A growing list of words and phrases that I come across and like. More for me, but you can use it too, non?
Bagatelle: a thing of little importance; a very easy task.
Hagiography: biography that idealizes its subject.
Rigmarole: a long, rambling story or statement. a lengthy and complicated procedure.
Manqué : having failed to become what one might have been; unfulfilled.
Trompe l'oeil: visual illusion in art
Blasé: unimpressed or indifferent to something because one has experienced or seen it so often before.
Oubliette: a secret dungeon with access only through a trapdoor in its ceiling.
Puerile: childishly silly and trivial
Guignol: dramatic entertainment featuring the gruesome or horrible
Sobremesa: the Spanish tradition of relaxing at the table after a heavy meal
Penny wise and pound foolish: Prudent and thrifty with small amounts of money, but wasteful and profligate with large amounts