Words you enjoy

[MJ4H]

You know what I mean. Those words that just give you a little lift or make you grin when you hear them. I will start off with one of my pet words:

flummoxed

Please add your own. Commentary encouraged!

[JimmyWint]

Mine has to be Unconscionable...I throw that word out at least twice a week...

[johnnyshaka]

brouhaha

[B & B]

Juggs

\Juggs\, n. pl. My subscription to Juggs magazine just ran out.

[Subby]

thespian

like me, it is supergay and fabulous

[Dr. Sak]

Fellatio

[stevew]

flabbergasted
Sundries

[terpkristin]

I feel a need to call attention to the song Bulbous Bouffant.

I like words. I like big words. But I stopped using them as often when, in a job interview, I used a word that my interviewer didn't know. :(

/tk

[Bad-example]

I always thought the word "pate" was funny. As in bald pate, not the stuff real men don't eat.

[QuikSand]

onerous

[Toddiec]

Thermopylae. Just watched a deal on Discovery or something about that (riding on the "300" phenomenon) and the voice over guy saying thermopylae was just about the coolest thing ever. The wife and I debated for about 15 minutes if we could get the guy to do a voice over of our average day for $1000 just for the cool factor if it was worth it.

Oh, and phenomenon. Another great word.

[cuervo72]

"yes"

[Ryche]

Gazebo

[st.cronin]

spoon

[Noop]

spoon

Noops.

[Maple Leafs]

donnybrook

[JPhillips]

BOSTON, MA — The editors of the American Heritage® dictionaries have compiled a list of 100 words they recommend every high school graduate should know.

"The words we suggest," says senior editor Steven Kleinedler, "are not meant to be exhaustive but are a benchmark against which graduates and their parents can measure themselves. If you are able to use these words correctly, you are likely to have a superior command of the language."

The following is the entire list of 100 words:

abjure
abrogate
abstemious
acumen
antebellum
auspicious
belie
bellicose
bowdlerize
chicanery
chromosome
churlish
circumlocution
circumnavigate
deciduous
deleterious
diffident
enervate
enfranchise
epiphany
equinox
euro
evanescent
expurgate
facetious
fatuous
feckless
fiduciary
filibuster
gamete
gauche
gerrymander
hegemony
hemoglobin
homogeneous
hubris
hypotenuse
impeach
incognito
incontrovertible
inculcate
infrastructure
interpolate
irony
jejune
kinetic
kowtow
laissez faire
lexicon
loquacious
lugubrious
metamorphosis
mitosis
moiety
nanotechnology
nihilism
nomenclature
nonsectarian
notarize
obsequious
oligarchy
omnipotent
orthography
oxidize
parabola
paradigm
parameter
pecuniary
photosynthesis
plagiarize
plasma
polymer
precipitous
quasar
quotidian
recapitulate
reciprocal
reparation
respiration
sanguine
soliloquy
subjugate
suffragist
supercilious
tautology
taxonomy
tectonic
tempestuous
thermodynamics
totalitarian
unctuous
usurp
vacuous
vehement
vortex
winnow
wrought
xenophobe
yeoman
ziggurat

[MJ4H]

donnybrook

Oh this is a magnificent word. A+

[st.cronin]

That's more like a list of words that if you don't know, its no big deal.

[MJ4H]

BOSTON, MA — The editors of the American Heritage® dictionaries have compiled a list of 100 words they recommend every high school graduate should know.

chicanery
churlish
fiduciary
gerrymander
kowtow
loquacious
obsequious
sanguine
unctuous
usurp
ziggurat

I found about 10 of those 100 that are really awesome words.

GERRYMANDER FOR CRISSAKES.

[FrogMan]

flabbergasted


yup, that'd be the one.

FM

[Izulde]

Stokke

[wheels]

callipygous

[stevew]

Douche

[cuervo72]

recalcitrant

[cthomer5000]

Ive been waiting to do this as an on-air segment for our radio show since december... i have a friend who tries to use the term "T-boned" in terms of a potential car accident as often as possible. This is what brought the thought on in the first place. It's literally like she's trying to find an excuse to say it.

For me personally? Love the words penultimate and turgent (which i dont think I've been able to use in a conversation in about 5 years).

[Dr. Sak]

Stokke

I think in your case it is Stroke

[cuervo72]

coppage

[Aardvark]

insensible
stochastic
reify
conflation
autodefenestration

[Coffee Warlord]

Passport. That word just gets me going.

(a shiny new yak for anyone who picks up the reference)

[bulletsponge]

clusterfuck

[ThunderingHERD]

"Homunculus"

Also, I love the understated bite of "unlettered" when I'm debating someone (e.g.: "...but, to answer your rather unlettered question...").

[Logan]

Traveshamockery.

[Karlifornia]

immaculate, as in:

"Jack Tatum decided not to attend Daryl Stingley's funeral, because he couldn't bear to be involved in another immaculate reception"

(stolen from some guy on the ootp boards)

[Schmidty]

Prestidigitation.

I always think of the word in Don King's voice.

[Fonzie]

Truthiness

[Logan]

Prestidigitation.

I always think of the word in Don King's voice.

I enjoy every word when it's said in Don King's voice.

[JPhillips]

merkin

[CamEdwards]

Schenectady. That has to be the best place name ever.

serendipitous.

baba ganoush.

[14ers]

The word that landed the Governor in so much hot water.


Girlieman

[JPhillips]

I forgot gwaltney.

[Coder]

Homebound

I just like that word.. not particularly uncommon or hard to pronounce or anything.. it just says so much.. it's like a complete little story in itself.

[M GO BLUE!!!]

Dastardly

[ThunderingHERD]

I'm shocked that no one has said "faggoty" yet.

[korme]

Pedestrian. As in, "He has been very pedestrian."

[korme]

Oh and fe-fe man. Ali G uses it when he's referring to Gaylords

[M GO BLUE!!!]

I'm shocked that no one has said "faggoty" yet.

Guess we dropped the soap on that one. Thx.

[Crapshoot]

Luddite, Ergo, Quasi, Ceterus Paribus, and Caveat. :D

[terpkristin]

Truthiness

http://kristin.seidelmann-owners.com/fofc/truthiness_medium.jpg

[Fonzie]

http://kristin.seidelmann-owners.com/fofc/truthiness_medium.jpg

That's beautiful. Colbert Nation would be proud.

[Rizon]

Commodore
Clusterfucked
Discombobulated

[path12]

Dumbfounded. Also, hooligan.

[King of New York]

Namby-pamby

[Poli]

Clearly.

[Dr. Sak]

Seriously

[miked]

Assmaster

[path12]

Doodle.

[st.cronin]

Shakira

[Poli]

"I'll buy you a hat."

[Bonegavel]

Samoflange.

[Bonegavel]

Velocaraptor.

[Poli]

Mustain.

[Poli]

Jazz.

[Poli]

Trombone.

[st.cronin]

Beelzebub

[Aardvark]

Schenectady. That has to be the best place name ever.

serendipitous.

baba ganoush.

How about
Cheesequake
or
Squankum

[st.cronin]

Aishwarya

[Aardvark]

Trombone.
If we are going on about musical instruments:
Posaune
Bratsche
Krumhorn
Saxhorn
Viola d'Amore
Baryton
Serpent
Octobass
Ophicleide
Theremin
Ondes-Martinot
Descant Horn
Glass Harmonica

[Poli]

Maasai

[path12]

Have we had ragamuffin yet?

[Lorena]

ludicrious
ridiculous
shenanigans

[Lorena]

awesome... i use that WAAAAAY too much. It's like such an awesome word

[path12]

I vaguely remember a game show called Shenanigans when I was little.

[stevew]

pistol whip

[Desnudo]

irascible

[path12]

Desnudo.

[Travis]

facetious

[Surtt]

suffrage

[Buccaneer]

obey

[Lorena]

Desnudo.

You like naked men?! :eek:

[st.cronin]

Passacaglia

[BYU 14]

Tomfoolery and debauchery

[path12]

You like naked men?! :eek:

Dodgerchick.

[Crim]

rural

[Lorena]

Dodgerchick.

You're just buttering me up so I can sign up for your game aren't ya? ;)

Here's another word: FUCK how has this word not made it? It's versatile and just f-l-o-w-s.

Fucking fuckkity fuck fuck... just love it.

[Buccaneer]

You're just buttering me up so I can sign up for your game aren't ya? ;)

Here's another word: FUCK how has this word not made it? It's versatile and just f-l-o-w-s.

Fucking fuckkity fuck fuck... just love it.

Oh great, now you are getting the geeks here all excited.

[Bonegavel]

You're just buttering me up so I can sign up for your game aren't ya? ;)

Here's another word: FUCK how has this word not made it? It's versatile and just f-l-o-w-s.

Fucking fuckkity fuck fuck... just love it.

I didn't think of 'fuck' because I use it as often as 'a', 'and', and 'the.' :)

[Suburban Rhythm]

Chisenbop

[Crim]

archipelago

[Desnudo]

peninsula

[weegeebored]

craptastic

shmoopie

[Crim]

Pumpy

[Desnudo]

malfeasance

[NoMyths]

vesper

[korme]

rendezvous

assjockey

[ntndeacon]

A couple of my favorites has of yet not been said...

ilk----This is perhaps my most favoritest word EVER!... i use it rather often

Thrice is another that makes me all happy to say.

Jocular

[Milton]

milquetoast

cocksucker

[Young Drachma]

Great thread.

I love learning new words and using them in conversation. Problem is, you have to be careful doing that, because there isn't a real point if no one knows what the hell you're talking about and once you get into the habit of using uncommon words (that are say, better for writing than for speaking), it becomes second nature.

[Bad-example]

noggin

[Young Drachma]

Wordie (http://wordie.org)

[st.cronin]

pudding

[Groundhog]

Corupulent.

Yes, I know it doesn't exist, but I put it in a creative writing task by mistake back in my last year of high school, and the teacher obviously didn't realise, even putting a 'tick' next to the word, meaning extra credit.

Me and my buddies use it all the time now. We envision it as a mix of corpulent and corrupt.

[ThunderingHERD]

cocksucker

I prefer "dicksucker". Cocksucker has really lost a lot of its lascivious cachet--swap out cock for dick and you get people thinkin' again.

[Buccaneer]

Just reading Coug's dynasty, I am reminded of the coolest sounding placename in the history of the world

Corregidor

[sterlingice]

Missed this thread the first time around. Good stuff.

SI

[stevew]

Taze(or Taser)

[CU Tiger]

Taze(or Taser)


As in "Don't taze me, bro! Don't taze me!"

My favorite word has to be "panties" when spoken by a nice feminine voice...

For the antithesis, it has to be irregardless.
I wanna slap the user everytime.

[Lorena]

pudding

Love this word pronounced with a southern accent: puddin'

[Bad-example]

Opaque
Skewer
Groovy (ever since seeing Army of Darkness)

[ColtCrazy]

behoove. I use it with my 5th graders all the time. plethora is another one I like.