My personal vocabulary builder post
- Pagan - A person who follows a polytheistic or pre-Christian religion
- Philander - flirter
- Virtuoso - dazzlingly skilled
- Prodigious rate - colossal, big
- Insatiable - impossible to satisfy
- Above-board - Without concealment or deception; honest - Their business was open and above board
- Ad nauseam - To a sickening extent - He played the song ad nauseam
- Conceit - feeling of excessive pride, self-love
- Amorous conquest - sexual conquest
- Ambivalence - Mixed feelings or emotions
- Open Sesame - Any very successful means of achieving a result
- Embittered - Cause to be bitter or resentful
- Obnoxious - Causing disapproval or protest, objectionable person
- Morbid - Suggesting an unhealthy mental state, morbid obsession
- Finesse - Subtly skilful handling of a situation
- Fleshpots - lewd entertainment spot
- Merriment - happy
- Convivial gathering - party
- Incredulous - sceptical - Don't sound so incredulous.
- Sobrely - in a way that is serious, sad, and without humour or entertainment: "She has lost one brother already," he said sombrely
- Unfathomable - incapable of being fully explored or understood.