English Vocabulary

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• Abstemious self-indulgent eating drinking not
• Aesthete affecting sensitivity beautiful art
• Aggrandize enhance power wealth position reputation
• Anathema omeone intensely disliked loathed
• Anodyne serving alleviate pain to
• Aquiline curving eagle's beak like
• Ascetic practicing strict self-denial measure personal spiritual discipline
• Asinine extremely utterly foolish silly
• Atavism recurrence reversion past style manner outlook approach
• Augury omen portent or a
• Autodidact self-taught person a
• Avuncular suggestive uncle kindliness geniality
• Bespoke custom made
• Bivouac temporary encampment shelter a
• Bloviate speak write verbosely windily
• Bonhomie good-natured easy friendliness
• Brouhaha hubbub uproar or
• Carapace protective decorative disguising shell
• Conviviality relating occupied fond feasting drinking good company
• Copacetic satisfactory very
• Crepuscular occurring active twilight or
• De jure based laws actions state
• Derisory worthy derision laughably small
• Dolorous causing marked expressing misery grief
• Doyen person considered knowledgeable uniquely skilled result long
• Dross waste foreign matter or
• Ebullient showing liveliness enthusiasm having
• Éclat ostentatious display
• Enigmatic mysterious
• Eructation act instance belching an
• Erudite showing knowledge gained studying
• Eucatastrophe sudden favorable resolution events story happy ending
• Fabulist creator writer fables a
• Facile easily accomplished attained or
• Fey marked foreboding death calamity
• Gaes obligation prohibition magically imposed person irish folklore
• Gestalt organized perceived sum parts
• Grimoire book magic spells invocations
• Grist material back argument useful
• Grok understand intuitively empathy something
• Hebetude state dull lethargic the
• Heuristic enabling discover learn someone
• Hikikomori japan abnormal avoidance social contact typically adolescent
• Printed incunabula early book an
• Internecine destructive sides conflict to
• Intestate made dies not having
• Jejune naive simplistic superficial and
• Jeremiad long mournful complaint lamentation list woes
• Kludge ill-assorted collection parts assembled fulfill purpose
• Koan paradoxical anecdote riddle zen buddhism demonstrate inadequacy
• Lacunae unfilled space interval gap
• Leporine resembling hare or of
• Malinger exaggerate feign illness order escape duty work
• Manumission release slavery from
• Martinet strict disciplinarian armed forces
• Obfuscate render obscure unclear unintelligible
• Ontology branch metaphysics dealing nature
• Onus disagreeable necessity obligation a
• Patois dialect common people region differing respects standard
• Pellucid translucently clear
• Penumbra partially shaded outer region shadow cast opaque
• Peripatetic traveling place working based short periods
• Peristalsis involuntary constriction relaxation muscles intestine canal creating
• Philippic bitter attack denunciation verbal
• Phototropism orientation plant organism response light source
• Plangent loud reverberating melancholy and
• Plinth heavy base supporting statue vase
• Pontificate express one's opinions considered annoyingly pompous dogmatic
• Profligate recklessly extravagant wasteful resources
• Puissant great power influence having
• Quixotic exceedingly idealistic unrealistic impractical
• Quotidian occurring day daily of
• Retinue group advisers assistants accompanying important person
• Salvific leading salvation to
• Sartorial relating tailoring clothes style dress
• Scintilla tiny trace spark quality feeling
• Screed long speech piece writing typically regarded tedious
• Scriptorium copying room scribes medieval monastery
• Sensate relating apprehending apprehended senses
• Sepulchre place burial tomb a
• Shibboleth word adherents party sect belief regarded empty
• Solipsism theory holding modifications existent thing
• Susurration whispering sound murmur a
• Trammeled catch hold net enmesh
• Travertine mineral consisting massive layered calcium carbonate aragonite
• Twee affectedly excessively dainty delicate cute quaint
• Uroboros circular symbol depicts snake dragon devouring tail
• Venal capable bought obtained money valuable consideration purchasable
• Viol bowed stringed instrument chiefly 16th 17th centuries
• Vituperative uttering censure characterized verbal abuse
• Vulpine relating resembling fox to
• State weltschmerz mental depression apathy caused comparison actual
• Whimsical resulting characterized whim caprice
• Zeitgeist general intellectual moral cultural climate era

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