keenness and depth of perception, discernment, or discrimination especially in practical matters.
Adulation
extreme or excessive admiration or flattery.
Aeonian
lasting for an immeasurably or indefinitely long period of time.
Aesthetic
pleasing in appearance, attractive.
Alacrity
lively, cheerful and eager behavior.
Alluring
having a strongly attractive or enticing quality.
Amative
relating to or indicative of love.
Amiable
friendly, sociable, and generally agreeable.
Amorous
the act of being in love.
Aplomb
complete and confident composure or self-assurance.
Aptitude
talent or natural ability.
Argle-bargle
noisy arguing.
Assiduity
dedication, diligence and great focus.
Astute
having or showing shrewdness and an ability to notice and understand things clearly, mentally sharp.
Auspicious
showing or suggesting that future success is likely.
Balderdash
absurd or nonsensical talk.
Baloney
nonsense or foolishness.
Bellwether
one that takes the lead or initiative, trendsetter.
Besottedness
blindly or utterly infatuated.
Bespoke
custom-made.
Bibble
to drink or eat noisily.
Blatherskite
a person who talks at length without making sense.
Bloviate
to discourse pompously at length.
Bloviate
to speak or write in a showy, grandiose way.
Bloviate
to speak pompously or at length.
Boondoggle
work that you do just so that you look busy, but it isn't actually useful.
Borborygmus
the sound your stomach makes when hungry.
Brobdingnagian
marked by tremendous size.
Brouhaha
noisy excitement or reaction.
Bumbershoot
umbrella.
Bumfuzzle
to confuse or fluster.
Cacophony
a loud, obnoxious blend of sounds.
Cahoots
secret collaboration.
Candor
free from prejudice or malice, honest, sincere.
Canny
clever, shrewd.
Canonize
to treat as illustrious, preeminent, or sacred.
Canoodle
to engage in amorous embracing, caressing, and kissing.
Cantankerous
bad-tempered or grumpy.
Cattywampus
askew or awry.
Cimmerian
very dark or gloomy.
Circumlocution
the use of an unnecessarily large number of words to express an idea.
Codswallop
nonsense.
Collywobbles
butterflies in the stomach; nervousness.
Comprehend
to grasp the nature, significance, or meaning of.
Confluence
used when discussing a meeting of minds, a group of ideas, or a coming together of diverse people for a gathering.
Coruscate
to be brilliant or showy in technique or style.
Crapulous
feeling ill due to excessive eating or drinking.
Curmudgeon
a bad-tempered person.
Debase
to lower in status, esteem, quality, or character.
Defenestration
to throw someone or something out a window.
Deferential
showing or expressing respect and high regard due a superior or an elder.
Delirium
a state of incoherent thought prone to hallucinations and delusions.
Demented
of unsound mental facilities.
Despondent
feeling or showing extreme discouragement, dejection (lowness of spirits), or depression.
Devotion
earnest attachment to a cause, person, etc.
Diatribe
nasty (and usually lengthy) tirade, whether spoken or written.
Diligent
characterized by steady, earnest, and energetic effort.
Dillydally
to waste time through indecision.
Diminutive
a word or name usually indicating small size.
Discombobulate
to confuse (someone).
Discombobulate
to confuse someone.
Donnybrook
a heated argument or fight.
Doohickey
an unnamed gadget or item.
Doozy
something outstanding or unique.
Doppelgänger
someone's exact double.
Dulciloquent
speaking sweetly or gently.
Ebullience
the quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts or feelings.
Ebullient
bubbly enthusiasm or excitement.
Effervescent
having the property of forming bubbles.
Eloquent
marked by forceful and fluent expression (having a way with words).
Elucidate
to explain very clearly.
Endearment
a word or an act (such as a caress) expressing affection.
Enlightened
freed from ignorance and misinformation.
Ennui
a feeling of weariness and dissatisfaction, boredom.
Ephemeral
lasting a very short time.
Equitable
a fair division between all parties.
Erudite
having or showing knowledge that is gained by studying.
Evenfall
the beginning of evening, dusk.
Exquisite
pleasing through beauty, fitness, or perfection.
Extol
to give high praise.
Facetiously
joking or jesting, often inappropriately.
Fastidious
showing or demanding excessive delicacy or care.
Firkin
a small wooden cask or container.
Flabbergast
to overwhelm with shock, surprise, or wonder.
Flabbergasted
shocked or astonished
Flibbertigibbet
a frivolous or excessively talkative person.
Floccinaucinihilipilification
the act or habit of assessing something as worthless.
Flub
to stuff something up.
Flummox
to perplex someone greatly.
Folderol
trivial or nonsensical fuss.
Foofaraw
excessive fuss or attention.
Fortnight
a period of 14 days.
Fuddy-duddy
a person who is old-fashioned or fussy.
Gallivant
to travel or roam about for pleasure.
Gardyloo
warning shouted before throwing water from above.
Gasconade
to brag or boast.
Gazump
to cheat or outbid at the last minute.
Gobbemouche
a credulous or gullible person.
Gobbledygook
meaningless language or jargon.
Gongoozle
to stare idly at something.
Granular
finely detailed. Can also help describe a meticulous level of detail in your own work, thinking, or planning.
Gratuitous
unnecessary, uncalled-for.
Gregarious
tending to associate with others of one's kind, social.
Gubbins
miscellaneous items.
Halcyon
characterized by happiness, great success, and prosperity.
Higgledy-piggledy
in a confused or disorderly manner.
Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobic
someone with a fear of long words.
Hobbledehoy
a clumsy or awkward youth.
Hodgepodge
a confused mixture.
Hornswoggle
to trick or deceive.
Hullabaloo
loud noise or disturbance.
Idiosyncratic
traits that belong to a person’s character.
Immaculate
having or containing no flaw or error.
Impignorate
to pawn or mortgage something.
Incisive
impressively direct and decisive (as in manner or presentation).
Ineffable
incapable of being expressed in words.
Infatuated
filled with or marked by a foolish or extravagant love or admiration.
Ingenious
having or showing an unusual aptitude for discovering, inventing, or contriving.
Insular
characteristic of an isolated people; an island unto itself.
Intrepid
characterized by resolute fearlessness, fortitude, and endurance.
Jabberwocky
meaningless or nonsensical talk.
Jackanapes
a cheeky or impertinent person.
Junoesque
marked by stately beauty.
Kerfuffle
a commotion or fuss.
Kerplunk
a sound of something heavy falling into water.
Klutz
a clumsy person.
Lackadaisical
lacking enthusiasm or effort.
Lambent
softly glowing or flickering.
Latent
present and capable of emerging or developing but not now visible, obvious or active. In other words -- there, but not there.
Lateritious
brick-red in colour.
Lithe
easily bent or flexed.
Lollygag
to spend time aimlessly; idle.
Lucid
comes from the Latin adjective lucidus (shining), a more fancy word to define a person for his intelligent thinking, capability of being understood or comprehended.
Magnanimous
showing or suggesting a lofty, courageous, noble spirit.
Malaise
physical discomfort or a general feeling of being under the weather.
Malarkey
nonsense; insincere talk.
Maxim
a general truth, fundamental principle, or rule of conduct.
Mellifluous
having a smooth rich flow; filled with something (such as honey) that sweetens.
Mellifluous
smooth and nicely flowing like a liquid.
Meticulous
marked by precise attention to every detail.
Modicum
a small portion; a limited quantity.
Mollycoddle
to treat someone indulgently or protectively.
Moxie
determination or nerve.
Muckety-muck
a self-important person.
Myriad
a great number / countless.
Nefarious
flagrantly wicked or criminal.
Nitwit
silly or foolish person.
Noggin
a person's head.
Nuance
a very subtle difference.
Nudiustertian
the day before yesterday.
Obfuscate
to make obscure or unclear.
Obsequious
subservient (useful in an inferior capacity); marked by a fawning attentiveness.
Orate
to speak formally, and/or with passion.
Orgulous
proud.
Orphic
mystic, oracular; fascinating, entrancing.
Oxter
armpit.
Panacea
a remedy for all ills or difficulties.
Pandiculation
stretching oneself and yawning.
Panjandrum
a person who has or claims to have great authority.
Parlance
formal debate or parley.
Pellucid
easily, clearly understandable.
Penchant
a strong and continued inclination.
Penultimate
next to the last thing.
Perceptive
characterized by sympathetic understanding or insight.
Persnickety
overly particular about minor details.
Perspicacious
of acute mental vision or discernment.
Perusal
studying with the intent to memorize.
Pervicacious
very obstinate, unyielding, willful.
Petrichor
the pleasant smell after rain.
Phantasmagorical
dreamlike and ethereal, often lacking coherent lucidity.
Phenomenal
highly extraordinary, exceptional, remarkable.
Piffle
trivial nonsense.
Pithy
having substance and point, being brief, but very efficient.
Plethora
an abundance or extreme excess.
Pogonotrophy
the act of cultivating a beard.
Poppycock
nonsense or foolish talk.
Predilection
an established preference or bias.
Prodigious
causing amazement or wonder.
Pulchritudinous
physically beautiful.
Pusillanimous
lacking courage and resolution.
Quibble
a minor and usually largely insignificant criticism.
Quiddity
whatever makes something the type that it is; the essence.
Quintessential
the perfect example of something.
Quire
two dozen sheets of paper.
Quixotic
caught up in grandiose ideas or goals that are beyond realistics or practicality.
Rambunctious
to be boisterous, destructive, and disruptive.
Ravishing
unusually attractive, pleasing, or striking.
Repertoire
a person’s list of talents and skills; a list or supply of dramas, operas, pieces, or parts that a company or person is prepared to perform.
Repudiate
to reject or refuse to recognize as valid.
Resplendent
shining brilliantly, characterized by a glowing splendor.
Resplendent
to be dazzling and visually appealing.
Reverence
honor or respect felt or shown, especially profound adoring awed respect.
Righteous
acting in accord with divine or moral law, free from guilt or sin.
Rigmarole
complicated procedure or nonsense.
Rococo
an artistic style especially of the 18th century characterized by fanciful curved asymmetrical forms and elaborate ornamentation.
Salient
something that stands out and is obvious.
Salopettes
waterproof trousers used in skiing.
Schadenfreude
pleasure derived from others' misfortunes.
Scintillating
brilliantly lively, stimulating, or witty.
Scuttlebutt
rumor or gossip.
Selcouth
unusual, strange.
Sensational
exceedingly or unexpectedly excellent or great.
Sesquipedalian
loving of long words.
Shenanigans
playful mischief or trickery.
Shilly-shally
to hesitate or be indecisive.
Sialoquent
spitting excessively when speaking.
Skedaddle
to depart quickly.
Skullduggery
trickery or deceitful behavior.
Snickersnee
a large knife.
Snollygoster
a clever, unscrupulous person.
Snuggery
a cozy or comfortable place.
Sockdolager
a decisive blow or an exceptional person or thing.
Splendiferous
extraordinarily or showily impressive.
Staid
marked by settled sedateness and often prim self-restraint.
Statuesque
resembling a statue especially in dignity, shapeliness, or stillness.
Studious
character trait involving diligent study.
Stupendous
causing astonishment or wonder, marvelous.
Substantiate
to give facts to support a claim.
Surfeit
the quality of overabundance.
Sycophant
a self-seeking flatterer.
Taciturn
temperamentally disinclined (unwilling because of mild dislike or disapproval) to talk.
Taradiddle
trivial lie or nonsense.
Tatterdemalion
person dressed in ragged clothing.
Tenderness
a tender quality or condition, such as gentleness and affection.
Thingamajig
something whose name is forgotten.
Tintinnabulation
the ringing or sounding of bells.
Transcendent
extending or lying beyond the limits of ordinary experience, being beyond comprehension.
Troglodyte
a person who lives alone, hermit-like.
Ubiquitous
existing or being everywhere at the same time; constantly encountered.
Ultracrepidarian
one who speaks beyond their knowledge.
Umbrage
displeasure, resentment, or anger.
Unparagoned
having no equal; matchless, incomparable.
Usufruct
the legal right of using and enjoying the fruits or profits of something belonging to another.