MOLLIFY

verb: to sooth; to calm

PROPITIOUS

adjective: presenting favorable conditions

ARDUOUS

adjective: difficult, challenging

OSTENTATIOUS

adjective: showy; pretentious; intended to attract notice

COLLOQUIAL

adjective: familiar or informal in tone; conversational

NEFARIOUS

adjective: extremely wicked; iniquitous (iniquitous means evil or sinful)

SUBLIME

adjective: elevated or lofty in thought; inspiring awe; supreme, outstanding

ECLECTIC

adjective: selecting or choosing from various sources

PRODIGIOUS

adjective: wonderful or marvelous; extraordinary in size, amount, extent

SUPERCILIOUS

adjective: haughtily disdainful or contemptuous

ALACRITY

noun: lively actions; sprightliness (meaning:animated, vivacious, or gay; lively); eagerness

SUPERFLUOUS

adjective: excessive; more than necessary

AESTHETIC

adjective or noun("an aesthetic; aesthetics"): pertaining to a sense of beauty; idea of what is beautiful at a given time

POIGNANT

(pronounced "poy-nyant")

adjective: affecting or moving the emotions; keen or strong in mental appeal; deep or touching

ANTIPATHY

noun: an object of strong dislike or aversion

REDOLENT

adjective: sweet smelling; suggestive, reminiscent (reminding)

PEREMPTORY

adjective: leaving no opportunity for refusal or denial; imperative; required

QUERULOUS

adjective: full of complaints; complaining; peevish

FACADE

(pronounced "fah-sahd")

noun: front of a building; superficial appearance or illusion of something; mask

INSIDIOUS

adjective: intended to entrap or beguile; stealthily treacherous or deceitful (evilly tricky)

FRACTIOUS

adjective: peevish, irritable, quarrelsome

EXTEMPORE

(pronounced "ex-temp-or-ee")

adjective/adverb: on the spur of the moment; without premeditation or preparation

INEFFABLE

adjective: incapable of being expressed or described; inexpressible; unspeakable

NEBULOUS

adjective: hazy, vague, indistinct or confused

(generally used to describe ideas or more abstract things, not people) 

TRUCULENT

adjective: fierce, cruel; savage

INVIOLATE

adjective: kept sacred or unbroken

(literally, not [to be] violated)

TACIT / TACITURN

adjective: silent, saying nothing; understood without being openly expressed

(un-implied, unexpressed)

SALIENT

adjective: prominent or conspicuous; important, striking, remarkable

GARRULOUS

adjective: excessively talkative in a rambling, roundabout manner; unnecessarily wordy

FORTUITOUS

adjective: happening or produced by chance; accidental; lucky or fortunate

AUSTERE

adjective: grave, solemn, stern; simple, without ornament

URBANE

adjective: reflective elegance, sophistication, especially in expression; suave, cosmopolitan