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What are some of your favorite words? Mine are:

Ubiquitous
Articulate
Bastardized
Cognizant
Inclined
Attest
Affiliate
Proliferation

>> No.6026123

Mind if I ask this here?

I'm trying to think of a word which used to be one of my favorites but it has totally escaped my mind.

Its a medium-long S-word of I think Egyptian or some Ancient origin which is basically a place where dead people go to get ready for burial.

>> No.6026124

euphonious
caerulean
propinquity
serendipitous

>> No.6026129

Lugubrious
Ineffable
Serene
Fathom

>> No.6026144

moment
euphoric
phony
enlightened
intelligence

>> No.6026146

>>6026123
im getting a serious deja-vu from this

>> No.6026161

ostensibly
enigmatic
gestalt
mushroom
extant
magnum opus
marshmallow

and here's one I learned just the other day: flavescent

>> No.6026164

>>6026123
sepulchral?

>> No.6026181

lackadaisical

>> No.6026213

>>6026164
Ah, thanks for that. That's the word I was trying to think of.

>> No.6026225

>>6026124
My name translates to serendipitous in English :)

>> No.6026236

>>6026110
corrugated
finagle
titillating
mangled
devoid
supple

and any other words that are fun to say but might turn up in every-day speech

>> No.6026337

Decorticate

>> No.6026386

to furbish

>> No.6026402

>>6026110
abeyance
alacrity
harangue
eldritch
alcove
bucolic
bivouac
vituperative
superannuated
carapace
clarion
vespertine
firmament
halcyon
moribund
hidebound
obstreperous
perfidious
rigmarole
soporific

>> No.6026405

>>6026161
gestalt is such a cool word.

>> No.6026412

>>6026129
>lugubrious

I love when words just seem to sound like what they mean...this just sounds dismal, woeful, etc.

>> No.6026425

>>6026110
Cromulent, embiggened

>> No.6026437

>>6026412
coy

>> No.6026444

>>6026123
Sepulchre
Sarcophagus

>> No.6026459

>>6026412
Is there a word for words whose phonetic connotations are also its meaning?

>> No.6026467

>>6026129
bitch, I'm morose and lugubrious

>> No.6026490

Aorta

>> No.6026510

>>6026110
Foible
Effervescent
Impervious
Affable
Subtleties

>> No.6026758

>>6026459
onomatopoeia

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>>6026144

underrated post n blessed by the gr8 b8

keep it up m8 n have anudder8 %^)

>> No.6026783

>>6026758
That's not correct

>> No.6026790

Perspicacious
Intuit
Melancholy
Capricious
Propensity
Wont (to use, not for any aesthetic reason)
Mighty

Many others in this thread.

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>>6026771

btw

eleemosynary
haematid
abrogate
nigger
antediluvian
roke
coruscate
corpuscular
osculate
limerence
belletristic

>>6026459

synonym: labialization cuz it rounds out 2 pussy shit :gunny:

>> No.6026796

Sinusoidal
Dendritic

>> No.6026824

velleity
allod
enfeoff
sententious
wont

and a foreign word, mainly for how nice it is to say:

vieillesse

>> No.6026827

>>6026824
oh, and eisegesis

>> No.6026829

Sanction.

The only word in English, that I know of, which serves as its own antonym.

>> No.6026842

this thread reminded me of a word that i can't think of. it means an adherence to older, maybe antiquated way of thinking. i think etymologically it has something to do with words referring to ancestry. anyone know what im thinking of?

>> No.6026862

>>6026842

anachronistic?

>> No.6027249

is

>> No.6027263

Antecedent is a purdy word.

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>>6026124
>serendipitous
Yes. Some of mine:

byzantine
superfluous
catharsis
charnel
oscillation (it's almost erotic in its pronunciation)

>> No.6027300

ITT: purple prose

>> No.6027308

>>6027300
Most of the words here are pretty common; some are just fun to say.

>> No.6027341

ITT: Latin based words

Makes me think of another Latin word Plebeian

Latin is pleb tier.

>> No.6027343

resplendence

>> No.6027346

Thundercunt.