Lovely Words

Just my latest collection of word lovelies that struck my fancy when I saw them on the page, so perfectly descriptive and appealingly exact in their sentences...  I let them roll off my tongue several times before adding them to my pretty words list.

showcase
absentia
preternatural
stopgap
directives
charter
structures
damselflies
oddity
wonderment
octave
curlicue
hit the grit
espy
lovelorn
caresome
selfsame
cannonade
assemblage
literati
prismatic
torrent
workaday
ghoulish
cello
pantheon
ascendancy