- ambrosial (adj.) exceptionally pleasing to taste or smell; especially delicious or fragrant.
- ameliorate (v.) To make or become better, more bearable, or more satisfactory.
- bijou (adj.) Something small, delicate, and exquisitely wrought.
- curtail (v.) to cut short; to abridge or reduce.
- dauntless (adj.) fearless.
- enthrall (v.) to captivate or charm.
- evanescence (n.) a gradual disappearance.
- genial (adj.) friendly.
- haptic (v.) relating to the sense of touch; tactile.
- ineffable (adj.) incapable of being expressed in words.
- indignant (adj.) righteously angry.
- inveterate (adj.) established by a persistent habit.
- jactation (n.) a restless tossing of the body; boasting or bragging.
- macabre (adj.) gruesome and horrifying.
- mussitate (v.) to silently move the lips in simulation of audible speech.
- nympholepsy (n.) a frenzy of emotion, as for something unattainable; an ecstasy supposed by the ancients to be inspired by nymphs.
- occlude (v.) to shut in, out or off.
- ostensible (adj.) appearing to be; seeming.
- premorse (adj.) pertaining to the end of something irregularly shortened, as if bitten or broken off.
- proliferate (v.) to increase or spread at a rapid rate.
- prolific (adj.) producing abundantly; highly fruitful; producing in large quantities or with great frequency; extremely productive.
- retrograde (adj.) having a backward motion or direction; retiring or retreating.
- rhapsodize (v.) to talk with extravagant enthusiasm; to speak or write rhapsodies.
- ruction (n.) a disturbance, quarrel, or row.
- snuff (v.) to extinguish or suppress.
- squelch (v.) to suppress or silence, as with a crushing retort or argument.
- stringent (adj.) rigorously binding or exacting; strict; severe; compelling, constraining, or urgent.
- subtilize (v.) to make (the mind, senses, etc.) keen or discerning; to elevate or refine in character.
- surly (adj.) irritable.
- upbraid (v.) to scold.
- vespertine (adj.) of, pertaining to, or occurring in the evening.
- vestigial (adj.) pertaining to anything that is no longer present or in existence.
- visceral (adj.) characterized by or proceeding from instinct rather than intellect.
- volatile (adj.) able to fly or flying; tending to fluctuate regularly, fleeting, or transient.
- wend (v.) to proceed or go; to pursue or direct.
- zephyr (n.) a gentle, mild breeze.
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