Words and More Words

Words and their definitions:

Luminous --Radiating or reflecting light;.well lighted; brilliantly intellectually; clear; readily intelligible
                 

Meliorate--To make better; improve; to grow better; evolve to higher plane
                

Apophasis--Allusion  via denial

                     
Diaphanous-- Thin; translucent; characterized by delicacy of  form; vague; insubstantial.
                     
                    
Unctuous--Fatty; oily; smooth and greasy in texture and appearance; insucurely smooth in speech and manner

                             
Imbroglio--A complicated and  embarrassing state of things; a confused disagreement; an intricately complicated plot; a confused mass; a tangle
                 
                              
Lubricious--Having a smooth or slippery quality, as in skin; lewd; wanton or lustful; salacious
                  

Valetudinarian--Weak and  sickly person chronically  focused on their health


Tetchy--Easily annoyed; oversensitive.


Doppleganger--A ghostly double; counterpart of a living person; alter ego; double
                        

Hyaline--Resembling glass in transparency; glassy; clear


Oeuvre--The works of a writer or painter taken as a
whole; any of the works of an author; body of work


Edacious --Having hug appetites; ravenous; excessively
                  eager; insatiable.


Lebensraum--Space required for living and development .


Wunderkind--A child prodigy; one who achieves great
                      acclaim or success at an early age.


Enigmatic--Mysterious


Vociferous--Making or given to noisy outcry; clamorous; noisy.


Diktat--An order or decree imposed without popular consent;
            a harsh settlement imposed on a defeated party.


Claque--A group of people hired to applaud at a performance.


Ululate--To howl or wail.


Susurrus--A whispering or rustling sound.


Tintinnabulation--The ringing, or sound of bells.


Cockalorum---A self-important, boastful person.

Cassandra--A daughter of Priam endowed with the
                   gift of prophecy but fated never to be
                   believed.


Kerf--To cut or carve in wood or metal or stone.

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