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