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List your favorite words in the English language. Be gay nerds and fight over them like sports teams. Fuck everyone who likes "aloof."

Objective best:
Language, magic, ice, icicle, temptress, butterfly, lava, sycophant, cognition, agony, hag, renaissance, logic, memory, A E S T H E T I C, talon, marsh, ennui, hillock, lolipop, murder, evil, nigger

>> No.7879473

>nigger
Classy.

I've always liked "collonade" and "hermitage". Not sure why, something to do with the combination of sounds.

>> No.7879483

circumnavigate and nadir are pretty good

>> No.7879510

>>7879464

Dreadnought.

>> No.7879516

Somber

>> No.7879520

Shitstain

Asspussy

Harpsichord

>> No.7879530

watermelon

clusterfuck

jeez

>> No.7879532

Caught

Part

Plan

>> No.7879550

>>7879464
pulchritude

somnambulism

man

>> No.7879554

>>7879464
Propaganda sounds nice

>> No.7879555

Howling, fuck, blue

>> No.7879556

Supine

Federal

Sustenance

Orgasm

Theology

Mandible

Bumhole

>> No.7879558

>>7879556
your a faggot. all of those words are horrible.

>> No.7879559

>>7879550
pulchritude is so gay, u probably bandwagon'd it from that reddit / imgur post, and anyway it's linguistically redundant ie useless ie gay, like you

>> No.7879560
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7879560

subterfuge

vindictive

Monegasque

malaise

>> No.7879563

>>7879559
>linguistically redundant
sit down son. no pleonasms here, faggot.

>> No.7879566

>>7879563
so how long have you been waiting to use the word pleonasm?
i'm guessing not very long since you seem willing to use it inaccurately.

>> No.7879568

vivid

agonizing

bright

prosperity

dreaded

heaven

>> No.7879573

>>7879566
>thinking pleonasm isn't synonymous with redundant
boy, you're on a tear today, son.

>> No.7879577

>>7879573
i didn't realize you were autistic, sorry. carry on.

>> No.7879578

idiosyncratic

centrifugal

>> No.7879579

>>7879568
you ever seen the new name fad where they name their kid Nevaeh? fucking people naming their kids heaven backwards.

>> No.7879581

Mortmain

Gloaming

>> No.7879584

>>7879577
>hurr durr ur artistic
you sure are sorry.

>> No.7879585

Halcyon is my favourite word, just so good

>> No.7879587

>>7879584
it was the only explanation i could come up with to explain how you missed my point. well either that or just plain stupid.

>> No.7879593

>>7879587
>missed my point
the plot thickens.
you really are a faggot, no wonder one of your favorite words is bumhole.

>> No.7879595

Leviathan
Wont
Riverrun

>> No.7879600

Apotheosis

Demiurge

Supine

>> No.7879607

>>7879593
I'm sorry about your autism. Thank you for this exchange. I'll leave you to your F5ing and memeing.

>> No.7879615

>>7879595

>Riverrun

Lurk more

>> No.7879617

>>7879464
moist
>liking aesthetic unironically
fag

>> No.7879621

penultimate

i know it sounds insufferably pretentious but it's such a neat word

>> No.7879627

fucking love "triadicity", shits patrish as shit too cuz if u try to google it up u just get some queer analytic philosophy paper, it's not mainstream enough for even the oed

>> No.7879629

>>7879621
penultimate's rad for sure, do u dig nadir? i enjoy it

>> No.7879634
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7879634

Some of my personal favorites off the top of my head:

Ocean
Ancient
Myth
Cellar
Aesthetic
Carve
Egregious

>> No.7879635

>>7879607
I just took a shit that looks suspiciously like this post. are you robbing my toilet bowl again? how's life after your father disowned you, faggot?

>> No.7879637

>>7879634
you seem like a guy who likes the word myopic.

>> No.7879643
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7879643

Cock, cum, fuck, taste, sensitive, aching, orgasm, agony, pleasure.

>> No.7879646
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>>7879563
XD

>> No.7879651

>>7879627
sounds neochristian, probably like you

>> No.7879654

>>7879483
>>7879556
These are good
>>7879560
Didn't know two of them, but I like them all.
>>7879568
Vivid and dread are good.
>>7879578
How about idiosyncrasies?
>>7879585
>Halcyon
Fuck yes, awesome word.
>>7879600
These are really great.
>>7879617
Honestly love the word 'moist'. Not sure why it bothers people.

>> No.7879662

>>7879637
Does this have a double meaning, or are you being sincere? Either way, i do like it some.

>> No.7879672

>Mine are:
Plausible,
Orchestrated,
Occur

>> No.7879703

>read thread
>90% of what's posted is just loanwords from latin or French
come on lads there are nice sound anglo-saxon words

>> No.7879793
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peripheral
dichotomy
dialectic
jist
jeez
jeepers

>> No.7879794

I've always enjoyed the sounds of chemical names
> Sodium Hydroxide

Other than I like

> somatic
> control
>vernacular
>splay
>crane
> prised

>> No.7879828

interpellation
paradoxical
weaponry
vindicate
indicative
legion
centripetal

>> No.7879832

Splendor
Zeitgeist
Aesthetic

>> No.7879954

mountebank
harum-scarum
toll
wend
ivory
tellurian
loup
pellucid

>> No.7880012

Analytic.
Ambit.
Solar.
Technician.
Brandish.
Finite.
Armament.
Dark.
Maymay.
Exemplify.
Function.
Anodyne.
Battery.

I just noticed that most of these words are technical or sciency.
Wew.

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>>7879793
>jist
at least spell it right

>> No.7880082
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Cartographer
Amanuensis
Apothecary
Brine
Theory
Synagogue
Haze
Putrid
Fawn
Blob
Chirp
Admire
Shatter
Esoteric

>> No.7880089

Serendipity

Piccolo

>> No.7880093

>>7880089
also spleen and splice

>> No.7880123

adore, bluish, bramble, chocolate, dear, deep, dew, dizzy, faith, flow, guardian, kin, lovely, low, mellow, moon, nap, night, raw, ruby, silver, sin, sleepy, slovenly, snack, snow, song, starry, sweet, teeth, wish, yesterday

i tend to like shorter words more.

>> No.7880162

demure
nepenthe
razzmatazz
arcadia
sialoquent
chatelaine

>> No.7880164

Supin

Hot

Puerile

>> No.7880177

>>7880164
I mean Supine

>> No.7880274

>>7879581
Checking the definition of mortmain and I stumble across ecclesiastical. Thanks for that mate.

>> No.7880322
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>>7879464
M U S E U M
U
S
E
U
M

>> No.7880526

>>7880082
And also theoretical.
I love how 'theo' comes out smoothly and once you hit 'r', the rest of the word sort of hurls itself out.
Like a car driving onto a mine.

>> No.7880580

cascade

ephemeral

>> No.7881037

denouement
callipygian
poetaster
sciolist
apotropaic

>> No.7881042

I like -ine / -ile words

supine, virile, nubile among others

>> No.7881066

Haemorrhoids
Vulva
Cellardoor

>> No.7881176

Halcyon
Digital
Register
Proselytise
Badger

>> No.7881192

>>7879464
only hillock and temptress are good in that list
>>7879473
really good
>>7879483
meh
>>7879510
good
>>7879516
okay
>>7879520
asspussy is kindof nice? the others are boring
>>7879530
no
>>7879532
for you
>>7879550
disgusting
>>7879554
yes
>>7879555
meh
>>7879556
supine is alright, rest are terrible
>>7879560
malaise. rest are awkward

>> No.7881195

>>7879615
what?

>> No.7881199

>>7879585
>>7880274
halcyon and ecclesiastical are god-tier

>> No.7881422

>A E S T H E T I C
>nigger

I think this OP exemplifies the age and intellectual level of the majority of /lit/ posters in 2016.

>> No.7881627

Let's see... doomsayer, ennui, valorous, eerie, archaic, and cracker.

>> No.7881635

Christ Dog Dead God Fuck-you Infinity

>> No.7881658

>>7881195
LURK MOAR

>> No.7881670

simulacrum is best

>> No.7883315
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>>7879464
Quixotic

Betwixt

Minimum

Love

Fuck

>> No.7883338

cascade/cascading

lurid

howling

fantasy

thicket

evergreen

anything with an -esque

>> No.7883353

irrumatio

I guess that's Latin or Greek, but we use it, and it's an awesome word.

>> No.7883362

>>7881658
no u

>> No.7883680

>>7879464
SUCC

>> No.7883696

Not really a native speaker, so a lot of words that may sound normal to anglophones sound interesting to me, but i have a few select ones that shine: Gloom, doom, sky, abyss, and cunny

>> No.7883717

Cunnilingus
Defenestration
Obomotopaia
Orobouros
Portcullis
Fart

>> No.7883720

Panoply

Tetrarchy

Tetragrammaton

Castigate

Vigour

Blithe

Torrid

Lictor

Evoke

Domineer


Some loanwords, true, but they're all very impressive sounding IMO.

>> No.7883722

>>7881670
Humonuculus is good too

>> No.7883731

>>7883680
GRANDAD

>> No.7883739

>>7879464
The fuck is dat pic niqqa

>> No.7883778

>>7879464
Those are good words, nigger.

>> No.7883794

>>7879559
Reductivism is gay. We need more words. The redundant ones give us room for nuance and connotation.
BTW: nuance.

>> No.7884082

>Nouns:
Cock
Knell
Superfluity

>Adjectives:
Nubile

>Verbs:
Buttfuck
Coruscate
Raze

>> No.7884091
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7884091

>>7879464

There are too many tinny words on this thread.

Do perhaps any of you fine gentlemen have any woody words?

>> No.7884123

peculiar
melancholy
bitter
dance
romance
ember
ash
fall
sear
fuck

>> No.7884207

Squeal
Spoom
Frott
Shillelagh
Howl
Coprophilia
Rhythm
Cigarette
Source
Elbow

>> No.7884283

>>7879464
Lucid
Ethereal

>> No.7884300
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>>7879464
oracle
capitalism
transcend
stoic
crystalline

Am I a fag?

>> No.7884315
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>>7884300
Also:
Rivet
Gold
Steel
Transistor
Core
Material
Nuclear
Quantum
Dynamo
Motor

>> No.7884318

>>7884300
>oracle
>stoic
nah you're good

>> No.7884335

loam
synthesis
cloister

>> No.7884342

serendipity

liked the word and the way i read the meaning when i was kid

>> No.7884347

oubliette
serene
orchestral
dour

>> No.7884349

ephemeral

>> No.7884351

>>7879464
>magic
I hate 'magical'. My ex used to say it whenever she ran out of awesome. You're dead, brother.

>> No.7884353

Velleity—claptrap—swift—crabapple—serial

>> No.7884384

lush & dazzling

they sound pretty and a lot like what they mean

>> No.7884390

Ennui is french.

>> No.7884399

Fury, Grieved, Lost, Memento, Faith, Ghost

>> No.7884423

>>7879556
the bumhole in the spoiler fucking killed me

>> No.7884448

trail
numinous
tintinnabulation
lauded

>> No.7884451

Grime
Entomb
Hoarfrost
Rake
Bandit
Salil sawarim
Scimitar
Kobold
Wax
Trinkets

>> No.7884453

>>7884451
Rake is good

>> No.7884484

Juxtapose is objectively the best word

>> No.7884488

Bedazzle

Protrude

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

Palatypus

>> No.7884498

Nether
Ignition
Gargantuan
Gratuitous
Ego
Ravish

>> No.7884592

>>7879532
For

You

>> No.7884594

>>7884484
pl

>> No.7884595
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>mfw realize this thread exists
/lit/ u are 2patrician4me

>> No.7884618

Masquerade
Sojourn

>> No.7884620

Lather
Wrong
Busts
Seek
Froth
Funnel
Anal

>> No.7884631

>>7884390
Languages are bastards

>> No.7884740

Instantaneity
Plenipotentiary
Unplanlessness
Palimpsest
Ethnomycological
Kiln
Philanderer
Phantasmagorical
Frumpy
Rubenesque
Psychical
Duplicitous
Pioneer
Amok
Anew
Ennui
Astronomically
Quell
Lilt
Scaffolding
Rhubarb
Bon Vivant
Perfunctory
Grandiloquent
Proprietary
Incantation

>> No.7884773

Challenge: write a story or poem containing every word you listed.

>> No.7884855

Crepuscular
Flannel
Soothsayer
Indubitably
Schism
Sepulchre

>> No.7884936
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>>7879635
>>7879607

We're not /b/

>spoiler

>we are /b/

>> No.7884969

>>7884855

Crepuscular I agree with.

SEPULCHRE is one of my most fucking hated words. It reeks of goth pseudo. Just say tomb. You're not Edgar Allan Poe

>> No.7885072

>>7879464
Melancholy, ice, logical, cumbersome, catalyst, meritocracy, aesthetic, cohesion, midnight, night, sky.

>> No.7885091

>>7884969

I agree with you in terms of its usage but it is a very nice word.

>> No.7885107

>>7879464
>lava
>aesthetic
nice

>>7879483
>circumnavigate
good taste

>>7879516
>Somber
I like how it is almost like Sober but not exactly

>>7879568
>vivid
great word

>>7883315
>Betwixt
great

>>7883338
>lurid
Like it as much as Vivid

>>7884740
>Kiln
great

>> No.7885186

>>7879464
Asphyxiation. Not to be edgy, but I really like words ending in "iation", and the "A" in the start really ties the end of the word together. The "Sphyx" isn't particularly interesting to me, as I dislike the look of words with x in them, and "sphyx" sounds bad alone, though when in the word Asphyxoation, it sounds ok.

>> No.7885387

apricity

>> No.7885739

>>7884773
I was thinking about that. Making a thread where you post your top ten words and then you have to write something heavily based around the words.
Could be interesting.

>> No.7885749

These threads may be the single most Reddit thing this board does.

It's like a child's idea of what people who like probably do.

>Ah, yes.. Frightfully good word, that. How about "persnickety?"
>Oh, yes indeed, a fine word as well!
>Capital!

>> No.7885758

>>7879464
Almost all french words, merci

>> No.7885771

>>7885749

>fails to make sense in second sentence
>constructs ridiculous strawman

Appreciating aesthetics of single words is really quite fine.

>> No.7885775

Postprandial

Theleological

Dirge

Suicidalism

Hermeneutics

Praxis

Theoresis

>> No.7885779

>>7885107
We like Dark Souls, don't we?

Me too

>> No.7885831

Adage
Yacht
Orchestral

>> No.7887765

Maladroit
Melody
Emaciated
Hellscape
Scorched
Cerebellum
Fuschia
Fin
Fell
Veracity
Voracious
Villainousness
Approbate
Apropos
Indigenous
Inchoate
Ink
There are a lot of nice words.

>> No.7887796 [DELETED] 

Brandish
Struck
Chlamydia
Baroque
Lobe
Clerical
Strengths
Trabecular
Meshwork
Gradient
Camaraderie
Blurred