- adage
- adamantine
- anathema
- something or someone that one vehemently dislikes
- hurly-burly, uproar, tumult, noisy activity
- anemoia
- nostalgia for a time you've never known
- asinine
- extremely, utterly foolish
- askance
- with an attitude or look of suspicion or disapproval
- auspicious
- characterized by success; prosperous
- propitious, providencial, felicitous
- conducive to success; favourable
- giving or being a sign of future success
- avuncular
- kind and friendly towards a younger or less experienced person
- bric-à-brac
- a selection of items of modest value, often sold in street markets and charity shops
- any collection containing a variety of miscellaneous items
- knick knacks, hodgepodge, oddments
- small ornaments and other miscellaneous display items of little value
- cafuné
- running your fingers through your lover's hair
- contingent
- occurring or existing only if (certain circumstances) are the case; dependent on
- chance, accidental, fortuitous, unforeseeable
- dependent, conditional
- subject to chance
- correctamundo
- dearth
- a scarcity or lack of something, eg food
- discombobulate
- ennui
- ephemera
- erudite
- facetious
- lacking serious intent; concerned with something that's amusing or nonessential
- fervour
- intense and passionate feeling
- ardour, zeal, vehemence, zest
- foible
- a weakness or eccentricity in someone's character
- fugacity
- the quality of being fleeting or evanescent
- glut
- an excessively abundant supply of something
- hobbledehoy
- hoi polloi
- the masses; the common people
- hootenanny
- an informal gathering with folk music
- idiosyncratic
- imbroglio
- indubitably
- intransigence
- refusal to change one's views or to agree about something
- irrevocable
- kairosclerosis
- the moment you realize that you’re currently happy
- kenopsia
- the eeriness of places left behind
- loquacious
- maelstrom
- a situation or state of confused movement or violent turmoil
- bedlam, pandemonium, disarray, welter
- metanoia
- the journey of changing one's mind, heart, self, or way of life
- miasma
- an unpleasant or unhealthy smell or vapour
- an oppressive or unpleasant atmosphere which surrounds or emanates from something
- moot point
- irrelevant for present; issue that is open for debate with no satisfactory answer
- moribund
- at the point of death, dying
- in terminal decline; lacking vitality or vigor
- naught
- nemophilist
- a haunter of the woods; one who loves the forest and its beauty and solitude
- niche
- nonplussed
- obsequious
- obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree
- servile, ingratiating, unctuous, sycophantic, fawning, toadying, oily, oleaginous, bootlicking
- obviate
- make unnecessary; prevent, avoid
- onerous
- involving heavy obligations; involving a great deal of effort, trouble or difficulty
- paradigm
- model, pattern for something that may be copied
- paraphernalia
- piecemeal
- characterized by unsystematic partial measures taken over a period of time
- in an unsystematic way, through partial measures taken over a period of time
- plethora
- portmanteau
- quagmire
- quixotic
- extremely idealistic; unrealistic and impractical
- starry-eyed, utopian, unwordly
- ragamuffin
- a person, typically a child, in ragged, dirty clothes
- urchin, mudlark, guttersnipe, tatterdemalion, gamin, waif
- recalcitrant
- unwilling to obey authority/to cooperate; difficult to deal with
- scruples
- a feeling of doubt or hesitation with regard to the morality or propriety of a course of action
- sedulous
- (of a person or action) showing dedication and diligence
- sinecure
- a position requiring little or no work but giving the holder status or financial benefit
- soft option, money for old rope, money for jam, doddle, walk in the park, cinch, gravy train, bludge
- sonder
- the realization that everyone has a story
- sophrosyne
- a healthy state of mind, characterized by self-control, moderation, and a deep awareness of one's true self, resulting in true happiness
- spendthrift
- a person who spends money in an extravagant, irresponsible way
- superfluous
- swimmingly
- tsundoku
- letting books pile up unread on shelves or floors or nightstands; buying books and not reading them
- whippersnapper
- a young and inexperienced person considered to be presumptuous or overconfident
- woe betide
- used humorously to warn someone that they will be in trouble if they do a specific thing
- yonder
- zeugma
- a) figure in speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses..
- ex: john and his license expired last week
- b) ..or to two others of which it semantically suits only one
- ex: with weeping eyes and hearts
- zwodder
- a drowsy, stupid state of mind or body
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