introversion

17 more words

41. carouse
to engage in a drunken revel; to drink deeply and frequently.

42. homunculus
an artificially made dwarf, supposedly produced in a flask by an alchemist.

43. ouroboros
a circular symbol of a snake or dragon devouring its tail, standing for infinity or wholeness.

44. nincompoop
a fool or simpleton.

45. catharsis
the purging of the emotions or relieving of emotional tensions, esp. through certain kinds of art, as tragedy or music.

46. chiaroscuro
the distribution of light and shade in a picture.

47. vitriol
oil of vitriol; sulfuric acid. something highly caustic or severe in effect, as criticism.

48. verdigris
a green or bluish patina formed on copper, brass, or bronze surfaces exposed to the atmosphere for long periods of time, consisting principally of basic copper sulfate.

49. psychopomp
a person who conducts spirits or souls to the other world, as Hermes or Charon.

50. legerdemain
sleight of hand. trickery; deception.

51. apotheosis
the elevation or exaltation of a person to the rank of a god.

52. pollyannaish
an excessively or blindly optimistic person.

53. chartreuse
an aromatic liqueur, usually yellow or green, made by the Carthusian monks at Grenoble, France, and, at one time, at Tarragona, Spain.

54. rubicund
red or reddish; ruddy.

55. alcheringa
dreamtime; the ancient time of the creation of all things by sacred ancestors, whose spirits continue into the present, as conceived in the mythology of the Australian Aborigines.

56. Agrippa
63–12 b.c., Roman statesman, general, and engineer: defeated Antony and Cleopatra at Actium.

57. arabesque
a sinuous, spiraling, undulating, or serpentine line or linear motif.