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
Demure: Shy and reserved
Denouement: The resolution of a mystery
Desuetude: Disuse
Desultory: Slow, sluggish (like me :D)
Diaphanous: Filmy
Dissemble: Deceive
Dulcet: Sweet, sugary
Ebullience: Bubbling, enthusiasm
Effervescent: Bubbly (okay I really love the 'e' ones)
Efflorescence: Flowering, blooming
Elision: Dropping a sound or syllable in a word
Eloquence: Beauty and persuasion of speech
Embrocation: Rubbing on lotion
Emollient: A softener
Ephemeral: Short-lived
Epiphany: A sudden revelation
Erstwhile: At once
Evanescent: Vanishing quickly
Fetching: Pretty
Felicity: Pleasantness
Fugacious: Fleeting
Furtive: Sneaky (also like me)
Gambol: To skip
Glamour: Beauty (me again! joking :)
Gossamer: The finest piece of thread
Halcyon: Happy
Harbinger: Messenger with news of the future
Imbue: Infuse
Incipient: Beginning
Ineffable: Unutterable
Inglenook: A cozy place or nook (hence the name)
Labyrinthine: Twisting and turning
Lagniappe: A special gift
Lagoon: A small inlet
Languor: Listlessness
Lilt: Dancing, basically
Lissome: Slender and graceful
Mellifluous: Sweet sounding
Lithe: Flexible
Moiety: Half
Murmurous: Murmuring
Nemesis: An archenemy
Offing: The sea between the horizon and shore
Onomatopoeia: A word that sounds like its meaning
Opulent: Lush
Palimpsest: A written manuscript
Panacea: A solution
Panoply: A complete set
Petrichor: The smell of earth after rain
Plethora: A large number
Pyrrhic: Successful with heavy losses (what?)
Quintessential: Essential
Ratatouille: A spicy French stew (you thought of the movie) :)
Redolent: Fragrant
Riparian: By the bank of a stream
Scintilla: A spark
Sempiternal: Eternal
Summery: Light and delicate
Sumptuous: Lush again
Susurrous: Whispering
Talisman: A good luck charm
Vestigial: In triage amounts
Wafture: Waving
Woebegone: Downcast
Wherewithal: The means
And my favorite: Serendipity! (a delightful occurrence)
Haha hope this helped you in a way... Or entertained you for a few minutes. :)
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