26 - UK - Engaged

wynaut:

• Ailurophile: A cat-lover.
• Assemblage: A gathering.
• Becoming: Attractive.
• Beleaguer: To exhaust with attacks.
• Brood: To think alone.
• Bucolic: In a lovely rural setting.
• Bungalow: A small, cozy cottage.
• Chatoyant: Like a cat’s eye.
• Comely: Attractive.
• Conflate: To blend together.
• Cynosure: A focal point of admiration.
• Dalliance: A brief love affair.
• Demesne: Dominion, territory.
• Demure: Shy and reserved.
• Denouement: The resolution of a mystery.
• Desuetude: Disuse.
• Desultory: Slow, sluggish.
• Diaphanous: Filmy.
• Dissemble: Deceive.
• Dulcet: Sweet, sugary.
• Ebullience: Bubbling enthusiasm.
• Effervescent: Bubbly.
• Efflorescence: Flowering, blooming.
• Elision: Dropping a sound or syllable in a word.
• Elixir: A good potion.
• Eloquence: Beauty and persuasion in speech.
• Embrocation: Rubbing on a lotion.
• Emollient: A softener.
• Ephemeral: Short-lived.
• Epiphany: A sudden revelation.
• Erstwhile: At one time, for a time.
• Ethereal: Gaseous, invisible but detectable.
• Evanescent: Vanishing quickly, lasting a very short time.
• Evocative: Suggestive.
• Fetching: Pretty.
• Felicity: Pleasantness.
• Forbearance: Withholding response to provocation.
• Fugacious: Fleeting.
• Furtive: Shifty, sneaky.
• Gambol: To skip or leap about joyfully.
• Glamour: Beauty.
• Gossamer The finest piece of thread, a spider’s silk
• Halcyon: Happy, sunny, care-free.
• Harbinger: Messenger with news of the future.
• Imbrication: Overlapping and forming a regular pattern.
• Imbroglio: An altercation or complicated situation.
• Imbue: To infuse, instill.
• Incipient: Beginning, in an early stage.
• Ineffable: Unutterable, inexpressible.
• Ingénue: A naïve young woman.
• Inglenook: A cozy nook by the hearth.
• Insouciance: Blithe nonchalance.
• Inure: To become jaded.
• Labyrinthine: Twisting and turning.
• Lagniappe: A special kind of gift.
• Lagoon: A small gulf or inlet.
• Languor: Listlessness, inactivity.
• Lassitude: Weariness, listlessness.
• Leisure: Free time.
• Lilt: To move musically or lively.
• Lissome: Slender and graceful.
• Lithe: Slender and flexible.
• Love: Deep affection.
• Mellifluous: Sweet sounding.
• Moiety: One of two equal parts.
• Mondegreen: A slip of the ear.
• Murmurous: Murmuring.
• Nemesis: An unconquerable archenemy.
• Offing: The sea between the horizon and the offshore.
• Onomatopoeia: A word that sounds like its meaning.
• Opulent: Lush, luxuriant.
• Palimpsest: A manuscript written over earlier ones.
• Panacea: A solution for all problems
• Panoply: A complete set.
• Pastiche: An art work combining materials from various sources.
• Penumbra: A half-shadow.
• Petrichor: The smell of earth after rain.
• Plethora: A large quantity.
• Propinquity: An inclination.
• Pyrrhic: Successful with heavy losses.
• Quintessential: Most essential.
• Ratatouille: A spicy French stew.
• Ravel: To knit or unknit.
• Redolent: Fragrant.
• Riparian: By the bank of a stream.
• Ripple: A very small wave.
• Scintilla: A spark or very small thing.
• Sempiternal: Eternal.
• Seraglio: Rich, luxurious oriental palace or harem.
• Serendipity: Finding something nice while looking for something else.
• Summery: Light, delicate or warm and sunny.
• Sumptuous: Lush, luxurious.
• Surreptitious: Secretive, sneaky.
• Susquehanna: A river in Pennsylvania.
• Susurrous: Whispering, hissing.
• Talisman: A good luck charm.
• Tintinnabulation: Tinkling.
• Umbrella: Protection from sun or rain.
• Untoward: Unseemly, inappropriate.
• Vestigial: In trace amounts.
• Wafture: Waving.
• Wherewithal: The means.
• Woebegone: Sorrowful, downcast.

• Baisemain: a kiss on the hand.
• Basorexia: an overwhelming desire to neck or kiss.
• Brontide: the low rumbling of distant thunder.
• Dactylion: the tip of a middle finger.
• Dendolatry: worship of trees.
• Epeolatry: worship of words.
• Gargalesthesia: the sensation caused by tickling.
• Lethologica: the inability to recall a precise word for something.
• Lygerastia: the condition of one who is only amorous when the lights are out.
• Naupathia: sea sickness.
• Nudiustertian: pertaining to the day before yesterday.
• Petrichor: the smell of rain on dry ground.
• Psithurism: a whispering sound, i.e: the sound of wind in trees, or rustling leaves.
• Tacenda: things not to be mentioned.
• Witzelsucht: a feeble attempt at humour.
• Woundy: excessively; extremely.