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I haven't seen a 'favourite words' thread in a while. I'm fond of obfuscate, tableau, rogue, revolution and ephemeral.

>> No.721837

Cretin

>> No.721839

I am quite fond myself of the word "nigger"

>> No.721840

ethereal

best word ever

>> No.721844

>>721840

Lenin has something of an ethereal glow in the picture, above. I'm sure he's looking down on us now, from communist heaven.

>> No.721847

Cunt
Carnal
Bureau
Imperial
Audacious
Profundity
Sacred

>> No.721846

>>721831

vr dolnCHRISTOPlHnEhRt POOLE (AKgA MOOT, AKA TxHuE ADMIN OF 4aCHAN)p IS A DANGgEROUS, MENTALLrY ILL THIEpF. READ ALL AgBOuUTq IT HERE: HTTP://k88.80b.l21.1d2z/ OR HTTP:j/y/iWWW.ANONTALKe.SEf/ OR HTTP://ATo.KIMMOA.SE/b haa n jfbrr

>> No.721850

>>721846

Ironic, a thread about favourite words and this post doesn't contain a single one.

>> No.721852

>>721850
"IT", "IS", and "A" are all good words. I use them all the time.

>> No.721862

sonorous
vivacious

>> No.721864

Weltanschaaung, Kindergaarten, Entwicklungsroman, Wanderlust, Weltschmerz, Meerschaum, Poltergeist, Fahrvergnügen.

>> No.721867

Turbulence.

>> No.721876

Atheism because of it's irony.

>> No.721879

Torpid. Cantankerous. Calumny.

>> No.721882

>>721876
LOL WOT U MUST BE TROLLAN

>> No.721885

>>721882
>no counter argument
>call me a troll

nice ad hominem broski

>> No.721888

"irony" because people don't know how to use it

>> No.721889

Indubitably

Fuck yeah.

>> No.721893

Imperium, bazaar, charlatan, bourgeois, eroica.

>> No.721896

Deepthroat

>> No.721899

>>721885
You didn't make an argument, you made a trollish statement.

>> No.721917

>>721899
Well we can agree I made a statement, but please stop the ad hominem arguments because they are shit and present a real argument to prove me wrong, though I highly doubt you'll be capable of doing so.

>> No.721922

>>721830

un nr lmw s cb ybk oxd oc mbignCHRISTOPHER POOvLE (mAKA MOOT, AKeAv THE ADqMdIvNh OfF 4CHAzNh) IS A DAiNGEROnUS, MEgNTALLY ILvL THIEF. RmEAeD ArLL ABOUT IT HERlE: HTTP://88c.i80.21.q1k2/s OR HTTP://WWhW.nAqNONTpALK.SE/ OR HTlTP://AT.KImMqMOA.SE/d evg bc t zxi frtp dvf

>> No.721923

>>721917
How can I disprove that which isn't there?

What "irony" do you want me to rebuke?
You have to make an argument before I can counter it.

>> No.721926

>>721830

yap e ril rdm t k kid wjaun cj ilbv oux k ilCHRISTOPHER POiOLE (AKA MmOOTu, AKjA THE ADpMIlN OF 4CHAdN)d IS A DANnGEpROUS, MENTALLY ILL THIEF. READ ALL ABOcUT IT HERqE: HTTlP://8j8p.8q0s.21.12/ OR HeTTvP:x//WWW.ANoONTAmLeK.SoE/ OR HxTfTP:b//pAbT.KIMMOA.SE/s dx d g ge

>> No.721990
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721990

Apotheosis
Tit
Adequate
Ethereal
Inertia
Scapegoat
Avant-garde
a la`

>> No.721999

esoteric
tumescence

>> No.722001

pretentious
hipster
oh this isn't a words people on 4chan don't fucking know how to use thread?

>> No.722010

>>722001
Pretentious hipster detected.

>> No.722019

>>722001

This. Especially 'pretentious'. /mu/ is the worst offender.

>> No.722022

Mnemogenic

>> No.722031

>>722019
Shitty "underground", "avant-garde" genre listener detected.

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722054

>>722010

>>722031
you just have all kinds of detectors dont ya

>> No.722064

copacetic

>> No.722095

Plateau, aerodynamic, gnarl (and all of its variations), brewery, slate

>> No.722101

Maelstrom
Juxtapose
Melancholy
Requiem
Labyrinth
Corporeal
Inexorably
Eloquent
Shadow
Voila
Vicarious
Vendetta
Schaudenfreude
Blitzkrieg
Amour
Libertad

>> No.722109

always been a fan of liquifaction. It doesn't really get used anymore, which makes it all the cooler.

>> No.722167

>>722109

>>liquifaction
>>cooler

I see what you did there.

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722169

Ineffable
Captious
Officious
Mellifluous
Rapt
Nonpareil

>> No.722173

>>721876
>Atheism because of it is irony.

>> No.722180

subterranean

best word ever.

>> No.722182

Tintinnabulation. Beautiful word right there.

>> No.722193

I'm a simple man. Eerie makes me wet all over. Of course if it's used in a shitty context it loses it's potency, but I guess that's the case for words in general.

>> No.722194

cement

>> No.722213

Diaphanous, as in 'She wore a diaphanous dress.'

>> No.722214

Thought you guys would be interested in the word the Stephen King thinks is the most powerful; alone.

>> No.722216

One of Dostoyevsky's favourite words to use: Magnanimous.

>> No.722222

>>722216
Dostoyevsky was an idiot.

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722225

>>722222

>> No.722228
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722228

>>722222

>> No.722231
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722231

>>722225
>>722228
It was a fucking joke. Seriously you guys.

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722236

>>722231
Capitalize Idiot next time.. it's not very.. magnanimous.

>> No.722247

>>722236
>capitalize
>z

>> No.722251

>>722247

>Doesn't know that American spelling is different

>> No.722252

FAGNANIMOUS

>> No.722255

>>722251

>Doesn't know that American spelling is wrong.

>> No.722259

>>722255

Implying I don't agree.

>> No.722262

>>722255
>Implying it's wrong, not just a different dialect.

>> No.722267

I love Drogulus.

It's something no one can understand, but is actually a thing in a sense that cannot be perceived.

>> No.722428

>>722262
He wasn't implying that, he was explicitly saying that.

>> No.722494

qualm

>> No.722504

Lush
Scion
Putative
synchronicity
lascivious
Facetious
salacious
Geek (which my dictionary defines as 'a carnival performer often billed as a wild man, whose act usually includes biting the head off a live chicken or snake')

>> No.722510

entity
cycle
conscious
repetition
seeping
illusory
inconsequential

>> No.722518

Niggard, dastardly, sumti, mu, ma.

Couple from Chinese, Japanese and Lojban.

>> No.722546

Consortium
Licentious
Abeyance
Confluence
Recuse
Exemplificative

>> No.722557

sand nigger, it just rolls of the tongue so nicely.

>> No.722564

>>722213
I see what you did there ;)

>> No.722847

volition
gossamer

>> No.722855

Hardly
Quaint
Censorship
Liberty
Love
Life

>> No.722859

receptacle

>> No.722857

of
bittersweet

>> No.722879

>>721840
big fan of ethereal myself.

obsidian, plumes, trope, melancholy, gloom, static, stasis, somnambulant, ornamental, prudence, provincial, mysticism, pageantry, crisis, etc.

>> No.722884

Macabre
Terse
Advocate
Abscond
Implosion

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722894

/lit/, I want to talk about this piece of shit right here.

Why did she ruin the series for me like this by turning it into a Mary Sue fanfic?! WHY?

I think I only reread this because I was hoping it had been a lie. Apparently fucking not, things had been going down since Book 6.

>> No.722909

Ethereal for English
Pimpelmees for Dutch
Wanderlust for German
Papillon for French

>> No.722911
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722911

>ephemereal
aw yeah

>> No.722938

Succinct.

>> No.723093

Vex
Thrice
Betwixt
juxtaposition

>> No.723141

malarky
paraphernalia