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Use this thread to type your favorite words! Latin derivatives have helped me learn all sorts of interesting gems. My favorites: Regicide (the murder of a monarch), quotidian (used to describe something typical or day-to-day), postprandial (after a meal), and librocubicularist (one who reads in bed). What are your favorite words, Admin?
Oh, tough question! Melifluous, . . . I'll have to think about it some more.
Admin
submitted by WritingWarrior
(April 9, 2013 - 6:18 pm)
(April 9, 2013 - 6:18 pm)
One of my favorite words (I've got a list somewhere that I'll try to find) is foofaraw (a great deal of fuss over a small manner; in other words, the making of a mountain out of a molehill). I have many others, but like I said, they're hidden away in a hiding place so good, that I hid them from myself. WritingWarrior, I'll have to remember postprandial and librocubicularist. The latter one definitely applies to me!
I just remembered another of my favorites: tintinnabulation
Admin
(April 9, 2013 - 8:22 pm)
Uhh... some of my favorite words are drub, drubby, drubbish, and completely drubonical, all of which I invented. Hey, we need a separate thread for inventing words! GOOP!
(April 10, 2013 - 3:06 pm)
I've have many favorite words. Here's a couple.
abecedarian: person learning the alphabet
cachinnation: loud, hysterical laughter
honorificabilitudinitatibus: with honor
yclept: called, by the name of
Here is my favorite of the favorites!
zenzizenzizizinzic: a number to the eighth power
(April 10, 2013 - 3:46 pm)
megalomaniac
obdurate
owler
regelated
(April 10, 2013 - 4:38 pm)
Mine's a classic; supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. That and a word I made up; hippopotamistic. I just like it, don't know why.
That, and a second ago, Cappie only said; "CAPTCHA Image". I just hit Preview, and now Cappie says; unbz. United National Bunny Zoo. Weird.
(April 10, 2013 - 5:37 pm)
Anthropomorphization - a representation of an inanimate object or force as a human being
Sesquipedalianism - the oractice of using long words
Scintillating - shiny, sparkly, reflective, incredibly interesting and/or deep
Perchance - maybe
Ardolator - worshipper of bread
Preantepenult - fourth-to-last
Quixotic - taking a romanticized view of something
Panacea - a cure-all, medicinal thing
Somnabulate - sleepwalk
Happify - to make happy
hnoa (jk)
--L
(April 10, 2013 - 5:58 pm)
Sesquipedalianism - the oractice of using long words
Scintillating - shiny, sparkly, reflective, incredibly interesting and/or deep
Perchance - maybe
Ardolator - worshipper of bread
Quixotic - taking a romanticized view of something
Somnabulate - sleepwalk
Happify - to make happy
I've never seen the word ardolator before now. My friend(the one I have a crush on) says "perchance" sometimes. I somnabulate. In Latin we started the mosaic project.
Get out of my head Rihanna(a Rihanna song is stuck in my head)
(April 11, 2013 - 8:40 pm)
There's an issue of Muse from 2009 or something with an article called "Reading the OED". That's where I got that one.
Admin: It was January 2009! Good memory.
(April 12, 2013 - 2:03 pm)
Some more from an earlier favorite words thread I posted on:
-honky-tonky
-conglommeration
-gallaventing
-luminescent
-gullible
-insanity
-tintinabulation (The Admin and I have one in common!)
-billingual
-sparodic
-waxworks
-fiesty
-preposterous
-rue
-muse
-blurb
-savbayon
-plausible
-tutumulous
-antiquity
And volition. Another good one. I also rather like "dodecahedron".
(April 13, 2013 - 1:20 pm)
Elements have lovely names as well! I just now remembered Beryllium, which would make an awesome name. ("Beryll" for short. Now I just have to hunt down an RP I can use that on...)
(April 13, 2013 - 1:25 pm)
Petrichor is the smell of dust after rain. L do you think The Silence are scarier than the Weeping Angels?
(April 16, 2013 - 2:53 am)
They are on similar levels of creepy, as both affect you when you are not looking at them. But I'd say the Silence, because if I said weeping angels were scarier than them, my boggart would be a weeping angel. And whatever takes the form of a weeping angel is a weeping angel, therefore, no Riddikulus to fend it off. So I shall classify the Silence as scarier. I have a pen on me at all times.
(April 21, 2013 - 1:36 pm)
Scintillating, loquacious, flibbertigibbet, clout, tintinnabulation, malignant, pandemonium, the list goes on and on.
(April 19, 2013 - 8:43 am)
Literally, tintinnabulation, fantastic. I'll think of more later
(April 19, 2013 - 4:55 pm)
Also perspicacious, blasphemy, and egregious.
(April 21, 2013 - 5:48 pm)