New Words for August

Propitious = presenting favorable circumstances; likely to result in or show signs or success

Cachet = An indication of approved or superior status

Implacably = incapable of being placated (I may have listed this one before)

Enmity = a state of deep-seated ill-will

Biografiends = James Joyce's word for nosy academics!

Torpor = a state of motor and mental inactivity with a partial suspension of sensibility

Verisimilitude = the appearance of truth; the quality of seeming to be true

Demimondaine = a woman whose sexual promiscuity places her outside respectable society