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Elysium \ih-LIH-zee-um; ih-LIH-zhee-um; \, noun:1. A dwelling place assigned to happy souls after death; the seat of future happiness; Paradise.2. Hence, any place or condition of ideal bliss or complete happiness.
Words To Know
coxcomb: a vain, showy fellow.
chicanery: the use of trickery to deceive.
habitué: one who habitually frequents a place.
pellucid: transparent, clear; easily understandable.
buss: kiss.
factitious: artificial; sham; not natural.
profligate: dissipated; dissolute.
bedaub: to besmear or soil.
bifurcate: to divide into two branches.
contumacious: obstinate; stubbornly disobedient.
firmament: the sky or heavens.
arcane: understood by only a few.
perfunctory: performed mechanically.
temerity: unreasonable contempt of danger.
superannuated: discharged or disqualified on account of old age.
egregious: outrageously bad.
tutelary: guardian; protecting.
condign: deserved; adequate.
lambent: playing on the surface; flickering.
confabulation: familiar talk; also, a plausible but imagined memory.
expiate: to make amends for.
somniferous: causing or inducing sleep.
aubade: a song greeting the dawn.
cogitate: consider carefully and deeply; ponder.
persiflage: frivolous or bantering talk.
obfuscate: to darken; to obscure.
calumny: malicious misrepresentation; slander.
ablution: the washing of the body, or some part of it.
undulate: to move in waves.
cosset: to pamper.