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Tributary
A river or stream that flows into a larger river or lake.
Somnolent
Inclined to or heavy with sleep.
Voluble
Characterized by ready or rapid speech.
Inexplicably
Incapable of being explained, interpreted, or accounted for.
Immanent
Being within the limits of possible experience or knowledge.
Melancholy
Causing or tending to cause sadness or depression of mind or spirit.
Transient
A guest or boarder who stays only briefly.
Facade
A false, superficial, or artificial appearance or effect.
Optimist
A person who is inclined to be hopeful and to expect good outcomes.
Superfluous
Exceeding what is sufficient or necessary.
Supposition
An interpretation of a practical situation or condition taken as the ground for action.
Nonchalant
Having an air of easy unconcern or indifference.
Suburb
An outlying part of a city or town.
Jetty
A structure extended into a sea, lake, or river to influence the current or tide or to protect a harbor.
Caesura
A usually rhetorical break in the flow of sound in the middle of a line of verse.
Euphony
Pleasing or sweet sound.
Enjambment
The running over of a sentence from one verse or couplet into another so that closely related words fall in different lines.
Juxtaposition
The act or an instance of placing two or more things side by side often to compare or contrast or to create an interesting effect.
Headwater
The source of a stream.
Archaic
Of, relating to, or characteristic of an earlier or more antiquated time.
Enmity
Mutual hatred or ill will.
Solstice
Either of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21.
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