Cosset - (kah suht) - to pamper; treat with great care.
We would love to cosset you at Enrichment night!
Now, if I said that we'd probably have an empty house because everyone would be scared of what's on the program.
Diaphanous - (die aaf uh nuhs) - allowing light to show through; delicate
"My your curtains are so diaphanous!”
Secretly I've used this word for years.
Panegyric - (paan uh jeer ihk) - elaborate praise; formal hymn of praise
The director’s panegyric for the donor who kept his charity going was heart-warming.
I'm not really sure what this sounds like, but it doesn't sound nice.
Legerdemain - (lehj uhr duh mayn) - trickery
The little boy thought his legerdemain was working on his mother, but she in fact knew about every stolen cookie.
What she really wondered was who the heck taught him to say legerdemain...
Contumacious - (kahn tuh may shuhs) - rebellious
The J is a contumacious teenager.
And if he thinks I used big words before, now he’ll really be confused.
And my favorite:
Pulchritude - (puhl kruh tood) - beauty
The mortals gazed in admiration at Venus, stunned by her incredible pulchritude.
Seriously?? Such an ugly word for a thing of beauty? I think this one should be tucked away in the vocab box and left there forever.
