Effervescent, curmudgeon, bodacious... Aah, words

Having just read the word "ghastly" and felt a wave of pleasure, I started thinking about how magnificent "mere" words are. It's fascinating how a single word can conjure a memory, sensation, mood...

How about some more? In no particular order, and most certainly incomplete, here is a list of words that, at this moment, make me feel all cozy just to hear them. Note: not necessarily for their meanings. For example, I certainly don't want to feel ghastly. But the word itself - hearing it spoken, recalling the fascinating accents I've heard use it, amusing myself at the memory of the exaggerated way people sometimes stretch it out when they say it... yea, I do enjoy this word!

To continue:

• amuck. Or amok. I'm told they're both correct. One time I heard a 12 year old boy, running through a yard with flocks of other children running behind him, call out "I am running amuck!" Cracked me up...
• translucent
• discombobulated
• Neanderthal
• spanikopita
• rapport
• curmudgeon
• extraneous
• succulent
• circumlocutious
• articulate
• wonky
• bodacious
• effervescent
• epiphany
• nostalgia
• tertiary
• aesthetic
• serendipity
• butternut

Better stop there. I have work to do. Ah but wasn't that fun?!

Oh. And if you were looking for something a little more, er, highbrow, here you are: from the LA Times.

What about you? Do you have a favorite word? Care to share??? I'd love it if you did...it'd surely make my list much better!

Comments

[Margot]

Egregious
Circuitous
Lackadaisical
Exaggeration
Aspersions
Monotonous
Gazebo
Kumquat
Pistachio
Fortuitous
Miscellaneous
Milieu

[Melody]

Oh, you're good. Those words definitely belong on this list. At this moment, most especially "kumquat." Heh. Kumquat.

[Nathan]

Bludgeon

Wasn't that the word I used? Can't remember the context of our conversation now.

:)

[Melody]

Bludgeon. Such a violent word. No woman ever conceived of that word, I'm convinced...

I can't recall the context either, but okay, you can add it to the list. :)

[Carolyn]

grace

palimpset

twilight

[Melody]

Nice, thank you! (I had to look up that second one. Very cool...)