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One time my sister said that if chlorine and asthma didn’t have meanings she would name a child that.

Everyone sharing their words feels like I’m in a surreal episode of Wordgirl. Ifykyk

5:29 In my seventh grade Latin class, my class’s word of choice was defenestration. It came about because of the Latin for window being fenestra, and soon the class had devolved into “Do you wish to be defenestrated? Then learn to quiet yourself!”

I love the word “yikes” because you can say it to any scenario “The cops are hunting you down” - “Yikes!” “How are you?” - “Yikes…” “I broke my arm!” - “YIKES!”

Cornobble: the act of hitting someone in the face with a dead fish Defenestration: the act of throwing oneself out of a window Chrath: the urge to hit someone with a chair And my absolute favorite: wlonk (plural and weak singular wlonke): noble, highborn. fair, beautiful, gorgeous. fine, excellent, splendid. proud, boastful.

Unbeknownst. It's just one of those big words that simplifies your writing to be more cohesive while also making you sound smart, and I absolutely love it.

My favorite Word is “Catharsis” meaning the process of releasing strong emotions through some kind of activity or experience. It’s one of the main reasons I like writing and reading in the first place.

One of my favorites is cacophony, that acording to google is a harsh discordant mixture of sounds. "a cacophony of deafening alarm bells"

I love vellichor! 'The strange wistfulness of used bookstores.' And I also love rubatosis. 'The unsettling awareness of your heartbeat.'

I love the word fawn, as in fawning over another person

Never had much chance to use it, or at least haven't found the right place for it, but my word for this is "Crestfallen." "Sad and disappointed," perfect for that moment where your character finds a goal just out of their reach. Makes me think of Moonlight Sonata or something of that nature.

Petrichor: the smell of rain, not only is the smell of rain like one of my fav smells but it is also a really fun word to say

not a writer, but a typist. I speed type for fun and one of my favourite words to see on the prompt is "alright" since it brings your fingers to a rest position at the end of the word and makes it easier to type the next word. Kinda different perspective on words from two hobbies which both involve putting words in front of each other.

Personally began using "uncouth" recently. As someone who likes to insult with Shakespeare words, it's nice to have a fancy way to call someone rude.

“Copacetic” is such an awesome word.

Theres a sort of satisfaction that comes from using a word someone else doesn't know and getting to explain what it means. Maybe it's just the inherent smugness that comes with being a recovering gifted kid, but it's also a good feeling to be able to dissect the meaning of things I say. A word that people ask about a lot is "litigious", which is a descriptor for someone who's prone to issuing lawsuits over seemingly minor things. It comes up in conversation a lot more than you'd expect.

I’ve loved the word “rankle” since I first found it in a book, it means, (of a comment, event, or fact) cause annoyance or resentment that persists. It’s also just so much fun to say. Another, more stupid, word that I love saying, is “ladle”, it’s just fun

I'm a huge fan of tentatively, I like using it in scenes where a character is feeling sensitive or vulnerable, it feels slow, deliberate, hesitant, nervous, calm. I love tentatively

-brandished -discombobulated

I’m in love with ichor and petrichor. Also the word blood just sounds and looks nice

Captivating is a current favorite

mania - it’s just one of my favorite words that has almost no synonyms I do also like it’s different variations of Manic and Maniac

Not a writer, but there's a word that I really love the sound of (BTW, it's in French): Coquelicot, which is a poppy in English. I love the sound of the repeated c consonances. It's very satisfying to say.

Not recent, but I love "persnickety." Whenever people stupidly say they're "a little OCD," I say "No, you're not a 'little' OCD, OCD is a debilitating mental illness, there's no 'little' about it. You are persnickety."

Frivolous is my bbg

entropy, entropic, words like that. I love them. I don’t know why. Edit: I also love the phrase “mutually exclusive”. It’s fun to say or smth idk

Some of my favorite words: Redundant, Tangent, and Rant were taught to me by WordGirl as a kid and I use them often because I, too, am a Captain Tangent. Thank you WordGirl.

Thrice will always be my love

Save, not as in the noun or the verb, but as in the preposition meaning “except”.

None of these are new but my favorite word of all time is Phantasmagoria And the list continues like Periwinkle Sequoia Velvet Dominion Enthralling Calico Parasol Marshmallow Winding Beseeched Textile Pumpernickel Amethyst Bemused Enchanting concubinus Ivy Buttons Alluring Folktale Megafauna Vampiric Spun Ephemeral

1:56 i absolutely love the word for its meaning. the smell is so heavenly

oh my god my list i’ve been slowly adding to for months finally comes in handy. catalyst, demonym, echelon, exasperated, invoke, finagle, mcgyver, contrived, arbitrary, tertiary, sapient, spitball, mortifying, omit, contrarian, titular, catatonic, mccarthyism, posit, oft, insignia, palpable, perpetual, rawdog, per, and poorly are my all time favorite words ever and i can go into depth on why i love each and every one. delicious words

Incase. Ever since I heard it I've loved hearing it, and saying it to myself. It's become a vocal stim, I don't do it as much, but I used to just sit there and go "Incase.. incase, case- incase.."

I think my favorite that I've learned as of recent is "zugzwang" (pronounced tsooks-vong; it's a loanword from German). It originated as a chess term, and is a position where a player has to make a move, but all legal moves are bad options (specifically, for chess, you are in zugzwang if it is your move and any legal move will worsen your position, and is most commonly used when any legal move will lead to the opponent checkmating you). Other neat words I like quite a bit (though they aren't exactly recent) are a few mathematical terms: "quaternions" are a 4D extension of the complex numbers, a "transcendental" number is any number that is not the root of a finite polynomial with rational coefficients (for example, π, e, and ln(2) are all transcendental), and a "bijection" is a one-to-one mapping between two sets (for example, the function f(x) = ln(x) is a bijection mapping (0,∞) → ℝ, while f(x) = sin(x) is not bijective, along with all other periodic functions). As an interesting note for the last one, given a bijective function, its inverse is also bijective (i.e. sinh(x) is a bijection from ℝ → ℝ, so arcsinh(x) is also a bijection from ℝ → ℝ). In general, if a map is a bijection from A → B, its inverse is a bijection from B → A.

What a great way to kick off my spring break!

Kaleidoscopic or iridescent They taste good Or Sardonic (or Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious) For obvious reasons And Defenestration! My friend introduced me to the word and I love it

6:35 Ah, yes, my favorite literary character - Don "Quick-sote"

Smorgasbord. It is a nightmare to spell but so fun to say

Not necessarily a word I discovered, but a phrase I _re_ discovered-- [their face] lit up. I don't know, but it just provides such a lovely image, of somebody's face going from bored or sad to full of joy and excitement. Also pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, in part because I actually have a valid excuse to use it, and another because the word was invented to troll people, which I find very funny. Two very different examples, but they both have a place in my heart.

delicatessen is such a fun word

Eccedentediastic, or hiding one's pain behind a smile.

I really like the words Odyssey and Saga; they feel much greater than just “story” The words “Aurora” and “Jaundice” sound really pretty; even though their meanings fall on the opposite ends of the beauty scale I also really like the word “Betwixt” for some reason; betwixt is an old way of saying Between

I really love "lest" and "albeit" too

Not exactly _new_ words but words I really, really like: *Saturnine,* meaning of Saturn but I like it specifically in the context to mean melancholy or solemn. I like it because I'm often quite melancholic but it also aptly describes a certain group. *Sobriquet,* which is a nickname used in place of one's name that also describes the subject, like Land of the Rising Sun for Japan or the King of Rock for Elvis Presley. I can pronounce it either way and no one can stop me but I also only realised what the difference between a sobriquet and epithet is recently so I've been having fun with it. *Antidisestablishmentarianism,* denoting proponency against disestablishing the UK government as the patron of the Church of England. It's very long.

i played fauré’s elegy like 5 years ago and the word elegy has really stuck since, sick word

my favorite word is unfathomable. use it so much

Brooooooo!!!! I literally learned what a tupla was (a being/creature made real from someone's thoughts) and as someone that studies mythology in their free time I couldn't stop thinking about it.

my favorite is probably "conjured", it means to make or call upon something usually within magical contexts but its just so fun to use

That last comment is kinda based tbh. One of my favorite words is “ricochet” because I have a crush on an online friend whose username is “RIKOchet” and it reminds me of him.

Just…any gemstone name. I’ve been a sucker for gemstones for a while now (Steven Universe is partially to blame for that one lol) and a lot of their names are just really pretty, even the ‘basic’ ones. Pearl, emerald, rose quartz, sugilite, lapis lazuli, sapphire, padmaraga, thulite…I could go on all day!

My absolute Favorite Word is mithridatism (the act of ingesting small non-lethal amounts of poison in order to build up immunity to said poison) but I never get to use it. My current top word is much more useful; hypnopomic. The word relating to having just woken up. It's the best.

I'm fond of "philistine" and "neophyte". Also everything Bentley the Yeti said in Spyro 3. He calls Moneybags a "duplicitous avaricious ursine" and bashes his head in. What an icon.

One of my favourites is ornithophobia. It means an extreme fear of birds

Omori used the word pulchritudinous, and I've never been able to forget it.

man. It can be used for so much, man.

I love how many of these words have gone through my head (viscera, mellifluous, ichor in the comments) They're just objectively good words 😌

i like the word "halcyon", it means happy, bubbly, or cheerful, and i used it as a name for one of my ocs =)

I've recently fallen in love with the word Vicissitude "a change of circumstances or fortune, typically one that is unwelcome or unpleasant."

I love the way soliloquy sounds. It,s essentially talking with yourself.

“Apprehensive” But I will regularly get a word stuck in my head and have to include it in everything that I write.

I love phobia words. Can't explain it, but any *prefix*phobia is amazing

My favorite is “akimbo”, which literally means “standing with your hands on your hips” (example of using it would be “she stood akimbo”)

I love “petrified” when it means afraid. It’s so useful for the type of stories I write (I torture my main characters aha)

not really my favorite word when writing. BUT it is my favorite word and has been for YEARS. The word is toyetic. It is such a good word and I use it whenever I can. it is also just kind of funny sounding and fun to say

Serendipitous. I never get to use it often, but it's such a wonderful word.

A few words I've fallen in love with, but don't get to use very often: Mayhaps, catawampus, hullabaloo, capybara, androgen, tepache... honestly, 'Tepache' sounds like it should be an awesome character name. On that note, do foreign words count? Because I always liked 'querida' more than 'mon cher,' blame Raoul Julia for that. The Finnish word for reindeer sounds so nice and gentle, too: poro. Smuggling that in somewhere when I can. But my absolute favorite has to be a German word: Meerschweinchen. It rolls off the tongue so perfectly, and when you say it in an aggressive tone it ends up sounding hilarious. Just write the words "German gibberish, German gibberish, a very loud 'Meerschweinchen!' and possibly more Germanic expletives that are best left in the mires of ignorance" and you have yourself a perfectly serviceable comedy scene.

I like using the word “Xanadu”. It’s a specific shade of green that I really like, and it’s fun to say and type.

Petrichor is my favorite word. I hardly ever have a use for it, I’m bad at describing scents always, but when I remember it I am delighted. I love it. It’s such an excellent word. I am ecstatic beyond reason whenever I see it used

Shimmer/Shimmering or glimmer/glimmering (fun to say especially in sequence, & rhyming the two is also fun. I almost always use this when describing water or anything shiny.) Majestic, shadow (I use this literally every time I describe a dark area), any complicated color (ie. Magenta, cerulean, indigo, crimson, vermilion, lavender) Melodic, (fun to say, I'm also a very musical person) Flash (either super fast, or very fancy.) splatter (especially when describing blood)

1:24 As an Omori fan: THANK YOU FOR NOT ONLY EXPLAINING WHAT IT MEANS BUT ALSO PRONOUNCING IT

Here's one I heard for the first time today. Spasmodic. It means something occurring or done in brief, irregular bursts.

my favorite word at the moment is gossamer. very pretty word

I don't really have a favorite word per se, but while watching this video, I got reminded of the word "Menagerie". I keep forgetting what it meant so I looked it up and it means "a collection of captive animals kept for display", now I'm kinda sad because it sounds like such a cute word but... Also, "Miscellaneous/Miscellany", absolutely love that word.

My favorite word is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. I remember when I spent spring break learning to pronounce it

i'm a big fan of onomatopoeia. both words that are onomatopoeia, and the word itself. it's very fun to say

this reminds me of the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, it’s a book of made up words with specific definitions just like these. i’ve spotted a comment on this video referencing two words which originate from the Dictionary, tho i’m not sure if the commenter knew lol

I love 'superfluous', it's fun to say, and is ironically rather useful :)

When I started writing Encanto fanfics I loved the word clairvoyant. I would go out of my way to make sure I could use it

In this video, Joey flawlessly pronounces super complex words first try and no one gives a shit

my favorite word is wicked. it's not that complicated but it's... wicked cool

Nacre, Entendre, Waltz. All very flavorful words I drop whenever and wherever possible. Why walk when one can *waltz*?

Hiraeth. Technically not an English word, it's Welsh, but it describes a mix of nostalgia and longing in a very specific way. Saw it described as "Homesickness for a how you can't return to, and maybe never was" once and have been obsessed with it ever since. I swear I will find a way to incorporate this into a fic someday. I HAVE to.

Quest has always been a favorite word of mine

Emancipation, but the positive kind. The complete freedom and vulnerability brought to a previously trapped character. I remember seeing it for a video essay on Blackbeard from Our Flag Means Death, and how the show created a beautifully queer storyline with an otherwise generally vague historical figure

Every time I write an AkiToya AU fanfic I have to include that Akito’s hair is a “vivid shade of orange” Vivid I guess

i love the word soliloquy(i think it means when a character goes on a big rant to themself)

It isn’t new to me but the word “critter” makes me feel all warm in cozy inside

I don't use it a lot in my stories, but spontaneous combustion always gets a giggle out of me

Verdigris. The green of copper. I’ve always loved green copper as used in Architecture, and verdigris just seems a perfect word for the way it looks

I like obfuscate, which is to render something ambiguous. a common example is giving a vague answer to a question. There are so many good words for dunking on someone's writing.

For some reason I literally cannot get over the word languish. I JUST LOVE IT

As a writer I have a document full of vocabulary on my phone that I constantly add to when I encounter a word I don’t know. My favorites are ardently (meaning to do something passionately) & besotted (meaning to be infatuated with). At this point I use them both in almost all of my fics. I just can’t get enough of them

I like to use the word ‘visceral’ when describing emotions

words are nice sometimes

a word that I love, is "chancellor", which means a senior of a state or a college leader, I sometimes use it to justify the political importance of an oc.....😅 since English is not my first language, in my original language, the word I love is "Baluarte" which means bulwark, a defensive wall....

The moment I saw 'Petrichor' on the thumbnail, I was thankful that there are more people who find it beautiful other than me. I even named one of my main characters with it.

Gerald If I see a story with the word, Gerald in it, I know that the artist must have the same brainwave as me

My fave word right now is probably "shenanigan" I also fell in love with "moot" and "nibble" (Thank you David Tennant)

bruit! i found this word through a game and i simply cannot forget about it. it is a noun to refer to rumours or noise and cacophony or a verb to spread rumours or to report on them. i thought it would be pronounced broo-it but no, it is pronounced the same way as the word 'brute'.