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Rendezvous - a secret meeting Moccasin - a flat shoe Machiavellian - cunning, clever Disparage - to speak critically Restaurateur - the owner

of a restaurant Plagiarize - cheat and then pretend its your own work Persevere - continue trying in spite of difficulty Endure - experience and cope with prolonged pain Alacrity - eager enthusiasm Zucchini - a vegetable Pseudonym - a false name (especially used by an author) French wordnom de plume Philanthropic - helping the poor by giving them money Immaculate - completely clean Ideal - most suitable, perfect Idle - not working or in use Idyll - a very happy or peaceful situation Idol - a greatly admired person Illusion - a thing that seems to be something it is not Hallucination - seeing something which is actually not present Delusion - a mistaken belief Haggle bar gain over a price Flamboyant - very confident or lively, show-off attitude

Lullaby - a sweet song to make a child go to sleep Unabashed - not bothered, not ashamed Grenade - An atom bomb Muzzle - the front part of a gun, from where the bullet travels Ardent - enthusiastic or passionate (the lady had an ardent desire to go to America) Savouring - enjoy the taste of a food or drinks Subdural - internal Grin - a smile Rambunctiousness - highly energetic Hemorrhage - heavy bleeding Kennel - a shelter for a dog Confinement - to live alone, imprisonment Pursuit - search, quest Curriculum vitae - resume`, bio data (information about ourselves, our achievements) Irrepressible - unable to be restrained Restrain - keep under control Queer - weird, odd, strange Souvenir - a thing that you keep you remind yourself of a place Magnificent - exemplary, excellent, perfect Hypocrite - fraud, scam Alliteration - Alliteration is the repetition of consonant sounds

Inscrutable - impossible to interpret Stoic - enduring pain, hardship without complaint Impassive - without any expression Ignominious/ignominy - public disgrace Quell - suppress Bedraggled - untidy Eerie - weird Demur - reluctance Porky - fat, not intellectual Quailed - feared Decorous - soft, calm Fat headedness - foolishness Wrath - anger Ubiquitous - present everywhere Resilient - strong, unbreakable Officious - bossy Intruder - the one of interrupts Guttural - a sound produced in throat Entreated - beg The fat in the fire - there would be trouble Satire mocking way, spoof Attire - dress Nostalgia - longing for something past

Liquorice a candy Peril danger Amalgam a mixture of silver and mercury to fill the decayed teeth Reproachful a look to show that you are criticizing someone Musketry the art of shooting a gun Choux a kind of light pastry Affinity a natural attraction Maladies illness, problems Euphoric a feeling of great happiness Azure a color, a light purplish blue Bauble a cheap ornament Bliss extreme happiness Cataclysmic extremely destructive Empress a woman ruler Enigma mystery, puzzle, riddle Equinox - either of the two times during a year when the sun crosses the celestial equator and when the length of day and night is approximately equal Evanescence vanish or likely to vanish like vapor Flapdoodle foolish talks Doodle a simple picture Gallivant to roam around in search of pleasure Hallelujah used to express praise or joy

Retrospect to refer back to the past Onomatopoeia words which sound like their meanings Panache - style, elegance Peculiar odd, strange Ravenous greedy Abysmal very bad Juvenile childish Proxy instead of Vicinity a nearby place Immerse submerge in a liquid Condescend to look down upon something Envy jealousy Drivel nonsense Martyr a person who exaggerates their difficulties to gain sympathy Threshold the sill of a door; a horizontal piece of wood or stone that forms the bottom of a doorway and offer support when passing through a doorway Hospice a guesthouse with special care facilities Monetary issues dealing with money Sans without Deprecating - to express disapproval Grotesque ugly, disorted Epicurean good taste is food

Poinsettia Christmas flowers

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