- melancholy → a feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause
- solstice → where the sun appears to reach either its highest or lowest point in the sky for the year
- opulence → great wealth or luxuriousness
- eloquence → fluent or persuasive speaking or writing
- noir → a genre of film characterized by cynicism, fatalism, and moral ambiguity
- gaiety → the state or quality of being light-hearted or cheerful
- opium → addictive drug prepared from the juice of the opium poppy
- sonnet → a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes
- piccalilli → british interpretation of south asian pickles
- asunder → into separate parts; in or into pieces
- jejune → french word meaning naive, simplistic, and superficial
- covet → yearn to possess
- divination → the practice of seeking knowledge of the future or the unknown by supernatural means
- frangipani → a tropical american tree or shrub with clusters of fragrant white, pink, or yellow flowers
- periwinkle → a purple-blue colour like that of a periwinkle flower
- novella → a short novel or long short story
- abundance → a very large quantity of something
- avant-garde → new and experimental ideas and methods in art, music, or literature
- effluence → a substance that flows out from something
- cardamom → the aromatic seeds of a plant of the ginger family, used as a spice and also medicinally
- camembert → a rich, soft, creamy cheese, originally made near camembert in normandy
- swell → excellently; very well
- sundries → various items not important enough to be mentioned individually
- equinox → when day and night are of equal length
- autumnal → of, characteristic of, or occurring in autumn
- harpsichord → a musical instrument similar to a piano
- elixir → a magical or medicinal potion
- ravenous → extremely hungry
- glaciate → to cover with ice
- darkling → growing dark or characterized by darkness
- cicada → a large homopterous insect with long transparent wings, found chiefly in warm countries
- sunbow → an arch resembling a rainbow made by the sun shining through vapor or mist
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