a list of "beautiful" words for august
to try to include in your next poem/story
Abozzo - a rough sketch or draft (as of a picture or a poem)
Bouleversement - reversal; a violent disturbance
Cachaça - a Brazilian liquor distilled from sugarcane
Cantillation - recitation with musical tones
Doloriferous - obsolete: producing pain
Fantasticate - to make fantastic
Graphospasm - writer's cramp (i.e., a painful spasmodic contraction of muscles of the hand or fingers brought on by excessive writing)
Immarcescible - imperishable, indestructible
Kakidrosis - secretion of sweat of a disagreeable odor
Ligneous - of or resembling wood
Metempsychosis - the passing of the soul at death into another body either human or animal
Nemoricole - inhabiting groves
Optative - expressing desire or wish
Pastourelle - a conventional form of poetic pastoral composed in French during the late middle ages and Renaissance and consisting of a love debate between a knight and a shepherdess
Tramontane - lying on or coming from the other side of a mountain range
Vatic - prophetic, oracular
Wiseacre - one who pretends to knowledge or cleverness
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