bathos (en)

(noun) a literary term coined by Alexander Pope to describe to describe amusingly failed attempts at sublimity (an effect of anticlimax created by an unintentional lapse in mood from the sublime to the trivial or ridiculous); adj is "bathetic"

brio (en)

(noun) brilliance, panache, quality of being active or spirited or alive and vigorous

contrapuntal (en)

of or in counterpoint

coterminous (en)

(adjective) having the same or coincident boundaries / (adjective) coextensive in scope or duration

doyenne (en)

(noun) a woman who is the most respected or prominent person in a particular field (feminine version of doyen)

encomium (en)

a speech or piece of writing that praises someone or something highly (plural: encomia). as the adjective encomiastic, means bestowing praise, eulogistic, laudatory

encomium (en)

a speech or piece of writing that praises someone or something highly (plural: encomia). as the adjective encomiastic, means bestowing praise, eulogistic, laudatory

lugubrious (en)

(adjective) mournful / (adjective) exaggeratedly or affectedly mournful / (adjective) dismal

meretricious (en)

(adjective) of or relating to a prostitute; having the nature of prostitution / (adjective) tawdrily and falsely attractive / (adjective) superficially significant; pretentious

somnambular (en)

to walk or perform another act while asleep or in a sleeplike condition

vituperation (en)

(noun) sustained and bitter railing and condemnation; vituperative utterance / (noun) an act or instance of vituperating