learn twenty new words and use them frequently

Callipygian – having beautifully proportioned buttocks

Flummery – complete nonsense; foolish humbug

Footle – to act or talk in a foolish or silly way; nonsense, foolishness, silliness

Jocose – given to or characterized by joking; jesting; humorous; playful

Whelm – to submerge; engulf; to overcome utterly; overwhelm; to roll or surge over something, as in becoming submerged.

Anserine – resembling a goose, gooselike; stupid, foolish, silly

Intemperance – lack of temperance, as in the indulgence of an appetite, a passion or excessive use of alcoholic beverages

Lilliputian – extremely small, tiny, diminutive; petty, trivial

Phantasmagoria – a shifting series of phantasms, illusions, or deceptive appearances, as in a dream or as created by the imagination; a changing scene made up of many elements; an optical illusion produced by a magic lantern or the like in which figures increase or diminish in size, pass into each other, dissolve, etc.

Riant – laughing, smiling, cheerful, or gay

Complacent – pleased, espescially with oneself or one’s merits, advantages, situation, etc., often without awareness of some potential danger or defect; self-satisfied

Discombobulate – to throw into a state of confusion

Mellifluous – sweetly or smoothly flowing; sweet-sounding

Specious – apparently good or right though lacking real merit; superficially pleasing or plausible

cathartic – adj. Inducing catharsis; purgative.
taught to me by a good friend

bildungsroman – n. A novel whose principal subject is the moral, psychological, and intellectual development of a usually youthful main character.

distichous – adj. Placed in two ranks.

noctilucent – adj. Visible during the short night of the summer.

Clandestine – marked by, held in, or conducted with secrecy

Effervescent – to show liveliness or exhilaration

Languorous – full of or characterized by weakness or weariness of body or mind

Ebullient – overflowing with fervor, enthusiasm, or excitement; high-spirited

Mawkish – characterized by sickly sentimentality; weakly emotional; having a mildly sickening flavor; slightly nauseating

Acquisitive – tending or seeking to acquire and own, often greedily; eager to get wealth, possessions, etc.