rah-kon-TOOS -- (n.) A woman strikingly skilled at telling a story. Few words honor that special talent of storytelling. Fewer bother to honor those magnetic...

arr-KAY-dee-un -- (n.) Wonderfully innocent; untroubled by worry or fear. “...she would keep, through all her riper years, the simple and loving heart of her...

REN-ah-sent -- (adj) Rising again into being or vigor. Although used more to describe something that has become popular again, the origins of this word is re...

vess-purr-TEEN (n.) Occurring or flourishing in the evening. It is said that good things come to those who wait -- to a vespertine, that wait means nightfall...

(PAL-ah-din) -- (n.) A heroic figure; a champion, defender, and advocate of a noble cause. An exceptional word referring to exceptional souls. Paladins were ...

sau-DAH-j -- (n.) A profound melancholy for something or someone that is lost. Behold a word of many layers. The Portuguese word "saudade" is that feeling or...

RED-ah-man-SEE -- (n.) The act of loving one who loves in return; a love fully reciprocated. Love ebbs and flows in infinite ways to the song of infinite def...

o-REN-dah -- (n.) The spiritual energy flowing from all things animate and inanimate. Standing in a cathedral to the opening chorus of Bach's St. Matthew Pas...

Uh-LI-fer-us -- (adj.) Having wings. This dashing word comes from England-- technically it's Latin--but it took an 18th century English schoolmaster to, well...

il-LI-zhun -- Divinely inspired, beautiful and peaceful. The phrase "Elysian Fields" or Elysium describes a place or position that one aspires to reach. In G...

MEH-tah-NOY-a — (n.) The journey of changing one's heart, mind, self, or way of life. Deriving from the Greek metanoein meaning 'to change one's mind.' First...