Indie Scribe Magazine April 2014 | Page 35

Scintilla A spark or very small thing.

Sempiternal Eternal.

Surreptitious Secretive, sneaky.

Susurrous Whispering, hissing.

Tintinnabulation Tinkling.

Vestigial In trace amounts.

Wafture Waving.

Lagniappe A special kind of gift.

Languor Listlessness, inactivity.

Lassitude Weariness, listlessness.

Mellifluous Sweet sounding.

Moiety One of two equal parts.

Mondegreen A slip of the ear.

Offing The sea between the horizon and the offshore.

Palimpsest A manuscript written over earlier ones.

Panacea A solution for all problems

Panoply A complete set.

Penumbra A half-shadow.

Petrichor The smell of earth after rain.

Pyrrhic Successful with heavy losses.

Redolent Fragrant.

Riparian By the bank of a stream.

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From: 100 Most beautiful words in the English language*

May 13, 2011Shonari