Beautiful words to liven up your writing.
Assemblage: A gathering
Becoming: Attractive
Beleaguer: To exhaust with attacks
Brood: To think alone
Bucolic: In a lovely rural setting
Bungalow: A small, cozy cottage
Chatoyant: Like a cat's eye
Comely: Attractive
Conflate: To blend together
Cynosure: A focal point of admiration
Dalliance: A brief love affair
Demesne: Dominion, or territory
Demure: Shy and reserved
Denouement: The resolution of a mystery
Desuetude: Disuse
Desultory: Slow, sluggish
Diaphanous: Filmy
Dissemble: Deceive
Dulcet: Sweet, sugary
Ebullience: Bubbling enthusiasm
Effervescent: Bubbly
Efflorescence: Flowering, blooming
Elixir: A high-quality potion
Eloquence: Beauty and persuasion in speech
Embrocation: Rubbing on a lotion
Emollient: A softener
Ephemeral: Short-lived
Epiphany: A sudden revelation
Erstwhile: At one time, for a time
Ethereal: Gaseous, invisible but detectable
Evanescent: Vanishing quickly, or short-lived
Evocative: Suggestive
Fetching: Pretty/handsome
Felicity: Pleasantness
Forbearance: Withholding response
Fugacious: Fleeting
Furtive: Shifty/sneaky
Gambol: Skip or leap about joyfully
Glamour: beauty
Gossamer: Finest piece of thread, or spider's silk
Halcyon: Happy, care-free
Harbinger: Messenger for future events
Imbrication: overlapping and forming a regular pattern
Imbroglio: An altercation or complicated situation
Imbue: infuse, instill
Incipient: Beginning, or early stage
Ineffable: Unutterable
Ingenue: A naive young woman
Inglenook: A cozy nook by the hearth
Insouciance: Blithe nonchalance
Inure: to become jaded
Labyrinthine: Twisting and turning
Lagniappe: A special kind of gift
Lagoon: A small gulf or inlet
Languor: Listlessness, inactive
Lassitude: Weariness
Leisure: free time
Lilt: To move musically or lively
Lissome: slender and graceful
Lithe: Slender and flexible
Mellifluous: Sweet sounding
Moiety: One of two equal parts
Mondegreen: A slip of the ear
Murmurous: Murmuring
Nemesis: An unconquerable archenemy
Offing: The sea between the horizon and the shore
Onomatopoeia: A word which sounds like its meaning
Opulent: lush, luxurious
Palimpsest: A manuscript written over earlier ones
Panacea: A solution for all problems
Panoply: A complete set
Pastiche: An art work combining materials from various sources
Penumbra: half-shadow
Petrichor: The smell of earth after the rain
Plethora: a large quantity
Propinquity: an inclination
Pyrrhic: successful with heavy losses
Quintessential: Most essential
Ravel: To Knit or unknit
Redolent: Fragrant
Riparian: By the bank of a stream
Ripple: a small wave
Scintilla: A spark or very small thing
Sempiternal: Eternal
Serendipity: finding something nice while looking for something else
Summery: light, delicate or warm and sunny
Sumptuous: lush, yummy
Surreptitious: Secretive
Susurrous: Whispering, hissing
Talisman: good luck charm
Tintinnabulation: Tinkling
Untoward: Unseemly, inappropriate
Vestigial: In trace amounts
Wafture: waving
Wherewithal: the means
Woebegone: sorrowful, downcast
These words can liven up your writing, but use them sparingly, lest you sound presumptuous.
