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100 beautiful words

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QuestionAnswer
Woebegone Sorrowful, downcast
Wherewithal The means
Wafture Waving
Vestigial In trace amounts.
Untoward Unseemly, inappropriate
Tintinnabulation Tinkling
Susurrous Whispering, hissing
Panoply a magnificent or impressive array
Pastiche art work combining materials from various sources.
Penumbra A half-shadow/ grey area in legislation w/no clearly defined meaning
Petrichor The smell of earth after rain.
Propinquity An inclination.
Pyrrhic Successful with heavy losses.
Quintessential Most essential.
Redolent Fragrant
Riparian By the bank of a stream
Scintilla A spark, a bit.
Sempiternal of never ending duration.
Seraglio Rich, luxurious oriental palace or harem.
Serendipity Finding something nice while looking for something else.
Surreptitious Secretive, sneaky.
Sobriquet nickname, or descriptive phrase
Ipsative (psychology) forced choice between two options based on which is preferable
Ipsative (education) practice of assessing present performance against the prior performance of the student
Aphesis dropping an initial vowel, as in 'cept (accept? except?), 'tention (attention), 'rithmetic, (arithmetic), 'bout (about
Apocope dropping a final vowel, as in mate, mete, mite, mote, mute (the so-called silent e isn't silent, it has long since vanished forever in our speech);
syncope dropping internal vowels, as in p'lute, p'lice, prob'ly, cam'ra, s'crete, to s'cumb to scum, to Clyde on the parkway and go d'reckly to the hospital while your car is towed to a g'rage
APOPHASIS : the raising of an issue by claiming not to mention it (as in “we won't discuss his past crimes”)
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