Available Words - Updated List
Due to sindie. needing to take a break, I've volunteered to help keep track of words until she gets back. This is an updated list of available words to choose from - chosen words completely excluded for the convenience of any mobile users!
Ameliorate: To make or become better, more bearable, or more satisfactory
Assemblage: A gathering.
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.
Crestfallen: Dejected; dispirited; discouraged
Cynosure: A focal point of admiration.
Dalliance: A brief love affair.
Demure: Shy and reserved.
Denouement: The resolution of a mystery.
Desuetude: Disuse.
Desultory: Slow, sluggish.
Diaphanous: Filmy.
Dissemble: Deceive.
Ebullience: Bubbling enthusiasm.
Efflorescence: Flowering, blooming.
Effluence: The act or an instance of flowing out.
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.
Evocative: Suggestive.
Fetching: Pretty.
Felicity: Pleasantness.
Forbearance: Withholding response to provocation.
Frisson: A moment of intense excitement.
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.
Ingénue: A naïve young woman.
Inglenook: A cozy nook by the hearth.
Insouciance: Blithe nonchalance.
Inure: To become jaded.
Labyrinthine: Twisting and turning.
Lachrymose: Given to tears or weeping.
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.
Loquacious: Talking or tending to talk much or freely.
Mellifluous: Sweet sounding.
Moiety: One of two equal parts.
Mondegreen: A slip of the ear.
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: Proximity; Nearness
Pyrrhic: Successful with heavy losses.
Quintessential: Most essential.
Ravel: To knit or unknit.
Redolent: Fragrant.
Resplendence: Splendid or dazzling in appearance.
Riparian: By the bank of a stream.
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.
Soliloquy: The act of talking to oneself
Surreptitious: Secretive, sneaky.
Susurrous: Whispering, hissing.
Talisman: A good luck charm.
Untoward: Unseemly, inappropriate.
Vespertine: Relating to, or occurring in the evening.
Vestigial: In trace amounts.
Wafture: The act of waving or a wavelike motion.
Wherewithal: The means.
Woebegone: Sorrowful, downcast.
Zephyr: A gentle breeze.
Abeyance: Temporary inactivity, cessation, or suspension.
Acataphasia: A loss of the ability to express oneself using organized syntax.
Azure: A variation of blue that is often described as the color of the sky on a clear summer’s day
Benevolence: Desire to do good to others
Desiderium: An ardent longing, as for something lost
Ensorcell: To bewitch or enchant someone.
Juxtaposition: The state of being close together or side by side.
Sovereign: Having supreme rank, power, or authority.
Superfluous: Unnecessary or excessive.
Syllogism: An extremely subtle, sophisticated, or deceptive argument.
Synecdoche: Simultaneous understanding
Velvet: A very pleasant, luxurious, desirable situation.
Verisimilitude: A philosophical concept that distinguishes between the truth and the falsity of assertions and hypotheses.
EDIT: 7:47pm PST
The main post will now be edited by a mod. Good luck to everyone who entered!