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- au fait (French) (oh-fay):
- knowing a subject or procedure well
- mussitate (v.)
- to silently move the lips in simulation of audible speech.
- ✔ ostensible (adj.)
- appearing to be; seeming.
- Redolent:
- Fragrant.
- voluble:
- speaking a lot; talkative
- quick, easy or fluent;
- retrograde (adj.)
- having a backward motion or direction; retiring or retreating.
- quotidian (adj.):
- everyday; common
- staunch (adj.):
- strong and loyal in your opinions and attitudes
- tremulous:
- causing you to shake lightly/ slightly
- visceral (adj.)
- characterized by or proceeding from instinct rather than intellect.
- bereft (adj.):
- completely lacking something; having lost something
- sad and lonely because you have lost something
- rhapsodize (v.)
- to talk with extravagant enthusiasm; to speak or write rhapsodies.
- blandishments (noun):
- pleasant things you say/ do for people to persuade them to do something
- Demure:
- Shy and reserved.
- elucidate:
- to make clear; explain
- gumption (noun) (informal):
- the intelligence needed to know what to do in a particular situation
- courage and determination
- Ebullience:
- Bubbling enthusiasm.
- chagrined (verb):
- annoyed or displeased
- ineffable (adj.)
- incapable of being expressed in words.
- ameliorate (v.)
- To make or become better, more bearable, or more satisfactory.
- coquette:
- girl or woman who flirts
- ebullient (adj.):
- happy and excited
- Gambol:
- To skip or leap about joyfully.
- Petrichor:
- The smell of earth after rain.
- Lethologica:
- the inability to recall a precise word for something.
- candour (noun):
- the quality of saying what you think openly and honestly
- hobnob (verb):
- spend time together in a friendly way
- impudent:
- shameless or brazenly immodest
- milieu:
- the social environment that you live or work in
- placid (adj.):
- not getting angry or upset easily
- grandiose
- voraciously
- __intermittent __
- copiously
- lambasted
- hamartia
- reverential
- __ ascribe __
- mottled
- precipice
- Contrapasso
- pendulous
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