#. a lot of these are collected from all over the place. i just enjoy* pretty words and i can’t help myself but create a list of words i want to use. i have a bad memory

in a way, trying to gather up a word database to use in my writing!

• swashbuckling
• lovely
• ephemeral
• divine
• enchanting
• yearn
• ethereal
• serendipity
• endearing
• drift
• autumnal
• dazzling
• darling
• catharsis
• groovy
• waltz
• float
• oscillate
• swath
• sorrel
• unceremonious (there’s just something so snarky about this word bc of the way it’s usually used, i love it)
• thimble
• sacrosanct
• solipsism
• paucity
• platitude
• pocketbook
• cacoethes
• bosom
• suture
• outré
• couture
• telenovela
• serpentine
• leonine
• menagerie
• belvedere
• somewither
• bough
• anathema
• polymath
• ephemera
• buzzword
• tachypsychia
• dravidian
• verdure
• folly
• splendor
• sheen
• beguiling
• postmortem
• arabesque
• xeric
• brioche
• legendry
• elegy
• eulogize (can u guess)
• whimsy
• perennial
• natal
• naval
• exodus
• enmity
• arbitrarily
• sardonic
• gossamer
• revels
• niceties
• balladeer
• seafaring
• nautical
• maritime
• thalassic
• sublime
• idyllic
• exaltation
• absurd
• escapades
• baubles
• oneiric
• gallivanting
• eyrie
• leviathan
• marmalade
• minutiae
• harlot
• courtesan (don’t ask...)
• shirk
• accolade
• earthenware
• silken
• ataraxia
• lacquer
• garish
• knotweed
• caftan
• rivulet
• beneficence
• embalmed
• gospel
• hitherto
• heretofore
• prosaic
• medulla
• clumsy
• guile
• gulden
• guilder
• ditzy
• drowsy
• bayard
• farce
• besotted
• caustic
• pippins
• gingerbread
• ale
• saltpetre
• nomenclature
• draconian
• draconic
• liquid-eyed
• languorous
• chamberlain
• motes
• sunspot
• molten
• lattice
• kenning
• sea-gold
• agrarian
• intermittent
• etched
• neologism
• ecclesiastical
• prosody
• ephelides
• brigades
• arid
• sooth
• mausy (mauzy)
• bayou
• fremd
• axial
• paren
• atoll
• prana
• icterine
• predy
• glume
• floret
• sedge
• plume
• blume
• austere
• patina
• hable
• shtick
• idiosynchronicity
• idiosyncrasy
• flagitious
• concatenation
• voile
• miasma
• zenith (specific but. iykyk)
• sorority
• assemblage
• brewery
• burgeoning
• cupola
• excursion
• frugal
• jettison
• smorgasbord
• middleman
• posterity
• purveyor
• wharf
• bodega
• herringbone
• planetarium
• maiolica
• cormorant
• abscess
• laden
• otolith
• lithe
• gaunt
• axiom
• maudlin
• macabre
• blasé
• mezzanine
• wherewithal
• susurration
• discombobulating
• abridged
• tantamount
• cavalier
• candytuft
• benign
• diabolical
• battalion
• corollary
• confutation
• mildew
• alkaline
• pareve (parve)
• salve
• meridian
• bereft
• rosin
• terpene
• roux
• streusel
• aloft
• updraft
• paramount
• nonpareil
• litmus
• mottled
• sycamore
• recumbent
• morose
• periscope
• brusque
• pantomime
• mollified
• circlet
• diadem
• corolla
• coronet
• pelerine
• citadel
• prophylaxis
• eudaemonia
• doggerel
• hectare
• aleatory
• filament
• sea-glint
• puerile
• veranda
• lassitude
• untrammeled
• tumult
• torpor
• aquiline
• blight
• promiscuity
• pernicious
• febrile
• oblique
• convulsive
• interfibred
• catafalque
• firmament
• luminous
• vapour
• cascades
• moat-born
• sordid
• phosphorescence
• embowered
• crescendo
• insidious
• white-garbed
• immolation
• acquiescence
• pedantic
• cynosure
• lodestar
• lodestone
• saturnine
• armistice
• tinsel
• clinquant
• derelict
• patchouli
• bergamot
• myrrh
• sangria
• elderflower
• alight
• quandary
• quiescent
• capillitium
• addendum
• diablerie
• sconce
• strident
• solaria/solarium
• faience
• delftware
• cloisonné
• parian (marble)
• pareidolia
• qualia
• conté
• carrel
• alfalfa
• desultory
• melisma(tic)
• serrated
• dawdle
• margarine
• drupelet
• paragon
• cavalcade
• retinue
• cortège
• clerisy
• brocade
• prolixity
• loquacious
• alderman
• athwart
• moonshine
• elflock
• knave
• trenchant
• asterism
• osier
• schism
• sepulcher
• byword
• coppice
• triumvirate
• cavalcade
• oriole
• aureole
• raunchy (lol also don’t ask)
• taffeta
• impedimenta
• asafoetida
• talcum
• bovine
• dewberry
• passementerie
• clerestory
• tracery
• marina
• titillating
• salacious (i... can explain)
• lummox (lmao)
• astern
• alavert
• roseate
• dehisce
• malty
• florid
• memorandum
• ligature
• epistle
• stanchion
• strumpet (..from a vocab quiz)
• fugacious
• fractious
• querulous
• extemporaneous
• ossifies
• azimuth
• loess
• anathema
• gloaming
• ermine
• mimosa
• meringue
• edifice
• colonnade
• despot / despotic
• argyle (sweater, pullover)
• sycophantic
• obsequious
• inchoate
• concrescence