# english 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 egregious emaciated enamor enervated epistemology erudition espoused felicity fiduciary fixin florid forlorn forsooth foundering gangling garrulously glibly gregarious grovelling haughty havoc hovel humdrum iconoclastic improvident inchoate incipient indolence inimical iniquity insipidity insolent insouciance intrepid inveterate irreverent jest jinx keel lest magnanimity meander 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 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 # links * [online writing support](https://webapps.towson.edu/ows/index.asp)