List of good words!

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Share words you like!

  • Rankle
  • Austere
  • Lash of guilt
  • Penumbra
  • Maledicent
  • Viscid
  • Lilt
  • Attenuate
  • Lissom
  • Ephemeral
  • Oneiric
  • Lavender
  • Esprit
  • Lost ephemera
  • Vast expanses
  • Simulacrum
  • Torpor
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  • Bifurcated!
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Anemone :white_flower:

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Bounce.

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Bonk

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  • trepidation
  • antimony
  • plinth
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  • Replica
  • Cognizance
  • Info hazard
  • Expunged
  • Memetic hazard
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At last, that list on my phone titled “Archaic & Uncommon Words” finally found its use!

Here you go:

  • agog
  • aplomb
  • ataraxia
  • betwixt
  • blotto
  • crepuscular
  • cromulent
  • cruciverbalist
  • debonaire
  • eidolon
  • ensorcel
  • hither and yon
  • intellectual edifice
  • labyrinthine
  • mirthful
  • nonchalance
  • perambulate
  • pernickety
  • pizzazz
  • rapscallion
  • saturnine
  • soupçon
  • tchotchkes
  • turpitude
  • woebegoneness
  • yonks
  • zilch

Have some German ones, too:

  • blĂĽmerant (queasy)
  • despektierlich (contemptuous)
  • dienstbeflissen (solicitous)
  • erklecklich (considerable)
  • frappierend (astonishing, striking)
  • liederlich (wanton, dissolute)
  • pittoresk (picturesque)
  • ĂĽbervorteilen (to take advantage of, to outsmart)
  • unbeseelt (inanimate)
  • verbrämt (gilded, embellished)
  • wesensverschieden (different on a fundamental level)
  • wohlfeil (inexpensive)
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I love the word

requiem

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Oh, I really love that you decided to include some German ones too! I’m trying to pick a favorite and while I want it to be a tossup between liederlich and wohfeil, frappierend just seems… really fun to say.

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  • valkyrie
  • douse
  • brawl
  • jello

Finnish ones:

  • tilpehööri (swedish loan word but just means “stuff”)
  • ankka (duck the animal)
  • simmu (kind of a slangy word for eye)
  • nahkiainen (lamprey)
  • piennar (shoulder of a road)
  • raide (rail)
  • valkea (white -ish)
  • aavistaa (to anticipate)
  • ummistaa (to “close” your eyes)
  • kanttuvei (to be done, tired, on the ground
  • ruska (color of autumn)
  • usva (mist)
  • sitruuna (lemon)
  • tötterö (cone)
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Shenaniganary
Adorkable (a word I use to describe my partner, Niki!)

I’ll update this when I think of more ^.^

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It’s crazy as a white bread American that such cool sounding diffrent languages can have suck plain names!

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Tuna

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This makes me think of the name “Aomame” from 1Q84.

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Some more English ones:

  • supreme
  • contraindicative
  • reification
  • glengarry
  • stupor
  • tuff

And some German ones:

  • Essigsäure (acetic acid)
  • Treu und Glauben (good faith in a legal context)
  • Blendwerk (a work of deception)
  • Siebenpfeiffer (name of a professor and journalist involved in the Hambach Festival)
  • Zeitlupe (slow motion, lit. “time magnifying glass”)
  • Schlund (maw)
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  • superfluous
  • atmospheric
  • suwi (toki pona for sweet/cute)
  • wanderlust

(a lot of my favs were already written by others, especially the original list lol)

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Speaking of anemome, I enjoy the word 'Cnidaria' which is the Phylum that anemone, corals, and sea jellies belong to. :coral:

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Also how could I forget:

  • tomboy

In another world my online handle might be tomboyrapscallion!

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What an amazing combo of words! inster fancy work to say your smart

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