✅ Captivated describes having your attention captured and held (a silent, captivated audience).

✅ Spellbound describes being enchanted or fascinated, as if by a spell (I was left spellbound by the beautiful gowns).

✅ Both of these words refer to being fascinated or enchanted by something.

✅ Both also imply being so enchanted that it’s all you can focus on or think about.

✅ A pattern is a decorative design that might appear on wallpaper, housewares, or anything on which a design could be replicated (I bought it because of the vintage pattern).

✅ An arrangement is a set of things that have been arranged or put into a specific order or position (an arrangement of colors or shapes).

✅ A pattern is an arrangement of motifs or elements, and an arrangement can form a pattern or design.

✅ A pattern can also be a consistent arrangement of traits, ideas, or choices (His life followed the usual pattern; She deviated from the pattern of teenage behaviors).

✅ Obscure means to conceal something or make it dark or dim (The low light obscured their faces; She worked hard to obscure her motives).

✅ Eclipse means to hide one thing with something else, such as during a solar eclipse, or to make something seem dim by comparison (The violinist eclipsed everyone’s performance; The moon eclipsed the sun).

✅ Both of these terms mean to conceal something or to make something else seem less bright.