# english
interesting words and phrases

# words
abject, abrogate, acerbic, acquiescent, alacrity, allay, amiable, amicable, assiduously, auspicious, avarice, avow, avuncular, baying, beckon, belligerence, bereft, betide, blandishment, blotchy, bourn, brachiating, capricious, chagrin, chicanerous, chide, churlish, circumspect, clandestine, cloying, confer, confounding, congenital, consign, consternation, contumely, convival, curmudgeon, curt, dalliance, dastardly, diaphanous, din, disapprobation, 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, ignominy, impinge, improvident, inchoate, incipient, indelibly, 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, askance, aspersions, bated, betide, bide, clarion, dudgeon, dulcet, forfend, fro, inclement, knell, nape, petard, shebang, shrift, serried, spick, squib

# 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

the attorney comported himself indecorously

it appears you are laboring under a misapprehension

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

that surpasseth all understanding

rue the day

a mellifluous cadence

# paragraphs
at day's reluctant end, his uxorious devotion threw into relief the studied insouciance with which she received it - not mere indifference, but a disposition so habitual as to constitute its own form of constancy. through the vicissitudes of their intertwined passage, his ardor remained undiminished, meeting inimical forces with a charm neither sycophantic nor performed, but native to his temperament. his verbosity in matters of the heart, rather than attesting to excess, disclosed an asymmetry he had ceased to resist: he spoke because she did not, and the silence was his to fill. the contumely of envious observers marred the exercise of his obligations without penetrating his resolve; he discharged each duty with alacrity, and met the capricious reversals of fortune with an imperturbability owed less to stoic discipline than to a settled conviction regarding what was worth preserving.

within the chiaroscuro their union cast, shadow connoted not absence but differential intensity, the same light rendering both his vigilance and her repose. he maintained an ineffable conviction that the apparent disequilibrium of their bond was not a deficit awaiting correction but an achieved configuration, hermetic and self-sustaining, governed not by turbulent impulse but by the gravitas of mutual, if asymmetric, accord. dissonance was neither eradicated nor suppressed; transmuted by the pressure of prolonged adjacency, it resolved into a quietude borne of inexorable alignment. their ethos, baroque in elaboration, rested upon a foundational equanimity impervious to entropy: not the equanimity of indifference, but of a system that had already absorbed its contradictions.

# links
* [online writing support](https://webapps.towson.edu/ows/index.asp)