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Beleaguer
the exhaust with attacks
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Bucolic
In a lovely rural setting
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Chatoyant
Like a cat's eye
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conflate
to blend together
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Cynosure
the focal point of admiration
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Dallience
A breif love affair
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Demesne
Dominion, territory
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Denouement
the resolution of a mystery
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Ebullience
Bubbling enthusiasm
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Efflorescence
flowering, blooming
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Elision
dropping a sound of syllable in a word
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embrocation
rubbing on a lotion
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erstwhile
at one time, for a time
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ethereal
invisible but detectable
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evanescent
vanishing quickly, lasting a very short time
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forbearance
withholding response to provocation
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gambol
to skip or leap about joyfully
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gossamer
the finest piece of thread, a spiders silk
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halcyon
happy, sunny, care-free
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harbinger
messenger with the news of the future
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imbrication
overlapping and forming a regular pattern
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imbroglio
an altercation or complicated situation
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incipient
beginning, in an early stage
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ingenue
a naive young woman
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inglenook
a cozy nook by the hearth
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insouciance
blithe nonchalance
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lagniappe
a special kind of gift
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languor
listlessness, inactivity
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lassitude
weariness, listlessness
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lissome
slender and graceful
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lithe
slender and flexable
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mellifluous
sweet sounding, flowing like honey
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moiety
one of two equal parts
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mondegreen
a slip of the ear
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nemesis
an unconquerable archenemy
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offing
the sea out on the horizon, the near future
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palimpsest
a manuscript written over earlier ones
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panacea
a solution for all problems
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petrichor
the smell of earth after the rain
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plethora
a large quantity
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propinquity
an inclination
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pyrrhic
successful with heavy losses
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quintessential
most essential, the essence of something at its core
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riparian
by the bank of a stream
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scintilla
a spark or very small thing
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seraglio
rich, luxurious oriental place or harem
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serendipity
finding something nice while looking for something else
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sumptuous
lush, luxurious
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susurrus
whispering, hissing
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talisman
a good luck charm
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tintinnabulation
tinkling
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umbrella
protection from sun or rain
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untoward
unseemly, inappropriate
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vestigial
in trace amounts
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woebegone
sorrowful, downcast
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lugubrious
mournful, sad, of gloomy
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winch
a device used for hoisting or hauling
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melee
a confused fight, skirmish, or a scuffle; a confused mass of people
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soporific
makes you sleepy
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collude
to conspire, to act together secretly
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necromancy
the dark arts (communicating with the dead, witchcraft)
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hortatory
- giving strong encouragement;
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sorties
an attack made by soldiers in a defensive position
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demotic
relating to the common pan; common to popular
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unguents
a salve or soomething cream
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prurient
excessively sexual
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Irony
when someone says or does the opposite of what is expected
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cosmic irony
the idea that the fates are working agaist us
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dramatic irony
when the audience knows somwthing the characters don't
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circumlocution
talking in circles and not going straight to the main point
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obfudcation
intentionally making something confusing or complex
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pedant/ pedantic
one who is overly showy of their knowledge in an obnoxious way
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erudite/ -ition
being knowledgeable or scholarly in presentation
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periphrasis
an elaborate and round about way of saying something simple
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aposeopesis
a breaking off in speech with an implied ending
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synaethesia
the use of one sence to describe the experince of another
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soliloquiy
a monologue by an actor meant to show the characters thoughts about a decision
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