Week 8
Sanguine: Cheerfully confident; optimistic.
Alfred's sanguine attitude makes him a lovable fellow because people like an optimistic person.
Elegiac: Of, relating to, or involving elegy or mourning or expressing sorrow for that which is irrecoverably past.
Feliciano adopted an elegiac personality after his dearest childhood friend died in a sudden accident.
Fortuitous: Resulting in good fortune; lucky.
Their meeting had been fortuitous, and Roderich thanked Lady Luck as his wife-to-be walked down the aisle.
Infirmity: The condition of being infirm, often as associated with old age; weakness or frailty.
Arthur's mother's infirmity only made it more difficult to care for her, as she got weaker by the day.
Nuance: A subtle or slight degree of difference, as in meaning, feeling, or tone; a gradation.
As a well-known professional chef, Francis can detect the faintest nuances between different spices in food.
Ostentatious: Characterized by or given to ostentation. See synonyms at showy.*
Francis is also quite ostentatious when it comes to showing off his cooking skills.
Vehement: Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction.
Ludwig vehemently denied Feliciano's request of pasta for breakfast.
A/N: Some notes:
*Bad definition is bad because it uses a form of the word for which we are trying to find the definition within the definition.
I am beyond caring enough to give a proper apology.
~Jel