I like lists. A lot. I have lists of quotes, list of books to read, lists of movies to watch, lists of movies to watch again, wish lists, grocery lists, to-do lists, and I’ve decided to add another much needed list to my life: a list of words.
I have kind of always had this list, but it’s never officially been a list until today. I have random words written all over the place to remind myself of how much I like them. But it’s time I make that list official, and what better way to start than by sharing a post on words I really like?
Some of these words I really like the sound or spelling of, while others have interesting, neat, or fun definitions. If I like it for the sound or spelling, I didn’t include the definition, unless I like the definition and the sound.
- Acquiesce
- Altruistic
- Apple-knocker: an ignorant or unsophisticated person
- Blatherskite: a person who talks at great length without making much sense
- Borborygmus: rumbling/gurgling noise in the intestines
- Cacophony: dissonance
- Criticaster: minor or incompetent critic
- Codswallop: nonsense
- Discombobulate: confuse
- Doryphore: pedantic and annoyingly persistent critic of others
- Duckspeak: to quack like a duck, ie. to speak without thinking
- Ephemeral: lasting a very short time; lasting only one day
- Facetious
- Gasconade: extravagant boasting
- Gobemouche: gullible or credulous listener
- Incunabula: books printed before 1501
- Lackadaisical: lacking spirit, life, or zest
- Loquacious: full of excessive talk
- This one I like because it sounds like a compliment.
- Luculent: (of speech and writing) clearly expressed
- Maudlin: drunk enough to be emotionally silly
- Melancholy
- Murmuration: utterance of low continuous sounds; murmuring
- Nomenclature: choosing names
- Obfuscate: throw in shadow
- Paraph: a flourish after a signature
- Petrichor: the pleasant smell after the first rain during a long dry spell
- Phoenitc
- Quintessential: perfectly typical of a particular kind of person or thing
- Serendipity: the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for
- Sesquipedalian: having many syllables
- Superfluous: extra; exceeding what is sufficient
- Sycophant: someone who acts obsequiously towards someone important to gain advantage
- Trepidatious: nervous or uncertain agitation
- Uiquitous: being everywhere at the same time; constantly encountered
- Umbriferous: shady
Image taken from Insider. “12 secret Scrabble strategies that will help you win any game.”
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