
- Dulcet Sweet, sugary.
- Ebullience Bubbling enthusiasm.
- Effervescent Bubbly.
- Efflorescence Flowering, blooming.
- Elision Dropping a sound or syllable in a word.
- Elixir A good potion.
- Eloquence Beauty and persuasion in speech.
- Embrocation Rubbing on a lotion.
- Emollient A softener.
- Ephemeral Short-lived.
- Epiphany A sudden revelation.
- Erstwhile At one time, for a time.
- Ethereal Gaseous, invisible but detectable.
- Evanescent Vanishing quickly, lasting a very short time.
- Evocative Suggestive.
- Fetching Pretty.
- Felicity Pleasantness.
- Forbearance Withholding response to provocation.
- Fugacious Fleeting.
- Furtive Shifty, sneaky.
- Gambol To skip or leap about joyfully.
- Glamour Beauty.
- Gossamer The finest piece of thread, a spider’s silk.
- Halcyon Happy, sunny, care-free.
- Harbinger Messenger with news of the future.
- Imbrication Overlapping and forming a regular pattern.
- Imbroglio An altercation or complicated situation.
- Imbue To infuse, instill.
- Incipient Beginning, in an early stage.
- Ineffable Unutterable, inexpressible.
- Ingénue A naïve young woman.
- Inglenook A cozy nook by the hearth.
- Insouciance Blithe nonchalance.
- Inure To become jaded.
- Labyrinthine Twisting and turning.
- Lagniappe A special kind of gift.
- Lagoon A small gulf or inlet.
- Languor Listlessness, inactivity.
- Lassitude Weariness, listlessness.
- Leisure Free time.
- Lilt To move musically or lively.
- Lissome Slender and graceful.
- Lithe Slender and flexible.
- Love Deep affection.
- Mellifluous Sweet sounding.
- Moiety One of two equal parts.
- Mondegreen A slip of the ear.
- Murmurous Murmuring.
- Nemesis An unconquerable archenemy.
- Offing The sea between the horizon and the offshore.
- Onomatopoeia A word that sounds like its meaning.
- Opulent Lush, luxuriant.
- Palimpsest A manuscript written over earlier ones.
- Panacea A solution for all problems
- Panoply A complete set.
- Pastiche An art work combining materials from various sources.
- Penumbra A half-shadow.
- Petrichor The smell of earth after rain.
- Plethora A large quantity.
- Propinquity An inclination.
- Pyrrhic Successful with heavy losses.
- Quintessential Most essential.
- Ratatouille A spicy French stew.
- Ravel To knit or unknit.
- Redolent Fragrant.
- Riparian By the bank of a stream.
- Ripple A very small wave.
- Scintilla A spark or very small thing.
- Sempiternal Eternal.
- Seraglio Rich, luxurious oriental palace or harem.
- Serendipity Finding something nice while looking for something else.
- Summery Light, delicate or warm and sunny.
- Sumptuous Lush, luxurious.
- Surreptitious Secretive, sneaky.
- Susquehanna A river in Pennsylvania.
- Susurrous Whispering, hissing.
- Talisman A good luck charm.
- Tintinnabulation Tinkling.
- Umbrella Protection from sun or rain.
- Untoward Unseemly, inappropriate.
- Vestigial In trace amounts.
- Wafture Waving.
- Wherewithal The means.
- Woebegone Sorrowful, downcast.
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