2025-03-18

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interesting words and phrases

words

abject

abrogate

acquiescent

alacrity

allay

amiable

amicable

assiduously

auspicious

avarice

avow

avuncular

baying

beckon

belligerence

bereft

betide

blandishment

blotchy

bourn

brachiating

capricious

chagrin

chide

circumspect

clandestine

confer

confounding

congenital

consign

consternation

contumely

convival

curt

dalliance

diaphanous

din

discourteously

doting

effulgent

egregious

emaciated

enamor

enervated

epistemology

erudition

espoused

felicity

fiduciary

fixin

florid

forlorn

forsooth

foundering

fusty

gangling

garrulously

glibly

gregarious

grovelling

haughty

havoc

hovel

humdrum

iconoclastic

improvident

inchoate

incipient

indolence

ineffable

inimical

iniquity

insipidity

insolent

insouciance

intrepid

inveterate

irreverent

jejune

jest

jinx

keel

lest

lugubrious

magnanimity

meander

mellifluous

minnow

muggy

nascent

obsequious

obstreperous

opprobrium

paucity

perfunctory

perspicacious

perspicacity

phantasmagoria

placate

poignant

ponder

portent

preening

prevarication

prickliness

prolixity

promulgate

prurient

purview

qualms

rabble-rouser

rambunctious

recalcitrant

sagacious

salience

salubrious

sangfroid

sanguine

sequacious

sneering

spurn

supplely

surliness

surreptitiously

suss

sycophantic

taciturn

tarnish

tendentious

tenuous

titillate

to quiver

torrid

traipsing

tyro

unctuous

unloquacious

uppity

usurp

uxorious

vacillation

vagrant

variegation

veer

verisimilitude

vexing

vicarious

vicissitudes

vituperative

volubly

votary

wilt

phrases

acolytes would love to see the master in high dudgeon

caulk the roughened edges

emotionally salient memories

perpetually stooped

pertinaciously obstinate, yet capricious and vacillating

rue the day

that surpasseth all understanding

the attorney comported himself indecorously

well nigh abandoned

with a wild pang of woe

there was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, the earth, and every common sight. to me did seem apparelld in celestial light

a mellifluous cadence

paragraphs

at days reluctant end, his uxorious devotion contrasted starkly with her insouciance. through the vicissitudes of their intertwined journey, his unctuous charm endured even when confronted by inimical forces intent on undermining their bond. his verbosity in matters of the heart, though occasionally burdensome, attested to an unwavering commitment. the fiduciary duties he discharged with alacrity were marred only by the contumely of those who envied his success, yet he faced each day with imperturbable resolve, undeterred by the capricious vagaries of fate.

within the chiaroscuro of their shared existence, he maintained an ineffable conviction that all within their orbit would settle into tranquility, governed not by turbulent impulse but by the gravitas of mutual accord. in this hermetic constellation of affect and obligation, dissonance was not eradicated but transmuted into a quietude borne of inexorable alignment. their ethos, though baroque in expression, was underpinned by a cosmic equanimity, impervious to entropy and disdainful of disarray.

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