English vocabulary for Aspiring Fantasy Writers

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• Curlicue fancy curl twist flourish writing
• Incarnadine pinkish flesh-colored blood-red
• Lords vassals local bottom lordship hierarchy served superior
• Knight prestigious warriors middle ages important part battles
• Monks scriptoria worked rooms copy bible scripts distributed
• Eyre spelt latin iter terms denotes accorded king
• Chivalry knights term symbolize brevity loyalty enemies confronted
• Clergy benefit middle ages enjoyed privilege rule secular
• Cesspits latrines dug house pit supplement public proved
• Velleins peasants serfs bound working lords slaves categorized
• Love troubadours custodians art middle ages vocabulary composed
• Borough anglo-saxon word denotes town planned developed military
• Magna carta document stipulated relationship king lower level
• Opusculum minor work literature a
• Term devshirme derived ottoman turks describe levy imposed
• Term haram arabic forbidden taboo acts tangible things
• Members tithing group frank pledge oath males twelve
• Tenant escheat middle age vocabulary describe lord property
• Violated king's peace term denoted area king’s residence
• Estate fief term describe range acres include lord’s
• Associations guilds term describe middle ages merchants formed
• Young ghulam term medieval islamic society denote male
• Slave abd term common arabic meant combination allah
• Book carried hours common prayer ordinary medieval women
• Nuns monks abbey community lived monastery abbess female
• Amercement financial fine imposed king council committed petty
• Burdatio tax imposed people state local lords equivalent
• Land separate demesne part lord’s manor peasant work
• Amount landgable basic money paid piece land located
• Abattoir slaughterhouse massacre a
• Absinthe wormwood liquor bright-green color
• Acedia ennui state torpor listlessness spiritual apathy
• Acidulous acidic sour taste manner sarcastic
• Acolyte ranked clergy member assistant liturgical rites
• Adroit quick skillful adept action thought
• Adumbrate explain faintly opaquely outline describe
• Aeipathy continued passion unyielding disease
• Aeneous brassy type golden-green a
• Aeonian continuing forever eternal
• Aesthete person appreciates art beauty
• Aileron small moveable platforms back plane wings alter
• Alienate estrange unfriendly hostile to
• Aliment nourishes food supply sustenance
• Alleviate allay lessen pain negative occurrence consequence
• Alloquy speaking address to another
• Allure attraction temptation attract desirable
• Alluvium unconsolidated sediments carried water
• Amaranth deep-hued purple type flower metaphor immortality
• Light amber brown yellow
• Ambience atmosphere environment surrounding influence aura
• Ambrosia food gods overpoweringly delicious fragrant
• Amelus individual exhibiting amelia congenital absence limbs
• Amethyst deep purple deep-purple gemstone
• Amnesia partial total loss memory
• Anemone flowery marine creature a
• Anxiolytic preventing reducing anxiety antianxiety medication tranquilizer
• Aperitif alcoholic drink appetizer meal
• Aphelion point orbit earth furthest sun
• Aphesis omission sound verbiage beginning word phrase
• Apocope omission sound verbiage end word phrase
• Apophenia perception belief connectedness unrelated phenomena
• Apoplexy stroke impairment neuralgia cerebral hemorrhage
• Apostolicity contemporary apostles character being
• Apotheosis deification quintessence exaltation divine rank stature
• Apropos appropriate of
• Painting aquarelle transparent watercolors done
• Aquiline resembling eagle’s beak hooked
• Ascertain understand specific facts ferret information
• Ashlar squared block building stone dressed outward placement
• Pertaining astral aster stellar star-shaped stars
• Asylum refuge place restore sanity facilitate recovery
• Atelier artist’s studio place designated create perform art
• Athanasy quality deathless immortality of
• Athenaeum institution promotion literary scientific learning phrontistery
• Auburn moderate reddish-brown
• Aura distinctive pervasive quality character air atmosphere emanation
• Avarice extreme greed wealth material gain
• Avenue wide street thoroughfare roadway lined tress
• Azoth mythologized universal solvent panacea
• Light azuline blue similar to
• Azure sky-blue light blue or
• Baccalaureate bachelor’s degree valedictory speech
• Bull banderilla decorated dart shot neck fight
• Bayonet blade adapted fit muzzle-end rifle weapon close
• Bellicose inclined eager fight aggressively hostile belligerent pugnacious
• Berceuse lullaby song put sleep
• Bibliophile loves collects books collector
• Bivouac temporary military squad encampment
• Bright blaze flame fire steady light glare hot
• Blossom billowing period condition flowering growth
• Bloviate make pompous arrogant discourse
• Boeotian marked stupidity philistinism crudely obtuse loutish
• Bordereau detailed note memorandum account
• Bouleversement reversal fortunes overturning tumult
• Middle bourgeoisie class communist theory
• Arrogant braggadocio person braggart boastful behavior
• Brecciate form rock breccia made sharp fragments set
• Breeze gentle push wind of
• Brevity briefness swiftness evanescence
• Bricolage made put materials happen
• Brio joie de vivre vivacity alacrity gusto esprit
• Burnish polish shine polished surface
• Caballero skilled horseman gentleman cavalier
• Cabaret restaurant live entertainment a
• Cadence rhythmic flow sounds language lilt
• Cadenza musical literary improvisation or
• Caesious type bluish gray a
• Caliginous misty dim obscure dark gloomy tenebrous
• Calypso type rare orchid tribal fervid dance
• Backwards cancrizans movement crab walking music moving
• Candelabra pl branched candlestick candles
• Capricious impulsive whimsical unpredictable
• Caress touch stroke lightly loving endearing manner
• Cartesian relating philosophy descartes of
• Cathismata pl divisions greek psalter
• Cavil object criticize adversely trivial reasons flimsy objection
• Cedilla diacritic beneath letter designed alter pronunciation façade
• Celadon type pale green a
• Celeripedean quick-footed swift fast-running
• Celerity speed alacrity briskness
• Celesta ancient musical instrument
• Celestial heavenly higher plane empyreal pertaining space
• Cells cellular pertaining structure to
• Cenotaph unmarked grave an
• Centennial relating period years occurring
• Cerulean type watery blue a
• Cessation pause interruption ceasing ending
• Chalice cup consecrated wine goblet
• Chamois goatlike antelope type cloth cleaning
• Champagne type bubbling alcohol fruity taste
• Chandelier ceiling-mounted light fixture glass structure
• Cry chantpleure singing sing simultaneously
• Chartreuse type swampy green a
• Chatelaine mistress lady castle large household
• Chatoyant resembling cat’s eye like
• Quotidian daily mundane occurring day
• Chauffer designated paid driver formal occasions
• Cheilion corner mouth oral cavity
• Chevelure head hair tresses nebulous aura comet
• Chiaroscuro composition strong contrasts light dark
• Choreography art creating arranging dances ballets
• Cigány gypsy hungarian
• Cinnabar bright red glowing
• Cinquefoil five-leave plant limbs five-leaved five-pointed leaves
• Circuitous circular winding indirect roundabout
• Cislunar relating space earth moon moon’s orbit
• Cistern underground reservoir an
• Citadel bulwark fortress stronghold refuge
• Civility formal perfunctory politeness state civil
• Clandestine secretly secretively kept or
• Clear clarion medieval trumpet shrill tones loud burst
• Clavicle collarbone human the of
• Clavilux odd machine generates light rhythm music
• Mercy clemency act showing an
• Clerisy well-educated learned class intelligentsia cognoscenti
• Glittering clinquant gold tinsel showily ornate
• Clithridiate keyhole-shaped resembling keyhole a
• Cloister monastatic establishment convent living
• Collectanea selection pieces writing author
• Colliquate change solid liquid liquefy
• Colophon inscription end book identifying emblem
• Coloratura elaborate technical vocal music florid ornamentation
• Comestibles items suitable eaten edible sundries articles food
• Official communiqué announcement bulletin board dispatch report
• Conciliabule secret meeting conspirators of
• Conciliate win state hostility distrust appease
• Concinnity harmony arrangement fitness parts respect
• Concupiscence lasciviousness lewdness ardent lust
• Congelifraction splitting disintegration rocks result freezing water
• Constellation specific arrangement stars form image
• Recover convalesce recuperate injury to
• Small copse thicket trees shrubs coppice wood
• Coquette woman makes teasing sexual romantic overtures flirt
• Coracle small rounded boat made waterproof material stretched
• Mountain cordillera group ranges forming system great linear
• Coruscate sparkle reflect brightly shimmer
• Cosmology study physical universe considered mass phenomena spacetime
• Craquelure fine pattern dense cracking formed surface paintings
• Crystal mineral permutations gemstone-like with
• Cuneiform wedge-shaped sumerian language
• Curved curvilinear consisting bound lines represented
• Cyan type greenish-blue a of
• Cygnet baby swan young a
• Cynophilist dog-lover loves appreciates dogs
• Cynosure garners great attention calling brilliance interest
• Daedalian intelligent crafty deft practical pertaining daedalus
• Dalliance flirtation dawdling procrastination frivolous action
• Daphnean shy timid demure modest bashful
• Dawn daybreak light day onset idea enlightenment
• Decrescendo gradual lowering tempo music situation
• Deign condescend thought slightly beneath one’s dignity
• Delenda deleted that which needs
• Deliquesce dissolve transform liquid solid
• Delirium state mental disarray unstable consciousness intoxication fever
• Delphic brotherly oracular prophetic or
• Demarche action maneuver specific movement
• Demure shy modest reserved demeanor behavior sedate reserve
• Denouement final resolution clarification dramatic narrative plot
• State desuetude disuse uselessness of
• Diablerie dealing devil witchcraft sorcery consorting demons
• Diaphanous light delicate gossamer translucent
• Dilettante dabbles occupation hobby intent
• Dislodge remove force position dwelling previously occupied
• Dissimulate conceal disguise hide intent deceit
• Dulcet sweet-sounding mellisonant
• Dulciloquy speech characterized sounding soft sweet
• Dulcimer stringed instrument strings fretted fingerboard
• Dulcinea sweetheart lovely person loves cares
• Dyslexia disorder lexical figures perceived chaotic order
• Ebon black made ebony of
• Echelon tier level rank job formation soldiers
• Sound echo repetition produced reflection
• Echolalia involuntary repetition words phrases spoken
• Eclipsareon device illustrating demonstrating eclipses
• Effervesce bubble boil frothy excite
• Effluvium foul discharge emanation emission
• Effulgent marked brightly shining light coruscating shimmering
• Effusive gushing expressive moving cascading
• Eiderdown duck stuffing quilts pillows
• Élan esprit brio gusto ardor vivacity
• Elapse pass happen to or
• Elasticity quality state elastic tendency shape stretching
• State elation quality elated feeling great joy pride
• Elicit bring draw latent educe summon provoke reaction
• Elixir solution alcohol water substance believed maintain life
• Ellipsis omission word phrase complete syntactical construction
• Move eloign distance concealed to
• Eloquence well-stated speech flowing language articulated proper execution
• Elucidate explain clarify elaborate to
• Emanation emission issued source something
• Emissary agent mission represent advance interests
• Emission discharge emanation chemical release
• Emollient substance softens soothes skin lotion
• Empyreal related empyrean celestial to
• Emulsify pour liquid non-soluble creating visible density
• Halo enhalo affix wear encircle surround
• Ennui listlessness weariness discontent
• Epée fencing sword blade cutting edge
• Epergne table centerpiece object designated
• Ephemeral transient evanescent brief
• Epicurean hedonistic gastronomical pertaining good taste
• Epigone inferior imitator disciple second-rate replica counterfeit
• Epileptic pertaining epilepsy flickering rapidly seizing
• Epistle formal letter cachet a
• Epitaph inscription tombstone an on
• Epithelium type body tissue a
• Epitome perfect quality type a
• Equipoise equal distribution weight balance balanced
• Escamotage juggling hand trickery sleight legerdemain
• Escarole type green chicory of
• Escritoire writing desk designed studies
• Esculent edible safe eaten able
• Esper advanced mentality psychic abilities
• Esprit brio wit vivacity joie de vivre
• Essence intrinsic indispensable properties serve typify identify
• Esssse pl archaic plural ashes
• Estuary inlet arm sea open river connects
• Esurient hungry greedy hedonistic pursuit things
• Ethereal heavenly airy substance spectral insubstantial light
• Etiolate stunt growth deprive strength whiten blocking sunlight
• Etude piece music designed didactic purposes
• Eunoia normal mental health beautiful thinking
• Euphonious nice-sounding sounding pretty
• Euphoria feeling great happiness well-being felicity
• Evanescent transient ephemeral brief
• Evaporation act liquid dissipating drying due humidity exposure
• Eviscerate disembowel exenterate remove viscera
• Act exclusion excluding shutting preventing entrance
• Exuviate shed shell molt unsheathe
• Façade affected aura mannerisms beguile deceive
• Facility building made convenience ease moving aptitude
• Fainéant sluggard do-nothing ne’er-do-well idle ineffectual
• Falciform falcate curved convex sickle-shaped
• Famished extremely hungry ravenous starved
• Famulus sorcerer’s apprentice assistant or
• Felicity state happiness joy ecstasy
• Fissure long narrow opening crack cleft process splitting
• Fleur-de-lys stylized insignia lily of
• Formulaic special quality type average routine undistinguished
• Forte niche person excels in
• Foudroyant dazzling scintillating sudden overwhelming
• Frost hoarfrost degree state coldness covering minute ice
• Fuchsia bright pinkish-purple
• Fuliginous color soot dark dusky charcoal-colored
• Fumarole hole area volcanic activity gases hot smoke
• Fumulus thin cloud resembling veil forming level
• Fusillade salvo rapid discharge firearms
• Gale harsh gust wind strong current
• Gambol skip jump merrily to
• Gaucherie awkwardness inexperience embarrassments
• Girandole mirror attached candle holders
• Glacial slow staggering pertaining glaciers ice sheets
• Glisten shine reflection sparkling luster coruscate shimmer
• Gloom sadness melancholy depression
• Glyph sigil specific insignia letter language arcane mark
• Gracile gracefully slender thin graceful
• Grandeur splendor magnificence quality state grand
• Hacienda main building farm ranch
• Hallucinate affect affected visions imaginary perceptions
• Light hazel brown yellow or
• Heath plain tract wasteland uncultivated land
• Purple heliotrope type flower light
• Helix spiral spiral-shaped object string
• Hubris excessive pride overbearing arrogance
• Hue gradation variety color or
• Humiliate enervate embarrass specific actions events
• Ilium upper part bony femur hip joint
• Illusion erroneous mental representation false image made force
• Illustrate clarify explain examples comparisons
• Immaculate spotless free sin blemish impurity
• Immure enclose walls ensconce to
• Impedimenta pl things hinder growth movement
• Impetus drive compelling force motivation reason
• Imprimatur sign mark approval insignia
• Incalescent hotter growing ardent boiling
• Induce incense rage infuriate aromatic element designed relaxation
• Incipient initial stage beginning exist
• Incunabula pl book printed before
• Indolence laziness extreme ease comfort
• Ineffable indescribable impossible describe enchantingly amazing
• Corner inglenook nook open fireplace chimney
• Inoculate introduce idea view mind inculcate inject serum
• Intaglio engraving incised figure stone hard material
• Inundate deluge fill quickly capacity cover water drench
• Iris colored portion eye encircles pupil
• Iscariotic traitorous treacherous betrayal committed
• Isinglass thin sheet(s translucent mica
• Land isthmus narrow strip connecting larger masses
• Ivory pure white color material derived elephant tusks
• Jaunt short excursion pleasure stay
• Jejune naïve juvenile simplistic uninteresting superficial
• Kaleidoscope optical item utilizes mirrors create interior symmetrical
• Knell ring slowly solemnly funeral bell-ring
• Labyrinth maze puzzling complex circuitous plan
• Lacerate cut tear irregularly distress mangle
• Lacquer varnish dries evaporation that
• Lacuna omission empty space gap chronology
• Gift lagniappe extended patronage compensation valued customers
• Thin laminate beat compress plate sheet divide layers
• Languid characterized disinclination physical exertion
• Laodicean indifferent lukewarm politics religion
• Lapis lazuli gemstone intense blue
• Generous largesse giving gifts courteous charitable donation
• Lassitude weariness lack energy motivation
• Lathe machine shaping piece material rotating rapidly axis
• Lavadero laundry room place designated washing gold
• Type lavender light purple flower oft perfumed scent
• Layer single thickness material covering surface
• Lemniscate infinity symbol figure-eight the
• Lethe condition forgetfulness oblivion the
• Leveret baby rabbit young a
• Levitation act floating supernatural the
• Lexiphanes pretentious word user bombastic magniloquent person
• Libeccio southwest wind occurring italy
• Lilt cadence voice rhythm language sentences good vocal
• Limn delineate depictions suffuse things light
• Limpid unclouded clear lucid defined deep
• Lineaments pl distinguishing characteristic features immaterial
• Linoleum type floor covering a
• Lissom supple easily bent lithe flexible
• Listless lacking energy disinclined exert effort lethargic
• Litany large amount plethora long tedious address recital
• Literati intelligentsia educated class clerisy group litterateurs
• Lithe readily bent supple flexible marked effortless grace
• Lithosphere outermost shell planet crust uppermost mantle
• Litterateur literary-minded person devoted study writing literature
• Lixiviation act separating soluble insoluble substances water solvent
• Loquacious characterized talking freely excessively talkative
• Lorgnette pair eyeglasses opera glasses handle
• Lewd lubricious slippery oil lubricant offensively intending
• Lucent shining gleaming brilliantly
• Lullaby song tune devised lull sleep
• Luminal pertaining lumen measure light perceived human eye
• Luminary inspiration attained success chosen field
• Lunacy insanity moments clarity with
• Lunula white crescent base fingernail
• Luscious delicious sexy cloying alluring
• Lustrous noticeable vivid luster sheen
• Mixture macedoiné diced fruits vegetables medley
• Malaise bodily weakness nondescript illness vague feeling discomfort
• Malapropos place inappropriate inopportune manner
• Malleable moldable modified easily reshaped ease form
• Mannequin articulated human figure design
• Mantelletta sleeveless vestment worn cardinals
• Maquette scale model large item
• Maraschino cordial made fermented juice marasca cherry
• Marasmus type protein deficiency state emaciation
• Marble highly-polished building material irregularly colored
• Marginalia notes margin book in
• Marionette puppet bound strings controlled wooden bars
• Masquerade festive gathering characterized participants wearing masks
• Material secular worldly substance(s thing made composed
• Maudlin overly sentimental saccharine mawkish self-pitying
• Mauve type pinkish purple a
• Medallion jewelry object worn necklace
• Medley heterogeneous mixture typically complementing elements
• Melisma stretching syllable series notes
• Mellisonant wonderful-sounding pleasant-sounding
• Melody series pattern notes a
• Memorabilia pl things remarkable worthy remembrance record
• Menagerie collection animals cages enclosures diverse hodgepodge gallery
• Mephitic poisonous noxious lethally dangerous insidious toxic putrid
• Mercurial fickle erratic ingenious changeable eloquent
• Mere small lowly being nothing
• Meridian noon imaginary line extends north south poles
• Mestizo person mixed racial ancestry
• Métier forte niche person excels occupation profession
• Cry mewl whimper infant meow kitten weakly
• Mezzanine partial story main building lowest balcony theater
• Miasma atmosphere disease fine mist effluvium bacteria noxious
• Midst middle in the of
• Mien air bearing expressive attitude personality demeanor aura
• Thousand millennium years period one
• Mimosa type plant cocktail drink
• Mimsy flimsy miserable excels and
• Mirror surface reflect undiffused light form image object
• Mist mass fine droplets liquid
• Mast mizzenmast aft mainmast ship
• Mizzle fine rainfall drizzle mist
• Moiety equal parts half one
• Morceau small literary musical composition
• Moue pouting face grimace upset facial expression
• Mythopoeic pertaining making myths to
• Nacreous iridescent pearly mother-of-pearl nacre
• Naïveté inexperience quality naïve artlessness
• Nebulae pl collection astral gases
• Nemesis source harm ruin unconquerable foe enemy vengeful
• Neophyte novice tyro beginner a
• Nepenthe drug forgetfulness anti-depression remedy sorrow
• Nepheliad cloud nymph designated or
• Nephew son brother sister relation
• Nickelodeon theater charges nickel cents entry
• Nonchalant feeling appearing casually calm relaxed indifferent
• Novae pl collapsing dying stars
• Novella short prose tale characterized moral teaching satire
• Novice novitiate living place state neophyte
• Nucleus central part grouped gathered
• State nullibicity non-existence quality of
• Numina pl presiding divinities spirits place creative energies
• Nymph seductive lustful woman fairy
• Objet d’art object art valuable highly artistic piece
• Oblivion condition quality completely forgotten void forgetfulness
• Obsidian volcanic glass black shade
• Female odalisque servant harem in
• Oeillade amorous glance ogle an
• Oleander type flower a of
• Opacity opaqueness obscurity impenetrability
• Opalescent milky iridescent shimmering colors opal
• Light opaque impenetrable reflecting difficult explain understand
• Orchestra large group musicians variety instruments
• Oscillate swing move uninterrupted motion
• Otiose indolent lazy serving purpose futile leisure
• Oubliette dungeon opening top with
• Palatial pertaining palace grandiose magnificent
• Palaver conference discussion idle chat flattery cajolery involved
• Palisade fence pales stakes set firmly ground
• Palladian relating wisdom learning or
• Full panoply collection array set armor
• Panoramic unbroken view entire surrounding area inclusive presentation
• Pantomime communication gestures facial movements
• Paradigm defined archetype typical pattern
• Patina natural tarnish wear usage passage time verdigris
• Patois dialect usual literary uneducated provincial language
• Paucity scarcity lack presence fewness small number
• Peccadillo insignificant sin wrongdoing trifling fault
• Peccavi admission guilt confession of
• Partial penumbra shadow space illumination limits
• Filter percolate pass pores small holes
• Periphery line forms boundary limited circumference sight perimeter
• Phantasm apparently physical reality illusion
• Philander womanize entertain elicit casual wanton sex
• Philanthropy effort drive well-being humankind generosity
• Philtrum subtle curve beneath nose upper lip
• Phoenix mythical bird fire rises ashes cycle rebirth
• Plumage entire feathery covering portion bird feathers collectively
• Pluvial characterized relating rainfall or
• Poignant profoundly moving touching physically emotionally painful
• Ponceau strong red reddish orange
• Portfolio portable case carrying documents
• Prairillon small meadow tract grassland heath plain
• Precocious manifesting characterized unusually early development maturity
• Prismatic refractive light spectrum brilliantly colored
• Pristine primordial condition untouched belonging earliest period state
• Propinquity nearness place approximate location proximity vicinity
• Sound psithurisma whisper wind trees wind-rustled leaves
• Psittacism automatic speech thought meaning words spoken
• Puree rub strainer process electric blender
• Purlicue space thumb forefinger between
• Quaquaversal directed outward common center points omnidirectional
• Querencia area bull-ring bull makes stand
• Quintessence element perfect embodiment fifth
• Quisquose difficult deal something which
• Quiver shiver shake quaver tremble
• Radii pl line segments center circle sphere perimeter
• Recherché elegant refined tasteful sophisticated
• Recidivism act repeating punished chronic tendency repeat crimes
• Reciprocity quality state requiting mutual dependence
• Redivivus revived back life resurrected resuscitated
• Relinquish voluntarily cease claim surrender
• Renaissance rebirth revival renewal cultural intellectual thought
• Resonance quality resonant extension sound sympathetic vibration
• Revenant specter ghost returns long absence
• Idle reverie daydream thought desire surrendering imagination
• Risorgimento time renewal renaissance revival
• Roué rake rouge philanderer lothario
• Rupestrian composed rock sculpted of
• Salient prominent conspicuous important or
• Saline salty pertaining salt to
• Salubrious health-giving healthy healthful relating good health
• Salve remedial lotion substance soothe allays
• Sangfroid composure coolness shown danger imperturbability
• Sanguine healthy reddish color ruddy blood-red blood
• Bright sapphire blue valuable gemstone deep
• Sardonyx type stone onyx sandy bands
• Satellite celestial body orbits planet moon object designed
• Scarlet type bright-red color a
• Scintilla infinitesimal item mote tiny thing
• Sclera whites eyes the of
• Scoliosis abnormal lateral curvature spine affliction thereof
• Sentient aware characterized ability feel perceive conscious
• Sequacious pertaining sequence order to
• Sequester relegate small space withdraw seclusion
• Seraphim pl six-winged angels
• Serenade courtesy performance honor express love
• Serendipity occurrence progress events chance happy beneficial
• Sesquipedalian syllables long-winded words typified long
• Sestina poem six-line stanzas three-line envoy
• Sfumato definition form hasty outline mild gradation light
• Shrivel wither due lack moisture contract lose momentum
• Sibilant hissing making sound resembles
• Sibyl prophetess fortune-teller female prognosticator
• Sienna yellowish-brown type clay a
• Sierra ridge mountain of a
• Silence state quality soundlessness lack sound
• Tristiloquy speech characterized sadness gloominess
• Silver shimmering gray color type metal
• Simplicity state quality simple freedom complexity intricacy
• Sinecure easy occupation requires responsibility
• Siphon suck absorb appendage to
• Pertaining sisyphean involving endless labor sisyphus
• Sleep state slumber position rest physical mental living
• Slender long thin tall and
• Section slice thin slash remove small
• Slither glide slide reptile to
• Smolder burn accompanying flame undergo slow compressed combustion
• Sobriquet nickname moniker adopted name
• Soigné elegant sophisticated well-groomed
• Sojourn visit stopover jaunt brief
• Solace comfort consolation time sadness distress
• Solecism impropriety nonstandard grammatical construction violation etiquette
• Solemn dignified formal stern serious
• Soliloquy dramatic monologue intense speech exposition addressed
• Solipsism philosophical idea one’s mind exist
• Solstice times year sun furthest equator
• Sommelier waiter expertly trained alcoholic beverages wine steward
• Sonnet fourteen-line poem specific rhyme scheme
• Sorcerer practitioner sorcery wizard warlock magician
• Sotto voce soft-voiced emphasis quiet speech
• Souvenir keepsake memento sentimental something
• Spiral helix string successively concentric pattern
• Spool cylinder ridges spirals string
• Stasis equilibrium causing peaceful inactivity equal opposing forces
• Stiletto high-heel sharp point small dagger
• Stillicide water falling roof house gutter
• Sublime noble exalted majestic empyreal
• Succinct briefly stated laconic terse
• Succor aid assist time assistance
• Suicide act murdering oneself the
• Surreptitious stealthy secret hidden kept
• Sussurous pertaining whispering to
• Susurrus whisper resembles a something
• Swain young man suitor ephebe
• Swath width scythe-stroke strips radii made
• Swerve abruptly turn deviate straight
• Sweven dream vision premonition
• Swoon fainting spell collapse ecstasy
• Syllable unit spoken language consisting single uninterrupted sound
• Sylph graceful woman fairy air elemental
• Forest sylvan relating characteristic woods regions sprite
• Symbiosis mutual biological synergy dissimilar organisms
• Symphony extended orchestral movements
• Symposium conference discussion topic for
• Viceroy governor representative sovereign of
• Things tacenda mentioned passed silence
• Talisman item marked magic signs confer magical powers
• Teleology study philosophical concept telos
• Earth tellurian terrestrial inhabiting pertaining earthen
• Tenuous long thin slender flimsy great substance diluted
• Pattern tessellation tile sans gaps extraneous spaces specific
• Tête-à-tête private conversation people a
• Theophany religious epiphany appearance god person
• Thylacine extinct tasmanian tiger the
• Tintinnabulation ringing sounding bells sound
• Tiramisu type dessert made cake espresso
• Tolutiloquent speech characterized rapidity by
• Tourmaline multifarious gemstone grossly differing colors
• Traipse walk wander destination gad aimlessly blithely
• Tregetour juggler mummer conjurer
• Trillium type flower a of
• Trinity group consisting closely related members unity special
• Triste sad mournful dismal depressed
• Turquoise type blue-green color a
• Ubiquitous time omnipresent being or
• Ultramarine type intense bluish-purple a
• Umbrage offense affront shade beneath tree suspicion reason
• Umbrella apparatus personal rain repellant
• Vaccinate inoculate vaccine prepared medicine
• Vacillate waver actions decisions hesitate
• Vacivity emptiness absence space lack matter
• Vacuity emptiness absence lack matter space vacuum
• Vale world life mortal earthly
• Valiant possessing valor brave marked
• Vanilla ordinary conventional flavored flavor extracted bean
• Vaudeville bygone slapstick era specific comedic style(s
• Vavasor superior vassal beneath with
• Velleity flimsy desire perfunctory hope dream
• Vellum mammal skin prepared writing printing
• Velvet soft type material clothing
• Veneer thin surface layer superficial enhancement inferior material
• Venial pardonable easily excused pardoned trivial
• Ventriloquist puppeteer utilizing vocal techniques manipulations
• Verisimilitude appearance semblance truth reality fictional medium
• Vernal pertaining spring to
• Verve energy brio élan vigor joie de vivre
• Vestibule small entryway outer door interior building
• Vesuviate erupt explode fulminate to
• Vetanda taboo forbidden things topics
• Vicennial happening twenty years every
• Vicissitudes circumstances fortune of changes
• Food victuals eaten provisions cache pabulum comestibles nutrients
• Vignette sketch literary visual event description tableau
• Villain dramatic fictional character typically odds hero
• Vinyl type multi-use plastic resin
• Viola musical instrument similar qualities appearance violin
• Violet shade deep purple a
• Violin stringed instrument played bow
• Viridian type blue-green pigment a
• Vis-à-vis face opposite relation regard meeting people
• Visceral pertaining viscera relating deep emotions opposed intellect
• Vista view prospect perspective spectrum peripheral boundaries
• Visurient hungry visual stimuli pertaining desire evoked vision
• Vivacity brio esprit alacrity
• Vivify invigorate revive energize galvanize
• Alive vivisepulture act buried burying
• Vociferous loud stentorian vehement angrily impassioned
• Wan pallid sickly complexion of
• Warble trill croon purr chirrup
• Weather state atmosphere time place
• Whilom erstwhile formerly former
• Whimsy quaint fanciful idea whim capricious humor playful
• Whisper soft speech produced full voice uttered softly
• Cotton winceyette cloth made raised surface
• Winnow filter remove unnecessary undesirable parts
• Xenodochial friendly kind strangers foreigners
• Xenoglossy language learned spontaneously prior knowledge
• Xysti pl covered portico gymnasium
• Zenith point celestial sphere observer highest maximum
• Gentle zephyr slight burst wind breeze
• Zyzzyva type weevil a of
• Acciaccatura grace note embellishing written smaller size
• Acervuline aggregated heaped bundled collected localized
• Acoustic relating sound sense hearing science
• Passively acquiesce accept comply submit
• Aeolian pertaining related caused wind aeolus
• Aerial caused air existing living
• Aestival pertaining relating designating summer
• Aeviternal eternal endless never-ending
• Afflatus strong creative impulse result divine inspiration
• Ailurophile cat-lover loves appreciates cats
• Alabaster dense translucent white tinted fine-grained gypsum
• Allegretto music term moderately fast tempo
• Ambivalence simultaneous conflicted feelings thing person
• Ameliorate make improve enhance to
• Amphisbaena greek mythological two-headed snake head end
• Amphora ceramic two-handled vase narrow neck alcohol
• Amulet charm evil impurity piece jewelry
• Analemma sundial figure-8 indicating sun’s position
• Ancestry inception origin phenomenon object idea style lineage
• Andante music moderately slow
• Antebellum existing war american civil
• Aphotic devoid light areas naturally occurs
• Aposiopesis abrupt stop thought sentence speaker continue
• One’s apostasy abandonment religious faith political party principles
• Aqueous relating resembling water made
• Arabesque ballet twirl type artistry involving continuous rotating
• Aria air song melody solo opera accompanied instrumentation
• Artemisia type plant genus aromatic shrubs herbs
• Asphodel type flower underworld a
• Aubade poem song evocative dawn morning opposite nocturne
• Austere severe stern disposition discipline appearance somber grave
• Autumnal pertaining relating evocative autumn
• Auxiliary additional supplementary reserve acting subsidiary
• Azalea type plant common garden
• Balustrade architectural term series balusters parapet
• Bardiglio finely-grained multi-gray italian marble
• Basilica large public building romans courtroom meeting hall
• Bastille imprisonment jail prison
• Belladonna type plant highly poisonous pretty woman
• Belle-lettres beautiful letters aesthetic literature opposed didactic
• Bellwether leader indicator future trends trendsetter
• Belvedere roofed structure top building commands large view
• Holy bethesda hallowed sanctified place chapel ground
• Shadow bezaleel god god’s the
• Small bibelot trinket bauble object rare valuable beautiful
• Bijouterie pl trinkets jewelry gallery thereof display
• Blellum idle indiscreet talker noisy fainéant
• Bliss joy rapture elation felicity
• Blithe carefree nonchalant heedless lacking concern joyous
• Borasca squall accompanied thunder lightning
• Broad boulevard street avenue spectrum
• Breviloquence speech characterized brevity shortness briefness
• Caesura pause line verse poetry
• Calico coarse brightly printed cloth type pattern
• Calliope musical instrument fitted steam whistles played keyboard
• Callipygian beautiful admirable sexy butt
• Callow immature green lacking experience naïve
• Canticle song poem hymn church choir
• Capriccio music improvisation adherence rules
• Capriccioso music lively free restraint restriction direction
• Cascarilla west indian shrub aromatic bark typically incense
• Catena closely linked series connected related things writing
• Cello large stringed instrument generates deep tones
• Cellophane thin flexible transparent cellulose material moisture-proof wrapping
• Cellulite fatty deposit causing dimpled appearance thighs buttocks
• Celluloid transparent colorless synthetic plastic manufacture photographic film
• Cerumen yellow wax-like secretion external ears earwax
• Chariot four-wheeled horse-drawn war procession vehicle
• Chiasmus rhetorical term inverse sentence eat live
• Cicada loud locust-like insect chirrups
• Cinder burned substance longer capable combustion
• Circlet ring-shaped ornament piece jewelry head
• Circular related resembling circle of
• Cithara ancient greek instrument lyre
• Cleanse free dirt defilement guilt purge clean
• Coalesce fuse intersect entwine create unity unify external
• Coelacanth type prehistoric fish initially thought extinct
• Coercion act coercing pressure threats blackmail intimidation
• Colloquial informal speech conversationally as
• Coquelicot type plant red poppy
• Coriander type aromatic herb variety perfumes
• Corinthian pertaining corinth culture architectural term
• Cortical relating derived consisting cortex
• Cosmopolitan pertaining world large localized prejudices
• Coterie tightly-knit group persons common purpose interest cadre
• Crescendo music gradual increase tempo volume intensity
• Cumulonimbus type cloud augurs foretells bad weather
• Cursive flowing effusive wavy type handwriting english
• Cuvette small transparent tubular laboratory vessel
• Cyaneous type deep blue cerulean
• Cylinder long tubular geometric shape rendered dimensions
• Cymbal percussive instrument attached drum kit
• Tree cypress type swampy plant occurring swamps
• Cytherean pertaining beauty goddess aphrodite
• Dapple spot mottled marking occurring clusters tones hues
• Degringoladé rapid decline deterioration strength position condition
• Delineate describe explain demonstrate to
• Delitescent hidden concealed secret kept
• Dell small wooded valley vale
• Diaspora dissemination dispersion random selective re-distribution
• Dioscuric describing twin person event duplicate
• Dissemble disguise conceal one’s true motives feelings beliefs
• Divisi music term divided separated
• Eclipse obscuration light reduction loss splendor status reputation
• Effleurage light stroking movement massage soft caress
• Efflux flows effluence passing expiration time
• Eglantine type plant european rose sweetbrier
• Eidolon ghost specter reappearing continuously visiting persisting image
• Eleemosynary relating dependent charity contributed act
• Element fundamental essential irreducible constituent composite entity
• Eleven eleventh integer series the
• Elision omission vowel consonant syllable pronunciation
• Elliptical relating shape ellipse word omitted
• Elusive difficult find catch achieve avoiding tendency avoid
• Elysian blissful delightful pertaining fields elysium
• Elysium section underworld resting place heroes virtuous
• Emaciate make abnormally thin weak typically due illness
• Landing embarcadero place island waterway
• Ember small glowing fleck burning wood coal
• Dark emerald deep green gemstone
• Emulate strive equal excel imitation
• Enamel vitreous opaque protective decorative coating shell
• Enceinte pregnant carrying baby gravid line fortification enclosing
• Encomium formal enthusiastic praise abundant exuberant expression admiration
• Ensconce establish settle safe secure comfy place
• Young ephebe man swain suitor
• Epicede dirge requiem funeral song ode
• Epiphany revelation thought typically conceived eventful experience
• Equestrian relating featuring horseback riding
• Equinox annual event sun reaches height night day
• Eristic characterized disputatious subtle specious reasoning
• Small escadrille squadron team typically airplanes
• Escalade act scaling wall ladder rope
• Esclavage necklace rows chains beads jewels
• Esoterica item thing esoteric obscure rare valuable
• Evocative evokes reminds inspires impresses
• Excelsior fine curled wood shavings
• Existential relating dealing existence pertaining existentialism
• Expatiate speak write length considerable detail expound elaborate
• Facsimile copy reproduction item typically book
• Foliage plant leaves greenery collective
• Frescade cool breezy walk shady place relaxing ample
• Frolic behave playfully candidly romp engage flirting joking
• Furrow wrinkle rut groove trench
• Fuselage central body aircraft wings tail assembly attached
• Galaxy collection stars gas dust bound gravity
• Galleria spacious passageway court indoor mall vaulted roof
• Gallery raised area stepped sloping floor public building
• Glimpse incomplete view glance brief
• Gloaming dusk twilight evening vesper
• Gossamer delicate light flimsy transparent thin spider’s silk
• Grazioso direction music graceful smooth elegant style
• Halcyon legendary kingfisher tranquil calm strife serene
• Hegemony predominant influence dominance supremacy preeminence
• Henna reddish-brown dye tinting hair skin nails
• Hyacinth tropical american herb red transparent variety zircon
• Icicle sliver tapered frozen water hanging
• Idyllic idyll extremely happy peaceful picturesque
• Illusory produced based nature illusion deceptive
• Imbroglio extremely confused complicated embarrassing situation
• Imbue embed quality inspire permeate feeling
• Impluvium roman house rectangular pool atrium gather rain
• Incisive penetrating clear sharp operation expression
• Body inertia tendency resist acceleration rest stay
• Influenza acute contagious viral infection commonly called flu
• Ingénue naive innocent girl young woman
• Ingravescent gradually severe worsening medical condition
• Innocent sin pure free legal specific wrong guiltless
• Inoccuity quality state harmless trifling insipid
• Lacking insipid flavor zest excitement stimulation interest dull
• Inure effect accustomed typically unpleasant
• Isosceles triangle equal sides of
• Jacqueminot type flower crimson rose
• Juxtapose place side comparison contrast
• Kismet fate fortune chance faith
• L’esprit de l’escalier staircase wit usage witty retort
• Labial pertaining utilizing lips to
• Laconic speech matter-of-fact terse words
• Lambent glowing gleaming flickering soft radiance
• Lascivious lewd lustful prurient
• Lattice open framework material typically crisscross pattern
• Lavish expended bestowed occurring large amounts giving great
• Legerity mental physical agility dexterity quickness
• Leitmotif musical passage specific situation character idea
• Lemonade beverage typically consisting lemon juice sugar water
• Lesbian female sexually attracted women exclusively
• Large leviathan animal whale unusually size
• Liaison illicit sexual relationship case contact parties person
• Lilliputian small tiny pertaining lilliput
• Limerence extended infatuation crush contrast love
• Limousine slender car formal occasions notably expensive
• Linguistics pl study human speech languages writing
• Liquid state matter compare gas solid readiness flow
• Lithium silvery soft highly-reactive metal
• Litote rhetorical term specific type understatement
• Lochetic lying wait prey insects
• Loom art weaving view massive distorted indistinct image
• Lugubrious gloomy dismal exaggerated or
• Magisterial relating features master teacher authoritative
• Malady sickness illness ague ictus ailment
• Marcescent flower term withering falling
• Marmalade jellylike preserve made pulp fruits citrus
• Marmoreal made related marble of
• Matriculate admitted membership body society institution
• Matutinal relating occurring morning early
• Mausoleum large stately tomb building housing
• Mellifluous flowing sweetness honey smooth sweet sound voice
• Memento item special significance token remembrance
• Meretricious drawing attention vulgar manner gaudy tawdry superficially
• Mica thin layers specific transparent minerals
• Milieu surroundings environment social cultural nature
• Milquetoast timid unassertive spineless person easily intimidated
• Mimesis imitation representation world literature art mimicry
• Miniscule small diminutive compared normal counterpart
• Minutiae pl tiny precise details vestiges trifles
• Miscellany collection items parts ingredients
• Mithril fictional light silvery steel
• Murmuring mormorando musical direction sound
• Murmur low indistinct continuous sound utter
• Myriad multitude litany amount large collection numbers
• Myrrh fragrant resin gum type tree chiefly perfume
• Mystique special esoteric skill mysterious faculty essential calling
• Naiad nymph river lake fountain spring spirit
• Nenuphar water lily egyptian lotus
• Nimbus dark grey cloud bearing rain splendid atmosphere
• Nimiety excess overabundance superfluity
• Nirvana place state rest harmony pleasure
• Niveous snowy resembling snow relating made
• Nocive harmful injurious causing pain
• Noctilucence cloud phenomenon typified lights night visible glowing
• Nugacious trifling trivial insignificant unimportant worthless
• Nullifidian person faith religion convictions beliefs
• Numeral symbol represent denote symbolize number
• Numismatics study collection currency coins paper money
• Girl sexually nymphet pubescent regarded desirable young precocious
• Oasis fertile vibrant green spot desert wasteland
• Obsequious fawning sycophantic servile
• Ocelot undomesticated cat akin small leopard
• Oeuvre corpus author canon collective symposium
• Ophidian snake-like shaped relating snakes
• Opulence wealth affluence great abundance profusion pretentiousness
• Orbital pertaining relating orbit of
• Ossuary place container receptacle holding bones dead
• Palliasse mattress consisting thin pad filled straw sawdust
• Palliate alleviate reduce remove pain
• Pallid pale wan deficient color
• Panacea cure-all medicine herb concoction designed functioning
• Paramour lover adulterous relationship illicit
• Paraph flourish end signature safeguard forgery
• Paroxysm sudden attack convulsion seizure emotional medical nature
• Parvenu noveau-riche person risen status lacks social skills
• Pasquinade public farce satire lampoon
• Pastiche literary patchwork hodgepodge collision genres create item
• Pellucid translucently clear limpid ethereal
• Peninsula piece land surrounded water side
• Pensive brooding reflecting involving engaged deep thought
• Perennial lasting year typically plant
• Perforate pierce punch bore hole stab penetrate
• Permeate pervade spread flow diffuse
• Perpetuity quality condition perpetual ceaseless continual
• Philosophy discipline comprising aesthetics ethics metaphysics epistemology
• Pianissimo musical direction softly very
• Piquant aromatic appetizing appealingly provocative
• Ballet pirouette spin technique
• Pizzicato music term played plucking bowing
• Placid sedate calm peaceful relaxed serene
• Pococurante nonchalant indifferent lukewarm opinion insouciant
• Porcelain strong vitreous translucent ceramic glazed colored material
• Portico porch walkway roof supported columns leads entrance
• Portmanteau large suitcase merging words form pun
• Prelude preceding event action music term preliminary
• Preterlabent flowing river stream or
• Promethean boldly creative defiantly original deviating genius
• Proscenium greek roman theater stage part front curtain
• Prosody rhythm stress intonation speech
• Provocative tending serving provoke inciting stimulating irritating vexing
• Prurient relating typified lascivious lustful thoughts desires
• Psyche mind functional entity center thought feeling motivation
• Clown punchinello short fat puppet
• Pyrrhic victory high levels casualties damage sides
• Rapture ecstasy felicity state sheer happiness point delirium
• Items rariora pl unusual collector’s outstanding prize pieces
• Ratatouille type french dish vegetable stew
• Realm region kingdom plane domain territory
• Redolent piquant aromatic memory-invoking or
• Regalia emblems symbols royalty crown scepter jewelry
• Reliquary receptacle coffer shrine keeping displaying sacred relics
• Witty repartee swift reply conversation marked exchange retorts
• Palimpsest erased parchment reused manuscript written earlier
• Replica copy reproduction work art made original artist
• Resplendent sublime full color dazzling splendid
• Rhapsody impassioned inspired vibrant literature music
• Rimulose characterized small chinks fissures cracks
• Roseate rose-colored rosy optimistic cheerful bright promising
• Sable black type animal deep pelt
• Sapience rationality compare sentience wisdom sagacity
• Scepter rod wand adorned regalia
• Schefflera type shrubby tropical plants cultivated showy foliage
• Scialytic dispersing dismissing shadows typically light lamp
• Scilicet wit to that is
• Scion heir descendant twig shoot grafting tree shrub
• Scythe agricultural implement long curving blade fastened handle
• Seizure act condition instance seizing seized fit spasm
• Selcouth unusual rare unique strange
• Selenian designating relating pertaining moon
• Semblance apparent form reality of
• Semiotician studies applies explains theories semiotics
• Sempiternal eternal endless lasting forever ceaseless
• Senescence state growing cellular decomposition studies thereof
• Sequence succession arrangement related continuous series
• Seraglio harem house brothel living quarters thereof
• Serenity calmness tranquility relaxation
• Seventh integer series seven the
• Sforzando direction music suddenly strongly accented
• Shadow shade clear boundaries produced obscuration light
• Lacking shallow physical depth intellect emotion knowledge
• Shimmer shine subdued flickering wavering light
• Shiver tremble shudder shake a
• Sidereal related pertaining determined stars constellations
• Sidle walk furtive timid manner obliquely roundabout
• Sigil seal signet glyph sign image considered magical
• Silhouette picture outline human profile filled solid color
• Silkscreen stencil method printing design put silk fine
• Simulacrum image representation false unreal vague simulation semblance
• Sirocco hot humid south southeast wind southern italy
• Sittella small gregarious songbird a
• Sluice artificial channel conducting water valve gate regulate
• Sonata music series solos of
• Soothe allay alleviate relax pacify
• Soubrette saucy coquettish woman comedies
• Soufflé light fluffy baked dish
• Sough soft gentle sigh murmuring purling rustling sound
• Specious superficially plausible wrong misleading appearance
• Spinal pertaining relating spine to
• Splice infuse join interweave unite
• Suffuse gradually spread typically light color music liquid
• Sussurant whispering making continuous low indistinct sound
• Svelte suave urbane savvy slender lithe polished sophisticated
• Synchronicity theory study coincidences curiously similar events
• Synecdoche reference part opposed girl skirt ship sail
• Terms syzygy alignment unity specific objects notably space

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