Favorite Words

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Favorite Words
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Favorite Words

 

I wasn't sure where to put this, but here it is! Post your favorite words here. They can be your faves because of their definition or their connotation or because they're fun to say or something else entirely.

Here's some of mine:

Colloquialism ('cause it's fun to say)

Quark (same reason)

Serendipity

Moxie

Moonshine

Flapdoodle

Codswallop

Malarkey

Claptrap (this and the four before it are all synonyms for "nonsense"; I still can't believe "flapdoodle" is a word)

Gloaming (a synonym for twilight; I love everything about this word, from its definition to its spelling)

Susurrus

Aurora

 

Have fun!

submitted by Wren, age 13, Saturn
(November 20, 2021 - 11:56 am)

My favorite words:

- Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (from Mary Poppins) It is so fun to say!!!

- Glacier

- Remarkable

- Umbrella

- Squiggly

- Periwinkle 

Some words that I absolutely CAN NOT STAND are:

- Moist

- Scalp

- Pus

- Scab

Notice in the least- favorite words that what all of them really are are pretty gross! Unless a cake is moist. That's different! :) 

~ The Elephant Spirit

submitted by The Elephant Spirit, age 149 moons, The top of a tree
(May 25, 2023 - 6:15 pm)

Persnickety

Tintinnabulation

Fopple

Tosh and piffle are also words for nonsense!

Spatiotemperal

Effervescence

Quagmire

Happenstance 

submitted by Celine, age As Needed, The FireMist Sea
(June 25, 2023 - 8:07 pm)

I honestly can't decide what my favorite word is! But I did try to make up a couple of sentences using as many of them as I could while still being vaguely understandable. (Italicized are words I really like; bolded are words others have proposed.)

 

The brobdingnagian lumberjack led the susurrating worms in a tintinnabulation of sounds. The malarkey hodgepodge from its serpentine passages slipped out into the periwinkle, gloaming sky. It reached the flapdoodle town of Zephyr (that's cheating, isn't it? Using names to sneak in those words that you love but can't find a way to otherwise?) perched perilously on the edge of the quagmire, and its largest dwelling, Sequoia manor, glistening, chartreuse, ostentacious, forbidden, enveloped in foreboding mist. It was a manor of bevelled jelly (they were in that order and there's a certain ring to it, a sussurating whisper of something intriguing), a manor of espionage, forlorn lives that intertwine, a forbidden grape by the lavender hearth, silvery rosewood in crystal chandeliers (yes it doesn't make sense just roll with it), creamy, tumultous, butterscotch,  forgotten wishes, kvetching about erinacious whippersnappers, including the peringrinating, persnickety, bibliophilic, children of the owners, creating a malestrom  and the manor children who worked there at all hours, midnight even, entranced, mezmerized, spellbound, by the luxurious lives the owners lived, because the alternative was a mediocre ramshackle house bound by ferox, child of a ranger yelling "Timber!" (Yes that's not what they do) sheltering there in the middle of a blizzard, hoping for a wizard to come (sorry that it rhymes), to take the life of, perhaps, one of them. Or perhaps not. By happenstance, this might align with one of their lives. Perhaps not. Perhaps it was how spell-bound the manor children were.

That's all I'm doing for now; otherwise I'll spend my whole life on this. (I feel like I'm stretching it on "Spell-bound", but it's just such a wonderful implication. They're not choosing to; they're bound by spells of some sinister nature. By the way, did you know that sinister comes from the word "left" in Latin - left, and lefties by extension, are traditionally bad, and 'left' in its other sense is also usually bad, while 'right' in its other sense is usually good which is almost certainly just conjecture but oh well)

Also, is it just me getting the sense that, ignoring the butterscotch, this might just be a good setting for a tale

submitted by forsythia , The Merrie Woods
(June 26, 2023 - 4:48 pm)

This does sound like a good setting...

submitted by Artemis
(June 27, 2023 - 11:15 am)

Fabulous! It would hurt my brain to read an entire book with that kind of vocabulary but all of those words sound so cool together.

submitted by Lupine
(June 27, 2023 - 3:00 pm)

-rosewood

-satin

-chandelier

-eclair

-flapdoodle (I love this one...)

-mystic

-daring (the whole vibe of this word is quite to my liking)

 

submitted by Poinsettia
(June 28, 2023 - 2:17 pm)

My favorite words are:

- Majestic

- Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (I just learned it for fun)

- Creativity

- Celestial

- Enchanting

- Lavender 

submitted by Moon Wolf, age lunaryears, A Celestial Sky
(June 28, 2023 - 10:10 pm)

Everyone has so many words to share :D

Random fact: The longest 'word' in english, or to be more specific, latin, is a  word in debate because its actually a name for a complicated amino acid, so it doesn't exactly count, but it's very long, and by that I mean very long, like, we're talking about four, five pages of pure name with no spaces in between. The reason for this is because to name an amino acid correctly, you have put the name of every single molecule chain inside it together, which results in mind-boggling long names. The simple name for the acid is Tintin.

And here's some words:

modicum

pilfer

incorrigible

enthralling

sterile

conniving

diversify

imbibe

viscous 

submitted by Ultimatium
(June 30, 2023 - 8:51 am)

glimmer

pine

mystic

ruby

intricate

solemnity

mist

amber

mistral

submitted by North Star
(June 30, 2023 - 10:10 am)

Celestial

Rhombicosidodecahedron

Glitch

Bruh

submitted by Darkvine, age 13 tomorow, the corn-infested Midwest
(June 30, 2023 - 4:58 pm)

-Ooze

-Antidisestablishmentarianism

-Puddle

-Snow 

submitted by Cloud Bunny, age forever, Up in the Clouds
(July 1, 2023 - 1:27 pm)

I absolutely love the word hiraeth. It's meaning, it's sound... perfection <33

submitted by Writing_in_the_dark, age 13, The Mindscape
(July 1, 2023 - 8:46 pm)

YES

submitted by Artemis
(July 2, 2023 - 3:56 pm)

My favorite words and what they mean are:

  • Resplendent(it's fun to say) — shining 
  • Statuesque(Also fun to say) — dignity or grace
  • Pulchritudinous(like the meaning) — physically beautiful
  • Sublime(I don't know why I like this word?) — supreme 
  • Ravenous(because I use it to describe my hunger in a more dramatic way) — hungry
  • Splendiferous (fun to say)— showily impressive

 

submitted by Forget-me-not, age 11 moons, in a library
(July 5, 2023 - 7:50 am)

Top 4 words of all time:

-Nitwit

-Blubber

-Odment

-Tweak

Thank you. 

submitted by Lupine
(July 5, 2023 - 7:42 pm)