What's your favourite word?

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Favorite Why? Because I love when I hear "Favourite" ;) You silly French/Canadian/and/or British child!

I love dialect! <3 :D
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Quintessential. I don't know why, but it get's me all the time.
Immaculate. It's one of those words that sound the way they mean.
Macabre: It's a weird word, don't you think? And I love the way it rolls off the tongue.
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Prolix: it means wordy. (The cool part is that the word is what it means)

Other words I like are the kind that aren't easily translatable into English.
Particularly this: Schadenfreude
It's German for the feeling of pleasure derived by seeing another’s misfortune.
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Fahrvergnügen
That German term means "driving enjoyment" in English (from fahren, "to drive," and Vergnügen, "enjoyment").
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Much like Lava, my favorite word, by definition, is
Lava wrote:Petrichor: The smell outside after it rains.
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I like "comfortable," but only because I can't say it correctly. It comes out all jumbled, like "comfort-able."

Naturally, I use it in casual conversation as much as possible.
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I like the word Bizarre. I like the way that it comes out of my mouth and how it ends like I'm making fun of a pirate then stop when I realize no one's laughing. -let the awkward, nervous laughter begin as unamused stares begin to land on me-
When people ask me, why are you so weird, I never know what to say. Then I think, why should I be like this when I can be like ttthhhiiiisss?




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Exsanguination - the action of draining a person, animal, or organ of blood; severe loss of blood.
Cadaver - corpse. (Also sounds like a great insult: "You're such a cadaver!")
Inordinate - unusually or disproportionately large; excessive
Éclaircissement - an enlightening explanation of something, typically someone's conduct, that has been hitherto inexplicable.
Lackadaisical - lacking enthusiasm and determination; carelessly lazy
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Shenanigans as mentioned already.
Miff[ed] -- annoy[ed].
Sensical -- made of sense!
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Obfuscating: obscure, unclear, confounding

Gekokujou: from Japanese - usurpation, overtaking of the higher- by the lower-ranked.
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Ambrosia. :] Have you ever heard an English boy say it? *awkward silence* No? . . .Never mind. ;]

Also, the word lithe. (able to move or bend the body lightly and gracefully) It just sounds -nice.

Scrupulous, because it sounds like a tasty pastry.

I also saw someone (I think it was ultraviolet) put down the word ethereal. I seem to use that a lot in my writing, which I find funny. I guess it's my real favorite.

Macabre and Nostalgia are two others I must repeat for my list. :]
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Problematique It's like a problem, but unlike a problem, it can't be solved. The problematique of us human beings for example is that we strive to achieve so much in life only to have it taken away when we die.

But that's not really my favorite word. It's just you were all posting big words so I decided to add to the throng. Haha.

My favorite word is

Destination I just think it's beautiful.:) I also like the word Fall.:D

I also like the word a. It's a good article, is it not?
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Well, for some reason I thought of pulchritudinous, which is ridiculous because I never use it.
Oy: It's usually an exclamation of annoyance or shock, but I just use it like "OK" or a greeting.
ellipsis: This is that ... you see every once in awhile. I really like this word because I hate just saying dot dot dot. And saying that something someone said is "elliptical" is also really fun.
Brace: usually works best with an exclamation point afterwards.
Breech: reminds me of that sound sneakers make on polished floor.
Detritus: somehow bits and pieces of useless things intrigue me
Indeed: Makes me feel faintly old-timey.
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Oh! Another one!

Awegreat. And to those poor unfortunate uneducated ones, it's a combination of awesome and great. And that was the first time I said awesome in a long, long time :o also I just said it again.
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