| aesthete |
one who is or professes to be particularly attentive to and appreciative of beauty, especially in the arts. |
| decorum |
properness of behavior, manner, appearance, or the like; dignity; propriety. |
| desirous |
having a wish or a longing for something. |
| empirical |
based on or verifiable by experience or experiment, rather than on or by theory. |
| enumerate |
to name or list one by one. |
| fodder |
feed for farm animals, such as stalks of corn cut and mixed with hay. |
| fulsome |
offensive, especially because of excessiveness or insincerity. |
| hysteria |
in an individual or group, an uncontrollable outburst of fear or other emotions, producing fits of weeping, laughter, irrational behavior, or the like. |
| interplay |
the action or influence of two or more things on each other; reciprocal effect. |
| invoke |
to call out to (a god, muse, or the like) for help, support, protection, or inspiration. |
| luxuriant |
growing thickly and in great numbers; lush. |
| melodrama |
behavior or events, in reality or fiction, with similarly exaggerated features or effects. |
| recast |
to rewrite, reconstruct, or conceive again in a different form. |
| rote |
unthinking or mechanical routine or habit. |
| unexceptionable |
without flaw or fault; beyond objection or criticism. |