"Mellifluous"

In high school, I often listened to mellifluous music after school and work to help me relax before bedtime.

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"Bumptious"

The young man's coworkers were turned off by his bumptious actions and haughty claims.

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"Eleemosynary"

The lady hoped to donate unwanted possessions to various eleemosynary organizations.

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"Ken"

My sports ken is limited--I wasn't good at sports, and never cared to learn much about them in school.

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"Somnolent"

I was feeling rather somnolent after my long walk on Friday.

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"Imbroglio"

It took 15 years for the imbroglio between the former best friends to cool off, and the friendship never was the same afterwards.

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"Gainsay"

School administration just had to gainsay my idea of raising funds to pave the high school parking lot. Instead, any extra money went toward athletics. Go figure.

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"Paladin"

My friend, a paladin for Earth Day, strongly encouraged everyone to reduce, reuse, and recycle yesterday.

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"Invidious"

The invidious statements printed in the newspaper only furthered the cause of the group to whom the statements were directed.

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"Peccadillo"

I suppose that getting pulled over for a burnt-out license plate bulb was only a minor peccadillo; it was still humilating, though.

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"Stormy Petrel"

"I'd like to find the stormy petrel who started spreading rumors about me," Jasmine said to Jayden. Little did she know that Jayden was the culprit.

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"Crepuscular"

Sitting around the campfire, I was able to admire the beauty of the crepuscular countryside as night began to fall and the air picked up a chill.

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"Quiddity"

The quiddity of the beach trip is warm sunshine and crashing waves on the shore.

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"Ephemeral"

The girls found that going shopping only brought them ephemeral happiness.

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"Etiolate"

After losing his best friend in the war, the young soldier's morale began to etiolate to the point he could no longer remember why he volunteered in the first place.

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"Outre"

The comedian made a living with his outre statements and actions.

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"Labile"

Water is a labile compound: at 32 degrees Fahrenheit, it freezes, and at 212 Fahrenheit, it boils. Somewhere in between, it is a liquid.

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"Susurrus"

The children wandered through the woods, harkening to the susurrus of the leaves beneath their feet and the wind through the autumn trees. Surely they would be through the maze and back to the Halloween party soon...

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"Pulchritude"

The print ads focused heavily on the pulchritude of the models to sell their products.

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"Portend"

The dark clouds portend a heavy rain, possibly accompanied by thunderstorms.

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"Frisson"

The excitement of the roller coaster was but a brief frisson, as the ride was quite short.

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"Impugn"

The skeptics liked to impugn the philanthropist's charity work.

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"Chimerical"

He thought his dreams were just chimerical fantasies until he started achieving his goals one by one.

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"Nescience"

The tourists' nescience of the area led them to assume that they were in a safe part of town; fortunately, they wandered back into the "touristy" part of the city before anything ugly happened.

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"Aegis"

The little boy depended on the aegis of his mother to get through life; his mother, on the other hand, tried to cultivate independence in the boy's young mind.

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"Grandiloquent"

The man's grandiloquent manner intimidated his older brother.

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"Flummox"

Texas has completely flummoxed my sense of direction: as I type this, I can't tell which direction I'm facing.

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"Longueur"

I have a feeling that many students skip the longueurs of assigned reading and focus mainly on the interesting areas.

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"Gambol"

My friend's little boy gamboled around the mall like a mischievous sprite or pixie.

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"Jape"

It's April 1st, so beware of the jape. Trickery abounds as practical jokers and pranksters prey on their unsuspecting victims today.

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