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the other hand, you may simply want new words for language games, or hope to impress friends and family! Whatever the reason, the list below will offer literary equivalents for everyday words (behold for see; lightsome for nimble; dulcify for sweeten), terms relating to Greek mythology (Rhadamanthine, Stygian), and words with unexpected meanings (crapulent, for example).
abode a home
access an outburst of an emotion
adieu goodbye
afar at a distance
apace quickly
argosy a large merchant ship
arrant utter
asunder into pieces
atrabilious melancholy or bad-tempered
aurora the dawn
bard a poet
barque a boat
bedizen dress gaudily
beget produce (a child)
behold see
beseech ask urgently and fervently
bestrew scatter
betake oneself go to
betide happen
betoken be a warning of
blade sword
blithe happy
bosky covered by trees or bushes
brand a sword
brume mist or fog
celerity swiftness
circumvallate surround with a rampart or wall
clarion loud and clear
cleave to stick fast to
cockcrow dawn
coruscate flash or sparkle
crapulent relating to the drinking of alcohol
crescent growing
darkling relating to growing darkness
deep, the the sea
dell a small valley
dingle a deep wooded valley
divers of varying types
Dives a rich man
dolour great sorrow
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