- agomphious
- amaranthine
- ambrosia
- apotropaic - intended to ward off evil
- arabesque
- arranges
- aspirated
- brae = hillside
- cafuné - tenderly running your fingers through someone’s hair.
- chelonian = turtle-like
- debridement = wound-cleaning
- diaphoretic
- divest
- duende - the mysterious power that a work of art has to deeply move a person.
- dysania - difficulty getting out of bed in the morning.
- Éepater les bourgeois (French) - to deliberately shock people who have conventional values. “to amaze the middle class”.
- enamored
- épater les bourgeois - "to shock the middle class"
- esprit de I'escalier - "one only thinks on one's way downstairs of the smart retort one might have made in the drawing room."
- fallow
- fashious
- forlorn
- gimcrack = showy but cheap
- glabella - the space between eyebrows
- gnomon = sundial shaft
- gonflable
- gossamer
- gutted
- karoshi - death from being overworked
- inamorata = sweetheart
- inaniloquent - pertaining to idle talk
- infintesimal
- invidious
- jayus - someone who tells a joke so unfunny that you can't help but laugh
- kyphotic
- labyrinthine
- l'appel du vide - "the call of the void"
- limerance - an attempt at a scientific study into the nature of romantic love.
- lissome
- lurid
- macilent
- mamihlapinatapai - the wordless, yet meaningful look shared by two people who both desire to initiate something but are both reluctant to start.
- maniacal
- manse = a stately house
- mesonoxian - pertaining to midnight
- modernist
- nihilarian - a person who deals with things that lack importance
- ophidian {snakelike}
- orphic
- pandemic apparatus
- petrichor - the clean, pleasant smell that accompanies rain falling on dry ground.
- pinwheel
- pulveratricious - covered with dust
- pyrogenic = ingenious
- saffron
- saudade - the feeling of longing for someone or something loved, but also lost.
- saxatile
- scopperloit - rude or rough play
- scurrilous
- shellback = a worldly sailor
- shoals
- squalor
- swarthy = dusky
- taarradhin - a happy solution for everyone, an "I win, you win."
- tartle – the act of hesitating while introducing someone because you’ve forgotten their name.
- tingo (Pascuense, Easter Island) – “the act of taking objects one desires from the house of a friend by gradually borrowing all of them.”
- vaticination = prophecy
- virago (Old English) - a relentlessly scolding woman with a loud voice; a fearless, aggressive woman.
- wabi-sabi - “A way of living that focuses on finding beauty within the imperfections of life and accepting peacefully the natural cycle of growth and decay.”
- xebec = a 3-masted pirate ship
- Xerotic
- ya’aburnee - “you bury me”, used to express the hope that one will die before another person as it would be difficult to live without them.
- zeg - the day after tomorrow
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