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Yo what's the best word

>> No.6828123

Licentousness

>> No.6828133

Scrumtrulescent

>> No.6828139

Callipygian

>> No.6828143

syzygy

>> No.6828145

Elbow

>> No.6828151

>>6826202
Melody

>> No.6828159

>>6826202
I don't know about you, but "sprent" is GOAT for me. It just feels good on the tongue.

>> No.6828161

accreditation

>> No.6828167

love

just kidding it's "aplomb"

>> No.6828171

I've always liked the word "lovely"

>> No.6828176

Cromulent

>> No.6828184

ツンドク or
tsundoku.
It means to buy books and hoard them without ever reading them. I have this problem.

>> No.6828245

>afraid to use the best words in my vocabulary because I'm afraid others will think I'm showing off on purpose (which I am)

how do you deal with this fear /lit/

>> No.6828266

>>6828133
thanks you just reminded me of a comfy word

tumescent

>> No.6828276

>>6826202
Then.

>> No.6828291

>>6826202
definitely not "Yo" fuccboi

>> No.6828295

dim

>> No.6828355

>>6826202

Pyx

>> No.6828376

arachnodactylic

>> No.6828395

>>6828245
ingravescence

>> No.6828403

>>6826202
nigga

>> No.6828407

whence

>> No.6828720

>>6828133
>>6828176
>>6828266
trying

>>6828133
>>6828184
tweecore

>>6828143
>>6828407
vanilla

>>6828145
>>6828151
not trying

>>6828159
>>6828167
bro-tier

>> No.6828752

grace

>> No.6828761

Cockhound

>> No.6828763

>>6828720
>vanilla
wat

>> No.6828768

tane

>> No.6828777

>>6828768
nude

>> No.6828783

>>6828763
the opposite of chocolate

>> No.6828788

Hemorrhage

Mellifluous

Crabapple

Gumption

Detritus

Curtail

Extramundane

Scrumptious!

>> No.6828792

Scrumdiddlyumptious lol :P any other writers workshop folks here

>> No.6828798

I have two favourite words

Genuflect and explicate.

>> No.6828802

Filibuster
Ululation
Curmudgeon
Kaopectate
Yclept
Ossify
Unilaterality
Gentrification
Ramifications
Assiduous
Nulliparous
Demesne
Misanthropic
Acrostics

>> No.6828829

>>6828798

Clearly this is a subliminal advertisement, nice try GE.

>> No.6828839

>>6826202
fecund

>> No.6828849

>>6828720
Elbow is reference to Dennis Hopper you fucking silly man.

Take a hike!

>> No.6828869

>>6826202
Cunt. Cunt is the best word

>> No.6828871

legerdemain
terpischorean
aard

>> No.6828888

Catamite.

>> No.6828940

Subterfuge

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>>6826202

flotilla

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>> No.6830798

Waarachtig.

>> No.6830830

Drought

>> No.6830844

cellar (door)
regime

stole both answers from movies

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D E F E N E S T R A T I O N

>> No.6831639

>>6826202
Insurrection

>> No.6831645

Pain
Love
Hate
Spite
Jealousy
Greed
Sloth

The basics work best

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Lap. As in, "take a lap."

>> No.6831680

>>6831017
In how many languages is defenestration a word?

>> No.6831798

Pedalferrous
Fulvous
Digitate
Ephebe
Hobbesian
Desiccated
Phylacterish
Cardiod
Perfidiously
Halation
Reification
Acutance
Gibbous
Stelliformisim
Osseously
Hirsute

>> No.6832562

>>6826202
gallimaufry

>> No.6832700

>>6826202
Cheekibreekiivdamke

>> No.6832712

>>6826202
Innawoods

>> No.6832816

proturb

>> No.6832829

>>6831680
It's defenestração in Portuguese.

>> No.6832848

>>6831680

In French it's Défenestration.

>> No.6832861

Melancholic

>> No.6832933

Any word that sounds like its meaning.

"split", "flow", "muffled", "feather", "strike"... yeah

In contrast:
"Fast", "burn", "sincere", "tact"

>> No.6832987

>>6826202
niggard

>> No.6833016

>>6832933
in this vein I've always enjoyed 'flicker'

>> No.6833043

>>6832933
bumbling
mumbling
tumbling
numb
thumb

>> No.6833067

>>6833043
I agree with all except "tumbling". Unless you're sent spinning into some abyss by a crashing wave or a drug overdose or something, it sounds too soft for what it describes.

Points for the "umb" theme though