Words can be wonderful - and why limit oneself to a mediocre vocabulary? I challenge ye to incorporate one of these felicitous phrases into your speech every day!


Aestivate To summer, to spend the summer.
Beatific Befitting an angel or saint.
Beleageur To exhaust with attacks.
Blandiloquent Beautiful and flattering.
Ebullient Bubbling with enthusiasm.
Effervescent Bubbly.
Epicure A person who enjoys fine living, especially food and drink.
Erstwhile At one time, for a time.
Eschew To reject or avoid.
Etiolate White from no contact with light.
Evanescent Vanishing quickly, lasting a very short time.
Exuberant Enthusiastic, excited.
Foudroyant Dazzling.
Fugacioius Running, escaping.
Gambol To skip or leap about joyfully.
Imbroglio An altercation or complicated situation.
Inglenook The place beside the fireplace.
Inure To jade.
Jejune Dull; childish.
Languor Listlessness, inactivity.
Lassitude Weariness, listlessness.
Lilt To move musically or lively.
Loquacious Talkative.
Luxuriant Thick, lavish.
Mellifluous Sweet-sounding.
Obsequious Fawning, subservience.
Odalisque A concubine in a harem.
Oeuvre A work.
Paean A formal expression of praise.
Panacea A complete solution for all problems.
Panoply A complete set.
Pastiche A mixture of art work from various sources - like this blog, in fact!
Peccadillo A peculiarity.
Peregrination Wandering, travels.
Petrichor The smell of earth after a rain.
Plethora A great excess, overabundance.
Potamophilous Loving rivers.
Propinquity An inclination or preference.
Pyrrhic Victorious despite heavy losses.
Quintessential The ultimate, the essence of the essence.
Redolent Sweet-smelling.
Scintillate To sparkle with brilliant light.
Sempiternal Forever and ever.
Sussorous Producing a hushing sound, like flowing water.
Tintinnabulation Ringing