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Can we have a cool words thread?

>Exsanguination
>Lackadaisical
>Frigorific

anything at all

>> No.6843706

>>6843704
The, Be and To are the most popular ergo most valued. The market has spoken.

>> No.6843707

euphoric

>> No.6843712

>>6843704
anytime my dear anon
>defenestration
>petrichor
>sillage
the classics
>anthropod
>pluraletantum
>perseveration
>nigger
admit it, it rolls off the tongue like you're eating sweet white chocolate. you love to feel yourself say it. nigger.

>> No.6843720

>>6843704
Only familiar with the second one.
>>6843707
Nice strong word.

Tuft
Billeted
Islets

>> No.6843729 [DELETED] 

>>6843720
ohey butterfly. have the anonimen stopped hatespamming you yet?

>> No.6843736

Stigmergy

>> No.6843742

Moribund
Verisimilitude
Eldritch
Literarily

>> No.6843770

word of all time

>> No.6843788

niggardly

>> No.6843793

>>6843729
They don't have my email.

>>6843742
Maury Bund

>> No.6843806

Quincunx

>> No.6843815

>>6843806
I cannot hear or read this word without thinking of The Five Orange Pips and whoeveritwas explaining that the Ku Klux Klan took its name from the sound of a shotgun being cocked, because quincunx is totally a better way to phoneticize that.

>> No.6843821

I'm fond of many Yiddish words.

>> No.6843834 [DELETED] 

>>6843793
i was referring to the bitch threads yday, which, wtf was that even about?
and why are you on here being un-anonimous (to some extent) anyway? i've always wondered.

>> No.6843867 [DELETED] 

>>6843834
I've been anonymous on 4chins for (still) longer than I've been this unintentional insect, and lemme tel ya, it was pretty lonely. I had some nice conversations, argued with idiots, learned from some, won "internets", but it was so isolating. I put this garble on (from an old Zalgo thread) and it was mainly for me. I'm not some "tripfag" Tripfags are anonymous trolls playing a part. I was always just being myself. It does make a difference, however slight.
But, I'm in the process of leaving anyway. Little tired of it all.

>> No.6843873

>>6843867
i like you, anonymous man-butterfly

>> No.6843886

Heretofore
Wallow
Dead
Potentiation
Slash
Frivolous
Statecraft
Imperialize

>> No.6843896

>>6843867
Most tripfags are like you, tripfag.

But that's okay.

>> No.6843905

>>6843873
Are you from s4s?

>> No.6843910

>>6843905
no i've never posted there and i lurked only once when i decided to survey all of the boards on 4chan one day
why do you ask?

>> No.6843917

>>6843910
Saying "man-butterfly" is kind of a giveaway, tbh.

>> No.6843919

>>6843917
maybe not as much of a giveaway as you'd think being that i've never posted there

>> No.6843921

>>6843706
fuck off you Capitalist pig

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6843930

>>6843919
So what do you think of Tina Fey's portrayal of you?

And What is your favourite curse word?

>> No.6843933

Does anyone know the word for backlog of books? I think it was chinese

>> No.6843934

>>6843930
are you trying to expose me with a reference because someone who gets it could just as easily feign ignorance

gyp if that counts but i know it's a subtle one

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6843936

>>6843933

>> No.6843937

>>6843704
Mellifluous

>>6843910
I think I was browsing /a/ on that very same day
I should try that tomorrow, just for kicks. How did you feel at the end of the 4chan tour?

>> No.6843939

>>6843937
i post on /a/ infrequently
it was a few months ago so i don't remember how i felt

>> No.6843972

Echolalia

>> No.6843988

>>6843921
>doesn't enjoy the refreshing taste of The
>doesn't pop open a Be after work
>doesn't microwave a packet of To and relax with the whole family

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>>6843867
the less tripfaggery the better, good riddance

>> No.6844146

>>6844144
Why did these hambeasts in particular gain such traction in /lit/?

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6844147

>>6844146
Most of those posts are me friend

>> No.6844209

>>6843704
Can we just appreciate normal words that sound amazing as well?

I'll start:
Crescent
Tomato

>> No.6844216

>>6843704
gestalt

>> No.6844238

>>6843704
There's a certain stridency to this thread. Louche. Frankly, I'm apoplectic.

>> No.6844479

>>6843704
alliaphage: garlic-eater

>> No.6844481

Bulbous Cuck Jovey chuckled at John's Pony

>> No.6844512

Turpitude
Bellicose
Catatonic
Syzygy

>> No.6844538
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6844538

ridiculation
smartality
stupidality
geniusizationing

>> No.6844555

Susurrus is my favorite

>> No.6844558

>>6843886

Are words like heretofore, forthwith, thenceforth, inasmuch, etc. a shade of English's Germanic heritage?

>> No.6844566

>>6843704
Repeat

>> No.6844570

>>6844538
the euphoria, holy shit

>> No.6844581

>>6843921
quisling

>> No.6844706

>>6843821
such as

>> No.6844713

>>6843704
you must be bored L ;)

>> No.6844723

grace

finesse

bloom

>> No.6844734

APRICITY
The warmth of the sun in winter.

TREPPENWITZ
"staircase joke", when you think of a comeback too late, on the stairway out.

KAIROS
The most opportune moment to act.

>> No.6844834

>>6844147
Such a valued member of the community. So patrich

>> No.6845290
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6845290

I made a list of words I didn't know reading Blood Meridian, plus some DFW short stories and other essays.

A lot of them struck me for being really cool, especially the outdated ones McCarthy uses to give the desert a really grand feeling.

>> No.6845305

>>6845290
How the fuck does one not know most of those words?

>gradation
>partisan
>postulate
and so on

(Then again, if I was to make a list like that, you'd think the same)

>> No.6845341
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6845341

Pell-mell
Foible
Paroxysm
Cormorant
Vicissitude
Ostentation
Deluge
Idiosyncrasy
Perihelion
Aphelion
Ebullition
Hoarfrost

pls rate my list of words

>> No.6845356

Apartheid
I've always though the word is pleasant to say and spell.

>> No.6845566

>>6845305
I still included a word if I didn't have a clear concise definition in my head.

For those I had an intuitive idea, but I couldn't provide a dictionary definition.

>> No.6845581

>>6844538
Is that a cane?

>> No.6845589

Reminder that you should use simple adjectives in your writing, and use complex or unique nouns and sparingly use complex or unique verbs. If you use complex adjectives then you are an amateur writer.

>> No.6845594

>>6844538
>wearing hat indoors
God damn poser

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>>6843704
>exsanguination
I was in the national finals of the Readers Digest Word Power Challenge way back in 2007, the last year it was held. I'd estimate that 20% of the finalists put down "exsanguinate" or "exsanguination" as their favorite word.

We were all in middle school so it's just a normal amount of edge. Also, if the chill football player from Virginia is ITT, hit me up.

>> No.6845609

>>6844538
>top hat
>cane
>quill pen

Jesus.

>> No.6845724

>floccinaucinihilipilification

the action or habit of estimating something as worthless

>> No.6845957
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6845957

>>6844834
>I judge people based on the quality of their posts to 4chan.org

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6845969

>>6845341
>no cyclized benzylisoquinoline
stay troglodyte friend!

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6846003

Puce

>> No.6846105
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6846105

>>6845290
>didn't know Byzantine
Life is truly suffering.

>>6845341
>Paroxysm
>Idiosyncracy
>Hoarfrost
10/10

Some of my own favorites. I'm noticing a general trend ITT of Greek roots and silent letters:

>Nitroglycerine
>Wraith
>Carbine
>Chartreuse
>Viridian
>Quagmire
>Timber
>Turquoise
>Fission
>Apocrypha
>Narcotic
>Centrifuge
>Roentgen
>Psychopomp
>Querulous
>Saccharine

Got to hand it to STEMbots for inventing such phonaesthetically pleasing terms

>> No.6846138

Filibuster
Ululation
Curmudgeon
Kaopectate
Yclept
Ossify
Unilaterality
Gentrification
Ramshackle
Assiduous
Nulliparous
Demesne
Multitudinous
Acrostics

>> No.6846143

MOD
ERA
TED

>> No.6846692

Reductio ad absurdum
Phantasmagorical

>> No.6847016

>>6845356
>Apartheid

Let's hope you're pronouncing it correctly. (The t and h are separate.)

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6847860

>>6843704
CALLYPEGIAN

>gotten me laid thrice

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6847871

>>6845957
>I judge people based on the quality of their posts to 4chan.org
>the less tripfaggery the better, good riddance

Well you sure judge people on appearances.

>> No.6847878

>>6847860
>gotten me laid thrice
It was more likely the forward manner, but yeah, cute word. I have a folder with that name

>> No.6847922

>>6847860
>CALLYPEGIAN

Also callipygous. Also steatopygous.

>> No.6848012

>>6843936
Fuck this book, my sister bought it and I think she's going to get one of the words in it tattood. Fucking shit. What the fuck. Why would anyone ever...

>>6844209
Fasten is one of my favorite words

>> No.6848016

>>6847871
Look guys, I can be a trip fag too!

>> No.6848017

>>6845290
>>6845305
Yeah but "firmament"? Havent you ever read the bible you plebian?

>modality
>byzantine

man

>> No.6848021

>>6846105
I've been trying to use "saccharine" in my lastest story without sounding like a dicksucking faggot, but it's almost impossible.

>> No.6848030

>>6848012
>Why would anyone ever...
Get a tattoo at all? I donno.

>>6848016
Hi Sweater! *Waves*

>> No.6848035

>>6848030
It is spelled "sweater", you fucking cumstain of Pynchon's greasy scrotum.

>> No.6848146

kropsadipic