adjective / as-id / acidic / acidly / acidness / nonacid / preacid (Emotions) a way of speaking that causes irritation or discomfort (Seeing) extremely vibrant, possibly irritating, in color (Smelling) violently pungent odor (Tasting) sour in flavor (Touching) leaving a stain As Harry and Ron rounded the clump of trees behind which Harry had first heard the dragons roar, a witch leapt out from behind them. It was Rita Skeeter. She was wearing acid-green robes today; the Quick-Quotes Quill […]
ambrosial
adjective / am-broh-zhuhl / ambrosialy / ambrosian (Smelling) having a luscious fragrance worthy of the gods; positively divine!(Tasting) extremely pleasant and delicious flavor(Hearing) exceptionally harmonious to the ear Some time later, although Walter couldn’t have guessed how long if he’d been paid to do so, he became aware of a warm, spicy, almost ambrosial smell. Christa Faust (The Zodiac Paradox)
chrysanthemums
a kind of plant in the daisy family with brightly colored flowers that bloom in late summer and fall that can be used in tea : FOUND IN :
grotesque
adjectives / groh-tesk / grotesques / grotesquely / grotesqueness fantasically bizarre If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass. A new world, material without being […]
heath
noun / heeth / heaths a wasteland of poor soil where only heather grows I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth. Emily Brontë (Wuthering Heights)