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ITT: Favorite words

Capricious : Given to sudden and unaccountable changes in behavior
I'm not sure why, but I love the word.

>> No.3171616

melancholy sounds nice.

>> No.3171614

Evil, constant, grind and forward are great. I cannot understand why.

>> No.3171620

nausea
erratic
brouillard

>> No.3171624

Diarrhea, i can say it all day and never got bored with it

>> No.3171625

>>3171605
shunt

>> No.3171650

Recapitulate
Reify
Valorize

>> No.3172773

Fecund

>> No.3172786

Awkward.

The "wkw" part is just so... gothic.

>> No.3172798

lugubrious

insalubrious

I'm afraid I'm feeling rather insalubrious at the moment, which I'm assuming is due to the lugubrious weather we've been having as of late.

>> No.3172829

concuspiscence

>> No.3172836

>>3172829
I mean concupiscence
I always fuck up with long words

>> No.3172846

Saturnalian

I like the sound and also the roman origin/vibe

>> No.3172847

Indulge, when you say it, it feels likes its definition.

>inb4 cellar door

>> No.3172849

nigger

>> No.3172848

all of them.
(to be serious, no particular favorite, here, though i've always liked the sound of latin and russian.)

edit: my only hated word is 'captcha.'

>> No.3172860

intrinsic
sandy
avaricious
bad
ought
always
paper
object
entirely
should -- especially with negatives; "it should, but it doesn't" is one of my favourite phrases. Speaking of which, I think a favourite phrase thread would be more interesting than favourite words.

>> No.3172864

Interesting how your favorite words are nearly all French cognate words.

>> No.3172874

>>3172864
germanic languages are pig disgusting though it's not surprising most favour the romance master race

>> No.3172893

pariah

>> No.3172898 [DELETED] 

Thighs


Just say it. You know you love it.

>> No.3172904

Pernicious
Capricious
Vicissitude
Ambivalent
Avaricious
Punctilious
Experiential
Nigger

>> No.3173028

Prometheus.

>> No.3173064

Sullen
Very cool word right there, very cool.

>> No.3173069

Ersatz

>> No.3173072

gerrymandering
kinetic
gerund

>> No.3173081

>>3173028
I enjoy the term Promethean along with stories that could be labeled as being such.

>> No.3173111 [DELETED] 

Indeed. Rolls well off the tongue, plus in myself immediately inspires thoughts of heroism, revolution and mythos.

>> No.3173112

>>3173081
Frankenstein may haps?

>> No.3173122

>>3173081
Indeed. Rolls well off the tongue, plus in myself immediately inspires thoughts of heroism, revolution and mythos.

>> No.3173145

>>3173112
Yes. As well as The Invisible Man, The Time Machine, and Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The idea of pushing beyond the boundaries of man through science was something that really struck my imagination and got me to read more as a child.

>> No.3173148

Proselytism
Ultimately
Anagogically

Exegesis

>> No.3173150

>>3171605
Oh man, other than capricious, I would have to say...
Rød; hebephrenic; pneumatic; Kalaallisuut. viking; nauseam.
Best words.

>> No.3173242

melody
fellowship
truth
justice
paradise

>> No.3173350

absurd
apt
barbarous
bask
brooding
cacophony
catharsis
daunting
delicate
discern
divulge
droll
ebb
glean
lacking
lofty
melancholy
mettle
morose
nostalgia
ominous
pensive
solace
smouldering
tepid
trite
wistful
withered
yearn
zenith

I love most of these words because certain sounds are appropriate to the concept:
baSK, the end of the word smoothly drops you down into a liquid substance.
DEL-I-CATE -- your mouth tip-toes over the word so as not to break or disturb it.
lOFTy -- like soft, any -oft sound, is like an upward release.
sMOULDering -- the word crumbles into ash as you say it.

And some I just really like the concept: melancholia, nostalgia, solace, catharsis.

>> No.3173354

tintinnabulation

>> No.3173411

Syphilis
Frenetic

>> No.3173418

>>3173354
>>3173148
you are both very cool dudes.
I've learned something new.

>> No.3173420

scintillate
it's the coolest word imo

>> No.3173428

jejune
lush/hush
meander
callipygian
flaneur
maudlin

>> No.3173432

>>3173350
moaaaar edgy words like these.

>> No.3173464

naïve

That i with two dots. What even is that, I've never seen it before, why does only that word have a special i? Who knows, I guess I'm just naïve.

>> No.3173505

>>3173464
It was meant to be spelled as näive, but somehow the three dots morphed into two, who moved into the middle.

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3173538

Cellar door

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I love Arabesque, Phantasmagoria, Tintinnabulation, Nevermore, and Cellardoor.