While my main love is for the stories and sometimes the characters, I have to appreciate the words themselves. Here are a few of my favourites (usually just because of the sound of them), although I haven't always had the chance to squeeze them in naturally.
I was going to provide the definitions in this post, but that might be a little long. As it is, I'm only posting a small portion of my saved words.
spangled brown study apoplectic
etiolated fomite larrup
bespatter torrefy divulse
boffin catawampus ravelment
wowser erubescent cunctation
skylark mantic agnate
asseverate hoary chockablock
impecunious aureate abstergent
nidus melismatic mumpsimus
foofaraw overslaugh sumpsimus
lucubration nervure aliquant
coffle skirr hypethral
malapert bosh deflagrate
incondite hew orectic
So, what are your thoughts? Have any words of your own that have never quite fit in a scene, or are a little too rare for the common reader (and often spellcheck)?
Wow, those are pretty unique! I don't even know the meaning of most of them. I can't think of any words I particularly like at the moment, I just use whatever seems to fit ... although when I was about, oh, 12 or so, I had a brief obsession with the words 'radiant,' 'brilliant,' and 'dazzling' and would try to use one per page. XD
ReplyDeleteThese are (almost) all from Word of the Day emails/apps, actually.
DeleteI had actually been wanting to use "exudate" for a long time before I finally had a chance to slip it in.
That's amazing. You should have written a lot of Rock Lee fan fiction. :P
Which story did you use exudate in?
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Btw, if you're wondering about TLWR, don't worry, I did read it, it's just taking me a while to find the time I want to dedicate to writing a review.