- acrid: unpleasantly bitter or pungent.
- apostate: a person who renounces a religious or political belief or principle.
- chiaroscuro: the treatment of light and shade in drawing and painting.
- congener: a thing or person of the same kind or category as another.
- connubial: relating to marriage or the relationship of husband and wife; conjugal.
- contretemps: a minor dispute or disagreement/an unexpected and unfortunate occurrence.
- coquettish: behaving in such a way as to suggest a playful sexual attraction; flirtatious.
- digress: leave the main subject temporarily in speech or writing.
- duenna: an older woman acting as a governess and companion in charge of girls, especially in a Spanish family; a chaperone.
- engorge: cause to swell with blood, water, or another fluid. [archaic: eat to excess.]
- eructation: a belch.
- fervent: having or displaying a passionate intensity.
- gregarious: (of a person) fond of company; sociable.
- impunity: exemption from punishment or freedom from the injurious consequences of an action.
- incarnadine: a bright crimson or pinkish-red colour.
- incondite: ill-constructed; unpolished.
- ingratiate: bring oneself into favour with someone by flattering or trying to please them.
- intonation: the rise and fall of the voice in speaking.
- lascivious: feeling or revealing an overt sexual interest or desire.
- mawkish: sentimental in an exaggerated or false way.
- mollify: appease the anger or anxiety of (someone).
- neuralgia: intense, typically intermittent pain along the course of a nerve, especially in the head or face.
- puratanic: having or displaying a very strict or censorious moral attitude towards self-indulgence or sex.
- reticent: not revealing one's thoughts or feelings readily.
- saporous: full of flavour or taste; flavourful.
- specious: superficially plausible, but actually wrong.
- titillation: a tingling feeling of excitement (as from teasing or tickling).
- venereal: relating to sexual desire or sexual intercourse.
- verbatim: in exactly the same words as were used originally.
- vie: compete eagerly with someone in order to do or achieve something.
- waylay: stop or interrupt (someone) and detain them in conversation or trouble them in some other way.
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