Wanderlost

As part of one of my New Year’s resolutions - it was to learn new words to add to my vocabulary and I’ve compiled a list thus far (it’s about 350+ words compiled in a list as of original post date [01/12/2016]) of all the words that I found simply and absolutely beautiful, fascinating yet familiar, different (as in, not in the English language; words that have no English translation), colloquial, uncommon, archaic, obsolete - just flat-out distinctive than what we normally use in today’s context and such. 

Abibliophobia (n.) - The fear of running out of reading material.

Abditory (n.) - A place into which you can disappear; a hiding place.

Abendrot (n.) - The color of the sky while the sun is setting.

Accismus (n.) - Feigning disinterest in something while actually desiring it.

Adoxography (n.) - Beautiful writing on a subject of little or no importance.

Agelast (n.) - Someone who never laughs.

Ailurophile (n.) - A cat-lover.

Aleatory (adj.) - Relying on chance or an uncontrolled element in the details of life or in the creation of art.

Alethiology (n.) - The study of truth.

Alexithymia (n.) - Inability to describe emotions verbally.

Ambulant (adj.) - Moving from place to place.

Ambulate (v.) - To walk about or move from place to place.

Anacampserote (n.) - Something that can bring back a lost love.

Anagnorisis (n.) - The critical moment of recognition or discovery.

Anecdoche (n.) - A conversation in which everyone is talking, but nobody is listening.

Anhimmeln (v.) - To be enraptured by someone (literally, as if looking at the sky).

Anoesis (n.) - A state of mind consisting of pure sensation of emotion without cognitive content.

Apanthropinization (n.) - The resignation of human concerns; withdrawal from the world and its problems.

Apodyopsis (n.) - The act of mental undressing someone.

Appetence (n.) - An eager desire, an indistinct inclination; an attraction or a natural bond.

Apricity (n.) - The warmth of the sun in winter.

Arcadian (adj.)- Idyllically innocent; simple and untroubled by fear or worry.

Assemblage (n.) - A gathering.

Asterisms (n.) - “Marking with stars”; a word that gives weight or draws attention to the words that follow; related to asterism, a constellation or a starlike figure of light.

Astrophile (n.) - A person who loves stars, astronomy.

Atelophobia (n.) - The fear of imperfection; the fear of never being good enough.

Athazagoraphobia (n.) - The fear of being forgotten or ignored.

Aubade (n.) - A poem or song greeting the dawn.

Aurora (n.) - Dawn.

Autophile (n.) - A person who loves solitude, being alone.

Autophobia (n.) - The fear of oneself or being alone.

Axiomatic (adj.) - Self-evident; obvious.

Backpfeifengesicht (n.) - A person who needs to be slapped; lit. “a face that needs a fist in it”.

Balter (v.) - To dance gracelessly, without particular art or skill, but perhaps with some enjoyment.

Basorexia (n.) - The overwhelming desire to kiss.

Becoming (adj.) - Attractive.

Bedash (v.) - To dash or spatter something all over.

Beleaguer (v.) - To exhaust with attacks.

Bel-espirt/beaux-esprits (n.) - A person of great wit or intellect.

Billet-doux (n.) - A love letter.

Blatherskite (n.) - A person given to voluble, empty talk.

Bletting (n.) - The ripening of fruit until the desired degree of softness is attained.

Bohemian (n.) - Gypsy, wanderer; a person, musician, artist or writer who lives a free spirited life and believes in truth, freedom, and love.

Boketto (v.) - The act of gazing vacantly into the distance without thinking.

Bolide (n.) - A large, brilliant meteor, especially one that explodes.

Bombinate (v.) - To make a humming or buzzing noise.

Borborygmi (n.) - The rumbling sounds your stomach makes.

Brontide (n.) - The low rumble of distant thunder.

Brood (v.) - To think alone.

Brumous (adj.) - Of grey skies and winter days; filled with heavy clouds or fog; relating to winter or cold, sunless weather.

Bucolic (adj.) - In a lovely rural setting.

Bungalow (n.) - A small, cozy cottage.

Caim (n.) - “Sanctuary”; an invisible circle of protection, drawn around the body with the hand, to remind one of being safe and loved, even in the darkest of times.

Camarilla (n.) - Small group of people with a shared purpose.

Carriwitchet (n.) - A pun or a paradox; a riddling question.

Catharsis (n.) - The purging or release of emotional tensions, especially through kinds of art or music.

Cavil (v.) - To raise irritating and trivial objections; find fault with unnecessarily.

Cavil riscaldati (v.) - lit. “reheated cabbage”; the attempt to revive a long-finished love affair.

Ceraunophile (n.) - A person who loves lightning and thunder.

Charientism (n.) - An artfully veiled insult.

Chatoyant (adj.) - Like a cat’s eye.

Chimerical (adj.) - merely imaginary; fanciful.

Chrysalism (n.) - The amniotic tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm.

Claptrap (n.) - Pretentious but insincere or empty.

Clinomania (n.) - Excessive desire to stay in bed.

Clinophile (n.) - The lover of reclining, lying in bed.

Clinquant (adj.) - glittering; tinsel-like.

Cogitation (n.)  Concerted thought or reflection.

Comely (adj.) - Attractive.

Commuovere (v.) - To stir, to touch, to move to tears.

Conflate (v.) - To blend together.

Consanguinity (n.) - Close relationship or connection.

Contiguous (adj.) - Touching; in contact.

Corrachag-cagail (n.) - Dancing and flickering ember flames.

Crapehanger (n.) - A person who sees the gloomy side of things.

Cynophile (n.) - A person who loves canines; a dog lover.

Cynosure (n.) - A focal point of admiration.

Dactylogram (n.) - A fingerprint.

Dalliance (n.) - A brief love affair.

Dappy (adj.) - Silly, disorganized or lacking concentration.

Deipnosophist (n.) - A person who is an adept conversationalist at the table.

Demesne (n.) - Dominion, territory.

Demure (adj.) - Shy and reserved.

Denouement (n.) - The resolution of a mystery.

Desideratum (n.) - An ardent longing, as for something lost.

Desuetude (n.) - Disuse.

Desultory (adj.) - Slow, sluggish; lacking a plan, purpose or enthusiasm.

Diaphanous (adj.) - Filmy; light, delicate, and translucent.

Dirl (v.) - To thrill, to vibrate, to penetrate; to tremble or quiver.

Dissemble (v.) - Deceive; concealing a feeling, motive or intention.

Dormiveglia (n.) - The space that stretches between sleeping and waking.

Drapetomania (n.) - An overwhelming urge to run away.

Duende (n.) - The mysterious power of art to deeply move a person.

Dulcet (adj.) - Sweet, sugary.

Dulcify (v.) - To make more agreeable; mollify; also, to sweeten.

Ebullience (n.) - Bubbling enthusiasm.

Eccedentesiast (n.) - Someone who only pretends to smile.

Ectopic (adj.) - Occurring in an abnormal position or place; displaced.

Eesome (adj.) - Pleasing to the eye.

Effervescent (adj.) - Bubbly.

Effloresce (v.) - To burst into bloom; blossom.

Efflorescence (v.) - Flowering, blooming.

Eigengrau (n.) - “dark light” or “brain grey”; the color seen by the eye in perfect darkness.

Elision (n.) - Dropping a sound or syllable in a word.

Elixir (n.) - A good potion.

Eloquence (n.) - Beauty and persuasion in speech; the art of using language in an apt, fluent way.

Elysian (adj.) - Beautiful or creative; divinely inspired, peaceful and perfect.

Embrocation (n.) - Rubbing on a lotion.

Emollient (adj.) - A softener.

Énouement (n.) - The bittersweetness of having arrived in the future, seeing how things turn out, but not being able to tell your past self.

Entelechy (n.) - The realization of potential.

Environs (n.) - The surrounding parts or districts, as of a city.

Ephemeral (adj.) - Short-lived.

Epiphany (n.) - A moment of sudden revelation.

Equanimity (n.) - Mental calmness, composure, and evenness of temper, especially in a difficult situation.

Eremophobia (n.) - The deep free of stillness, solitude or deserted places.

Erstwhile (adj.) - At one time, for a time.

Esoteric (adj.) - Intended for or likely to be understood by only a selected few who have special knowledge or interest; private, secret, confidential, belonging to the select few.

Ethereal (adj.) - Gaseous, invisible but detectable; extremely delicate and light in a way that seems too perfect for this world.

Ethos (n.) - The fundamental character or spirit of a culture.

Eudaemonia (n.) - lit. “Human flourishing”; a contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous.

Euneirophrenia (n.) - The peace of mind that comes from having pleasant dreams.

Euphonious (adj.) - pleasing; sweet in sound.

Eunoia (n.) - Beautiful thinking; a well mind.

Eutony (n.) - The pleasantness of a word’s sound.

Evanescent (adj.) - Vanishing quickly, lasting a very short time.

Evocative (adj.) - Suggestive; bringing strong images, memories or feelings to mind.

Exulansis (n.) - The tendency to give up trying to talk about an experience because people are unable to relate to it.

Fallacy (n.) - A deceptive, misleading or false notion, belief, etc.

Felicity (n.) - Pleasantness.

Fernweh (n.) - A crave for travel; being homesick for a place you’ve never been.

Fetching (adj.) - Pretty.

Filipendulous (adj.) - Hanging by a thread.

Feuillemort (n.) - The color of a dying or fading leaf.  

Flâneur (n.) - One who strolls around aimlessly but enjoyably, observing life and its surroundings.

Floccinaucinihilipilification (n.) - The act of deciding that something is useless.

Forbearance (n.) - Withholding response to provocation.

Foofaraw (n.) - A great fuss or disturbance about something very insignificant.

Frisson (n.) - A shiver of pleasure.

Fugacious (adj.) - Fleeting.

Furtive (adj.) - Shifty, sneaky.

Fusty (adj.) - Old-fashioned or out-of-date.

Gallivant (v.) - Go around from one place to another in the pursuit of pleasure or entertainment.

Gambol (v.) - To skip or leap about joyfully.

Garboil (n.) - Confusion.

Gerful (adj.) - Wild and wayward.

Gezellig (adj.) - cozy, nice, inviting, pleasant, comfortable; connoting time spent with loved ones or togetherness after a long separation.

Glamour (n.) - Beauty.

Gleed (n.) - A glowing coal.

Gloaming (n.) - Twilight; dusk.

Gossamer (n.) - The finest piece of thread, a spider’s silk.

Growlery (n) - A place of refuge or sanctuary for use while one is out of sorts or in an ill humor.

Gumesservi (n.) - Moonlight shining on water.

Habseligkeiten (n.) - Things that an adult might find worthless, but that a child regards as treasures.

Halcyon (adj./n.) - Happy, sunny, care-free; denoting a period of time in the past that was idyllically happy and peaceful.

Haimish (adj.) - Homey; cozy and unpretentious.

Hamartia (n.) - A tragic or fatal flaw.

Harbinger (n.) - Messenger with news of the future.

Hidebound (adj.) - Narrow and rigid in opinion; inflexible.

Higgledy-piggledy (adv.) - In a jumbled, confused or disorderly manner; helter-skelter.

Hikikomori (n.) - An adolescent or a young adult who has withdrawn from social life, often obsess with television, internet and video games, and rarely ever leave’s one’s room.

Hiraeth (n.) - A homesickness for a home to which you cannot return, a home which maybe never was; the nostalgia, the yearning, the grief for the lost places of your past.

Hornswoggle (v.) - To swindle, cheat, hoodwink or hoax.

Ikigai (n.) - A reason for being; the thing that gets you up in the morning.

Imbrication (n.) - Overlapping and forming a regular pattern.

Imbroglio (n.) - An altercation or complicated situation.

Imbue (v.) - To infuse, instill.

Immolate (v.) - To sacrifice; kill as a sacrificial victim, especially by burning; to destroy by fire.

Incipient (adj.) - Beginning, in an early stage.

Indwell (v.) - Be permanently present in (someone’s soul or mind)

Ineffable (adj.) - Unutterable, inexpressible.

Ingénue (n.) - A naïve young woman.

Inglenook (n.) - A cozy nook by the hearth.

Insouciance (n.) - Blithe nonchalance.

Inure (v.) - To become jaded.

Irenic (adj.) - Promoting peace.

Jayus (n.) - A joke so poorly told and so unfunny that one cannot help but laugh.

Jouska (n.) - A hypothetical conversation that you compulsively play out in your head.

Kakorrhaphiophobia (n.) - The fear of failure.

Kalopsia (n.) - The delusion of things being more beautiful than they really are.

Kintsukuroi (n)(v. phr.) - “To repair with gold”; the art of repairing pottery with fold or silver lacquer and understanding that the piece is more beautiful for having been broken.

Kittle (adj.) - Difficult to deal with; prone to erratic behavior.

Komorebi (n.) - Sunlight that filters through the leaves of trees.

L’esprit de l’escalier (n.) - lit. “the spirit of the staircase”; the feeling you get after leaving a conversation, when you think of all the things you should have said.

Labyrinthine (adj.) - Twisting and turning.

Lachesism (n.) - The desire to be struck by disaster; to survive a plane crash or to lose everything in a fire.

Lagniappe (n.) - A special kind of gift.

Languor (n.) - Listlessness, inactivity.

Lagom (adj.) - Not too little, not too much; just right.

Lalochezia (n.) - The emotional relief gained from using abusive or profane language.

Lassitude (n.) - Weariness, listlessness.

Lethologica (n.) - When you think of something but the word for it escapes you.

Liberosis (n.) - The desire to care less about things.

Lilt (v.) - To move musically or lively.

Limerence (n.) - The state of being infatuated with another person.

Lissome (adj.) - Slender and graceful.

Lisztomania (n.) - A need to listen to music all the time.

Lithe (adj.) - Slender and flexible.

Logastellus (n.) - A person whose love of words is greater than their knowledge for words.

Logophile (n.) - a person who loves words.

Lorn (adj.) - Lost, ruined or undone.

Louring (adj./v.) - darkened by clouds; looking angry or sullen.

Love (n/v.) - Deep affection.

Lucent (adj.) - Softly bright or radiant.

Malinger (v.) - To pretend illness, especially in order to shrink one’s duty, avoid work, etc.

Mamihlapinatapei (n.) - the wordless, yet meaningful look shared by two people who both desire to initiate something but are both reluctant to start.

Maudlin (adj.) - Foolishly sentimental.

Maw (n.) - The symbolic or theoretical center of a voracious hunger or appetite of any kind.

Meara (n.) - The Irish word for “sea”.

Mellifluous (adj.) - Sweet sounding.

Melomaniac (n.) - One who is passionate about music.

Meraki (v.) - To do something with soul, creativity or love; when you leave a piece of yourself in your work.

Metanoia (n)- The journey of changing ones mind, heart, self or way of life.

Micawber (n.) - An eternal optimist.

Minacious (adj.) - Menacing; threatening.

Mirifica (adj.) - Amazing, wondrous; working wonders.

Misology (n.) - Distrust or hatred of reason or reasoning.

Misonesim (n.) - Hatred or dislike of what is new or represents change.

Mizpan (n.) - The deep emotional bond between people, especially those separated by distance or death.

Moiety (n.) - One of two equal parts; a half; a small part.

Monachopsis (n.) - The subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place.

Mondegreen (n.) - A slip of the ear.

Moonstruck (adj.) - unable to think or act normally, especially because of being in love.

Morosis (n.) - The stupidest of stupidities.

Murmurous (adj.) - Murmuring.

Myötähäpeä (n.) - The feeling of shame you experience on the behalf of another person or a character when they do something stupid or embarrassing.

Natsukashii (adj.) - Of some small thing that brings you suddenly, joyously back to fond memories, not with a wistful longing for what’s past, but with an appreciation of the good times.

Nelipot (n.) - One who walks barefoot

Nemesis (n.) - An unconquerable archenemy.

Nemophilist (n.) - A haunter of the woods; one who love the forest and its beauty and solitude.

Neologize (v.) - To make or use new words or create new meanings for existing words.

Nepenthe (n.) - Something that can make you forget grief or suffering.

Nephelolater (n.) - Somebody who admires the passing clouds.

Niveous (adj.) - Resembling snow.

Nodus Tollens (n.) - The realization that the plot of your life doesn’t make sense to you anymore.

Nostalgia (n.) - A bittersweet longing for things, persons or situations of the past.

Novaturient (adj.) - Desiring or seeking powerful change in one’s life, behavior or situation.

Numinous (adj.) - Describing an experience that makes you fearful yet fascinated, awed yet attracted — the powerful, personal feeling of being overwhelmed and inspired.

Nyctophile (n.) - A person who loves night, darkness.

Nyctophilia (n.) - Love of darkness or night, finding relaxation or comfort in the darkness.

Obfuscate (v.) - To confuse or bewilder; to render obscure, unclear or intelligible; to darken.

Oeillade (n.) - an amorous glance; ogle.

Offing (n.) - The sea between the horizon and the offshore.

Oneirataxia (n.) - The inability to distinguish between fantasy and reality.

Onism (n.) - The frustration of being stuck in just one body, that inhabits only one place at a time.

Onomatopoeia (n.) - A word that sounds like its meaning.

Opia (n.) - The ambiguous intensity of looking someone in the eye, which can feel simultaneously invasive and vulnerable.

Opulent (adj.) - Lush, luxuriant.

Oriflamme (n.) - A symbol or standard that inspires condense, devotion or courage.

Orphic (adj.) - Mysterious and entrancing; beyond ordinary understanding.

Otiose (adj.) - Being at leisure; idle; indolent.

Palimpsest (n.) - A manuscript written over earlier ones.

Panacea (n.) - A solution for all problems.

Pandiculation (n.) - An all-over stretching and yawning, as upon waking or going to bed.

Panoply (n.) - A complete set.

Parageusia (n.) - An abnormal or hallucinatory sense of taste.

Pastiche (n/v.)- An art work combining materials from various sources.

Peart (adj.) - Lively; cheerful.

Penultimate (adj.) - Next to the last.

Penumbra (n.) - A half-shadow.

Peripeteia (n.) - A sudden or unexpected reversal of circumstances; the point of no return.

Persnickety (adj.) - Placing too much emphasis on trivial or minor details; fussy.

Perspicuous (n.) - Clearly expressed or presented; lucid.

Petrichor (n.) - The pleasant smell of earth after rain.

Pettifogging (adj.) - Insignificant; petty.

Phatic (adj.) - Denoting speech used to express or create an atmosphere of shared feeling, goodwill or sociability rather than to convey information.

Philocalist (n.) - A lover of beauty; someone who finds and appreciates beauty in all things.

Philonoist (n.) - One who seeks knowledge.

Philophobia (n.) - The fear of falling in love.

Phosphenes (n.) - The stars and colors you see when you rub your eyes.

Photophile (n.) - A person who loves light.

Pisanthrophobia (n.) - Fear of trusting people due to past experiences with relationships gone bad.

Pistoriophile (n.) - A lover of baking, baked goods.

Pluvial (adj.) - Of or pertaining to rain; rainy.

Pluviophile (n.) - A lover of rain; someone who finds joy and peace of mind during rainy days.

Pontificate (n.) - To express one’s opinions in a way considered annoyingly pompous or dogmatic; (in the Roman Catholic Church) to officiate as a bishop.

Prate (v.) - To talk excessively and pointlessly.

Propinquity (n.) - An inclination.

Pulchritudinous (adj.) - Physically beautiful; comely.

Pyrrhic (adj.) - Successful with heavy losses.

Quaintrelle (n.) - a woman who emphasizes a life of passion, expressed through personal style, leisurely pastimes, charm, and cultivation of life’s pleasures.

Quaquaversal (adj.) - Moving or happening in every direction instantaneously.

Quatervois (n.) - A crossroads; a critical decision or turn point in one’s life.

Querencia (n.) - A place from which one’s strength is drawn, where one feels at home; the place where you are your most authentic self.

Quiescent (adj.) - a quiet, soft-spoken soul.

Quintessential (adj.)- Most essential.

Quixotic (adj.) - Extravagantly chivalrous or romantic.

Raconteur (n.) - one who excels in story-telling.

Raison d'être (n.) - a reason for existing.

Ravel (v) - To knit or unknit; confuse or complicate.

Razz (v.) - To deride; make fun of; tease.

Redamancy (n.) - act of loving in return.

Redolent (adj.) - Fragrant.

Retrophile (n.) - A lover of past eras and objects.

Retrouvaille (n.) - The joy of meeting or finding someone again after a long separation; rediscovery.

Rimjhim (n.) - A light, tapping sound produced by the series of raindrops rapidly falling and hitting onto a surface.

Riparian (adj.) - By the bank of a stream.

Ripple (n.) - A very small wave.

Rubatosis (n.) - The unsettling awareness of your own heartbeat.

Rubricate (v.) - To mark or color with red.

Rückkehrunruhe (n.) - The feeling of returning home after an immersive trip only to find it fading rapidly from your awareness.

Rusticate (v.) - To go to the country.

Sangfroid (n.) - Coolness of mind; calmness; composure.

Sapiosexual (n.) - A person who is sexually attracted to intelligence in others.

Sciamachy (n.) - An act or instance of fighting a shadow or an imaginary enemy.

Scintilla (n.) - A tiny, brilliant flash or spark; a small thing; a barely-visible trace.

Scintillate (v.) - To emit sparks; to twinkle, as the stars.

Scofflaw (n.) - A person who flouts the law, especially one who fails to pay fines owned.

Sehnsucht (n.) - “the inconsolable longing in the human heart for we know not what”; a yearning for a far, familiar, non-earthly land one can identify as one’s home.

Selcouth (adj.) - Unfamiliar, rare, strange, and yet marvelous

Selenophile (n.) - A person who loves the moon.

Sempiternal (adj.) - Everlasting; eternal.

Seraglio (n.) - Rich, luxurious oriental palace or harem.

Serendipity (n.) - Finding something nice while looking for something else; finding something good without looking for it.

Shtick (n.) - One’s special interest, talent, etc.

Sillage (n.) - The scent that lingers in air, the trail left in water, the impression made in space after something or someone has been and gone; the trace of someone’s perfume.

Sirimiri (n.) - A light rain, a fine drizzle.

Slake (v.) - To allay (thirst, desire, wrath, etc.) by satisfying.

Smultronställe (n.) - lit. “place of wild strawberries”; a special place discovered, treasured, returned to for solace and relaxation; a personal idyll free from stress or sadness.

Sobremesa (n.) - The time spent around the table after lunch or dinner, talking to the people you shared the meal with; time to digest and savor both food and friendship.

Soigné (adj.) - Possessing an aura of sophistication in dress, manner or design; presented or prepared with an elegance attained through care for the finer details.

Solivagant (adj.) - Wandering alone.

Sophrosyne (n.) - A healthy state of mind, characterized by self-control, moderation, and a deep awareness of one’s true self, and resulting in true happiness.

Sortable (adj.) - A person you can take anywhere without fear of being embarrassed.

Sough (n./v.) - The gentle, soothing murmur of wind or water; to moan, to rustle, to sigh.

Squib (n.) - A short and witty or sarcastic saying or writing.

Stigmatophile (n.) - a person who loves tattoos and/or piercings.

Summery (adj.) - Light, delicate or warm and sunny.

Sumptuous (adj.) - Lush, luxurious.

Superfluous (adj.) - More than enough; unnecessary.

Surreptitious (adj.) - Secretive, sneaky.

Susquehanna (n.) - A river in Pennsylvania.

Susurrant (adj.) - Softly murmuring; whispering.

Susurrous (adj.) - Whispering, hissing or rustling sound.

Syzygy (n.) - An alignment of three celestial objects, as the sun, the earth, and the moon.

Talisman (n.) - A good luck charm.

Tarantism (n.) - Overcoming melancholy by dancing; the uncontrollable urge to dance.

Thalassophile (n.) - A person who loves the sea and/or ocean.

Thinking (n.) - The talking of the soul with itself.

Tintinnabulation (n.) - Tinkling; the sound “that so musically wells from the bells, bells, bells, bells”; the sound that lingers after a bell has been struck.

Thorpe (n.) - A man who is desperately in love with a woman, but cannot admit his feelings or approach her.

Toothsome (adj.) - Pleasing to the taste; palatable.

Trenchant (adj.) - Vigorous or incisive in expression or style.

Transpontine (adj.) - Across or beyond a bridge.

Trouvaille (n.) - Something lovely discovered by chance; a windfall.

Tsundoku (n.) - The act of buying a book and leaving it unread, often piled together with other unread books.

Tumultuary (adj.) - Confused; disorderly; haphazard.

Ugsome (adj.) - Horrid; loathsome.

Umbreiferious (adj.) - Casting or making shade.

Untoward (adj.) - Unseemly, inappropriate.

Vellichor (n.) - The strange wistfulness of used bookshops.

Vestigial (adj.) - In trace amounts.

Viridescent (adj.) - Slightly green; greenish.

Vorfreude (n.) - The joyful, intense anticipation that comes from imagining future pleasures.

Wafture (n.) - Waving.

Wallflower (n.) - A person who because of shyness, unpopularity or lack of a partner, remains at the side at a part or dance; any person that remains on or has been forced to the sidelines of any activity.

Wherewithal (n.) - The means.

Williwaw (n.) - A violent squall that blows in near-polar latitudes.

Wisenheimer (n.) - A wisecrack or smart aleck.

Withershins (adv.) - Counterclockwise; in a direction contrary to the natural one.

Woebegone (adj.) - Sorrowful, downcast.

Ya’aburnee (n.) - lit “you bury me”; a declaration of one’s hope that they’ll die before another person because of how difficult it would be to live without them.

Yūgen (n.) - An awareness of the universe that triggers emotional responses too deep and mysterious for words.

I’m going to do my best to update this as best as I can for the rest of the year and use these words in daily conversations and my vernacular in general. They’ll be mainly used for when I reflect back on things (aka colloquies from the balcony) and for my daily journal entries for this page.

Enjoy!