100 Beautiful Words in English

100 Beautiful Words in English
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adroit adj
Dexterous, agile.
adumbrate verb To very gently suggest.
aestivate verb
To summer, to spend
the summer.
ailurophile n A cat-lover.
beatific adj
Befitting an angel or
saint.
beleaguer
To exhaust with atverb
tacks.
blandiloquent Beautiful and flatteradj
ing.
caliginous adj Dark and misty.
champagne n An effervescent wine.
chatoyant adj Like a cat’s eye.
chiaroscuro
The arrangement of
dark and light elements
n / adj
in a picture.
cockle n
A heart-shaped bivalve
or a garden flower.
colporteur n
A book peddlar.
conflate verb
To blend together,
to combine different
things.
cynosure n
A focal point of admiration.
desuetude n
Disuse.
diaphanous adj Filmy.
diffuse verb
Spread out, not focused
or concentrated.
dulcet adj
Sweet, sugary.
ebullient adj
Bubbling with enthusiasm.
effervescent adj Bubbly.
efflorescence n Flowering, the opening
of buds or a bloom.
elixir n
A good potion.
emollient n
A softener.
encomium
A spoken or writn
ten work in praise of
someone.
ephemeral adj Short-lived.
epicure n
A person who enjoys
fine living, especially
food and drink.
epiphany adj
A sudden revelation.
erstwhile adj
At one time, for a time.
eschew verb
To reject or avoid.
esculent adj
Edible.
esoteric adj
Understood only by a
small group of specialists.
ethereal adj
Gaseous, invisible but
detectable.
etiolate adj
White from no contact
with light.
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36 exuberant adj
37 felicitous adj
38 fescue n
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foudroyant adj
fragile adj
fugacioius adj
gambol verb
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44 gossamer n
45 halcyon adj
46 hymeneal adj
47 imbricate verb
48 imbroglio n
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imbue verb
incipient adj
ingenue n
inglenook n
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inspissate verb
inure verb
jejune adj
lagniappe n
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58 languor n
59 lassitude n
60 laughter
61 lilt adj
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lithe adj
loquacious adj
luxuriant adj
mellifluous adj
missive n
moiety n
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mondegreen n
nebulous adj
niveous adj
obsequious adj
odalisque n
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Vanishing quickly, lasting a very short time.
Enthusiastic, excited.
Pleasing.
A variety of grass
favored for pastures.
Dazzling.
Very, very delicate.
Running, escaping.
To skip or leap about
joyfully.
Beauty.
The finest piece of
thread, a spider’s silk.
Happy, sunny, care-free.
Having to do with a
wedding.
To overlap to form a
regular pattern.
An altercation or complicated situation.
To infuse, instill.
In an early stage.
A naïve young woman.
The place beside the
fireplace.
To thicken.
To jade.
Dull; childish.
A gift given to a customer for patronage.
A small gulf or inlet in
the sea.
Listlessness, inactivity.
Weariness, listlessness.
The response to something funny.
To move musically or
with a lively sound.
Slender and flexible.
Talkative.
Thick, lavish.
Sweet-sounding.
A message or letter.
One of two equal parts,
a half.
A misanalyzed phrase.
Foggy.
Snowy, snow-like.
Fawning, subservience.
A concubine in a
harem.
A work.
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That part of the sea
between horizon and
offshore.
onomatoThe creation of words
poeia n
by imitating sound.
paean n
A formal expression of
praise.
palimpsest
A manuscript written
n
over one or more earlier
ones.
panacea n
A complete solution for
all problems.
panoply n
A complete set.
pastiche n
A mixture of art work
(art or music) from
various sources.
peccadillo n
A peculiarity.
pelagic adj
Related to the sea or
ocean.
penumbra
A half-shadow, the edge
n
of a shadow.
peregrination Wandering, travels.
n
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86 plethora n
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The smell of earth after
a rain.
A great excess, overabundance.
A fine white clay pottery.
Loving rivers.
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89 propinquity n An inclination or
preference.
90 Pyrrhic adj
Victorious despite heavy
losses.
91 quintessential The ultimate, the esadj
sence of the essence.
92 redolent adj
Sweet-smelling.
93 rhapsody n
A beautiful musical
piece.
94 riparian adj
Having to do with the
bank of a river or other
body of water.
95 ripple verb
Circular waves emanating from a central
point.
96 scintillate verb To sparkle with brilliant light.
97 sempiternal adj Forever and ever.
98 seraglio n
Housing for a harem.
99 serendipity n Finding something
while looking for something else.
100 surreptitious Sneaky.
adj

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