In Love

With Words. I love words. I found this list of the 100 most beautiful words on my little thought of the day website today, and I just had to share!! There are some seriously FABULOUS words on this!! ENJOY:

1 adroit - Dexterous, agile.
2 adumbrate - To very gently suggest.
3 aestivate - To summer, to spend the summer.
4 ailurophile - A cat-lover.
5 beatific - Befitting an angel or saint.
6 beleaguer - To exhaust with attacks.
7 blandiloquent - Beautiful and flattering.
8 caliginous - Dark and misty.
9 champagne - An effervescent wine.
10 chatoyant - Like a cat's eye.
11 chiaroscuro - The arrangement of dark and light elements in a picture.
12 cockle - A heart-shaped bivalve or a garden flower.
13 colporteur - A book peddlar.
14 conflate - To blend together, to combine different things.
15 cynosure - A focal point of admiration.
16 desuetude - Disuse.
17 diaphanous - Filmy.
18 diffuse - Spread out, not focused or concentrated.
19 dulcet - Sweet, sugary.
20 ebullient - Bubbling with enthusiasm.
21 effervescent - Bubbly.
22 efflorescence - Flowering, the opening of buds or a bloom.
23 elixir - A good potion.
24 emollient - A softener.
25 encomium - A spoken or written work in praise of someone.
26 ephemeral - Short-lived.
27 epicure - A person who enjoys fine living, especially food and drink.
28 epiphany - A sudden revelation.
29 erstwhile - At one time, for a time.
30 eschew - To reject or avoid.
31 esculent - Edible.
32 esoteric - Understood only by a small group of specialists.
33 ethereal - Gaseous, invisible but detectable.
34 etiolate - White from no contact with light.
35 evanescent - Vanishing quickly, lasting a very short time.
36 exuberant - Enthusiastic, excited.
37 felicitous - Pleasing.
38 fescue - A variety of grass favored for pastures.
39 foudroyant - Dazzling.
40 fragile - Very, very delicate.
41 fugacioius - Running, escaping.
42 gambol - To skip or leap about joyfully.
43 glamour - Beauty.
44 gossamer - The finest piece of thread, a spider's silk.
45 halcyon - Happy, sunny, care-free.
46 hymeneal - Having to do with a wedding.
47 imbricate - To overlap to form a regular pattern.
48 imbroglio - An altercation or complicated situation.
49 imbue - To infuse, instill.
50 incipient - Beginning, in an early stage.
51 ingenue - A naïve young woman.
52 inglenook - The place beside the fireplace.
53 inspissate - To thicken.
54 inure - To jade.
55 jejune - Dull; childish.
56 lagniappe - A gift given to a customer for their patronage.
57 lagoon - A small gulf or inlet in the sea.
58 languor - Listlessness, inactivity.
59 lassitude - Weariness, listlessness.
60 laughter - The response to something funny.
61 lilt - To move musically or lively, to have a lively sound.
62 lithe - Slender and flexible.
63 loquacious - Talkative.
64 luxuriant - Thick, lavish.
65 mellifluous - Sweet-sounding.
66 missive - A message or letter.
67 moiety - One of two equal parts, a half.
68 mondegreen - A misanalyzed phrase.
69 nebulous - Foggy.
70 niveous - Snowy, snow-like.
71 obsequious -Fawning, subservience.
72 odalisque - A concubine in a harem.
73 oeuvre - A work.
74 offing - That part of the sea between the horizon and the offshore.
75 onomatopoeia - The creation of words by imitating sound.
76 paean - A formal expression of praise.
77 palimpsest - A manuscript written over one or more earlier ones.
78 panacea - A complete solution for all problems.
79 panoply - A complete set.
80 pastiche - A mixture of art work (art or music) from various sources.
81 peccadillo - A peculiarity.
82 pelagic - Related to the sea or ocean.
83 penumbra -A half-shadow, the edge of a shadow.
84 peregrination - Wandering, travels.
85 petrichor - The smell of earth after a rain.
86 plethora - A great excess, overabundance.
87 porcelain - A fine white clay pottery.
88 potamophilous - Loving rivers.
89 propinquity - An inclination or preference.
90 Pyrrhic - Victorious despite heavy losses.
91 quintessential - The ultimate, the essence of the essence.
92 redolent - Sweet-smelling.
93 rhapsody - A beautiful musical piece.
94 riparian - Having to do with the bank of a river or other body of water.
95 ripple - A small, circular wave emanating from a central point.
96 scintillate -To sparkle with brilliant light.
97 sempiternal - Forever and ever.
98 seraglio - Housing for a harem.
99 serendipity - Finding something while looking for something else.
100 surreptitious -Sneaky.

BONUS WORDS

101 sussurous - Producing a hushing sound, like flowing water.
102 symbiosis - Interdependence of two different species.
103 syzygy - The direct opposition of two heavenly bodies.
104 talisman - A symbolic object believed to have magical powers.
105 terpsichorean - Related to dance.
106 tintinnabulation - Ringing.
107 umbrageous - Shady.
108 vestige - A small fragment.
109 whisper - Speaking without vibrating the vocal folds.
110 zyzzyva - A kind of beetle