Haha:

 

KS Says--I admire this list of words. very well done. You only missed one word, and it happens to be my favorite: crestfallen.

 

Jack Popjes responds--Crestfallen, yes that is my favourite too–each time I drop my tube of toothpaste.

My favorite word would be Flummoxed, not for it’s beauty, but for the ability to be what it describes

I wish ‘superfluous’ was on this list. I think it just rolls off the tongue.

I’m not alone!

 

What a delight to learn there are others who enjoy & appreciate words for their own sake. I know not a single soul – friend or kin – who does. And I’m tired of explaining that etymology has nothing to do with bugs.

 

Stephanie is right: if my favorite made the list (diaphanous) – then so should ‘superfluous’…it’s just as fabulous.

 

Edited December 29, 201114 yr by mmeeshal

I’m quite a fan of the missing “Lackadaisical”, but otherwise find this to be a fantastic list.

Terpsichorean – relating to dancing

Defenestrate – throwing someone/something out of a window

My favorite word would be Flummoxed, not for it’s beauty, but for the ability to be what it describes

 

Good word to say :)

 

Along with superfluous.

I knew serendipity was going to be on there! But what about soliloquy?

I’m rather partial to ‘shibboleth’ … Like stumbling over soft consonants …

What about Zephyr: a gentle breeze; one of my all time favourites.

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Just to add to the list… I’m quite fond of the word “lachrymose” myself. And I know one of my friends just loves “saccharine.”

I particularly enjoy effluance, for the contrast betwixt meaning and sound, and crepuscular, that there can even exist a word which describes such a beautiful thing so beautifully.

Reading this aloud is the aural equivalent of eating good chocolate. Glad to see imbroglio and insouciance, but how can frisson (little shiver of pleasure) be overlooked?

I would nominate ‘Pipistrelle’ – a common British bat – which to my mind is onomatopoeic of a bat swooping around in the dusk.

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I like ‘zymurgy’ fermation process in brewing. Not only to say out loud but because it’s a lonely forgotten word at the end of the dictionary!

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I really miss the word “velocity” on this list

‘ Antidisestablishmentarianism ‘

‘Discombobulate’ – to be put at sixes and sevens, like a giddy kipper..

 

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Edited December 29, 201114 yr by mmeeshal

Just for the pleasure of saying it I love ‘ ‘Spillikins’ (a game also known as ‘Jackstraws’ where you remove a thin stick from the pile of others without disturbing the rest of the pile.. . . good game too!)

I quite like idiosyncrasy

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‘Gallimaufry’

 

and

 

‘lugubrious’

 

Two splendidly delicious words.