UNIQUE WORDS game to increase our vocabulary - alphabetical order

Lachrymose- Sad, moving or heart-breaking

Nescience- Lack of knowledge or ignorance

Quire - four sheets of paper or parchment folded to form eight leaves, as in medieval manuscripts.

• any collection of leaves one within another in a manuscript or book.

  "the scribe numbered the quires of his manuscript as well as the leaves"

• 25 (formerly 24) sheets of paper; one twentieth of a ream.

  "the package contained two quires of tracing paper"

sanguine - optimistic or positive, especially in an apparently bad or difficult situation.

Umbrage- Anger from being offended/disrespected

Wheedle - use flattery or coaxing in order to persuade someone to do something or give one something.

"she wheedled her way on to the guest list"

Yttrium: is a chemical element with the symbol Y . It is a silvery-metallic transition metal chemically similar to the lanthanides and has often been classified as a "rare-earth element".