Demesne: a lord’s privately owned manor/section of land
Kaleidoscope: optical item that utilizes mirrors to create interior symmetrical visions
Pastiche: literary patchwork, hodgepodge, collision of genres used to create a new item
Cinquefoil: five-leaved
Daedalian: intelligent, crafty, deft, practical, pertaining to Daedalus
Lixiviation: act of separating soluble from insoluble substances via water or solvent
Pasquinade: public farce, satire, or lampoon
Oubliette: dungeon with only opening at the top
Ephemeral: brief, transient
Eidolon: ghost, specter, revenant, reappearing, continuously visiting or persisting image
Clavilux: machine that generates light via music
Esprit: brio, wit, vivacity
Daphnean: shy
Absinthe: wormwood liquor of a bright-green color
Convalesce: to recover or recuperate
Czigany: gypsy, Hungarian gypsy
Arabesque: ballet twirl, type of artistry involving a continuous, rotating design
Caesious: blue-gray
Isosceles: having two equal sides, of a triangle
Linoleum: type of floor covering
Sisyphean: endless labor, pertaining to Sisyphus
Ophidian: snake-like
Hyacinth: flower
Lullaby: song or tune devised to lull something to sleep
Coelacanth: prehistoric fish still alive today
Labyrinth: maze
Quaquaversal: directed outward from a common center to all points, omnidirectional
Scialytic: dispersing shadows, typically with light
Cerulean: watery blue
Lilliputian: very small
Liaison: illicit sexual relationship, case of contact between two parties, usually a person
Azure: sky-blue
Aesthete: person who appreciates art or beauty
Silver: shimmering gray color, type of metal
Empyreal: related to the empyrean, celestial
Echelon: tier, level, rank in job, formation of soldiers
Conciliabule: secret meeting of conspirators
Dilettante: one who dabbles in an occupation or hobby without serious intent
Soigné: elegant, sophisticated, well-groomed
Glimpse: brief, incomplete view or look, to glance at
Grandeur: splendor, magnificence, quality or state of being grand
Ennui: listlessness, weariness, discontent
Palatial: pertaining to a palace, grandiose, magnificent
Pellucid: translucently clear, limpid
Cenotaph: an unmarked grave
