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Title: Best. Word. Ever.
Post by: sceneTK421 on January 03, 2011, 10:51:20 PM
So what is it?

What is your favorite word?

I am doing something interesting with words in a project I'm working on and would like some insight.

To start it off, my brother's favorite: onomatopoeia


 
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Post by: dhalagirl on January 04, 2011, 08:08:47 AM
My favorite word is defenestration. 
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Post by: sceneTK421 on January 05, 2011, 06:42:04 AM
Great word, dhalagirl.
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Post by: daranthered on January 10, 2011, 07:46:02 PM
My favorite descriptive word is gelatinous.
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Post by: RavenstarRHJF on January 12, 2011, 04:37:57 AM
I humbly submit verbiage.
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Post by: Silk on January 20, 2011, 06:47:23 PM
I have encountered the word contumelious for the first time. There aren't many words that I have to look up in a dictionary.
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Post by: RDDK on January 25, 2011, 01:15:23 PM
Fantasticate
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Post by: Silk on January 25, 2011, 07:20:18 PM
Fungible.

(Am I allowed to submit two?)
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Post by: hubay on January 26, 2011, 06:23:35 PM
Similar to Ravenstar: verbosity. or perhaps loquacious

I like to talk to people about how much one of us is talking.
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Post by: Ipood on February 05, 2011, 10:57:02 PM
Wizard.
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Post by: dhalagirl on February 06, 2011, 02:14:29 AM
I'm surprised that no one has mentioned antidisestablishmentarianism yet.  Heck, I'm surprised I remembered how to spell it!
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Post by: Silk on February 06, 2011, 09:39:28 AM
Discombobulation. Circumlocution.
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Post by: Meanas on March 19, 2011, 06:57:31 AM
Pontificate. Obviously ;)
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Post by: Juan Dolor on March 19, 2011, 03:28:27 PM
Borracho, which means drunk in Spanish.  So much fun to say.
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Post by: DeannaK on March 30, 2011, 11:41:34 PM
Hi! Newbie here.  Thought I'd chime in with my favorite word ever: hyperbole.  Makes me want to drink coffee and throw a big heavy ball at some white things.
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Post by: Wolle on April 15, 2011, 04:29:36 PM
Orangutan is my favorite word in any language (with the possible exception of pickelhaube).
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Post by: Juan Dolor on April 15, 2011, 10:45:55 PM
What's a pickelhaube?
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Post by: Wolle on April 18, 2011, 11:29:14 AM
What's a pickelhaube?
This:
(http://www.jamesfinngarner.com/images/blogimages/Pickelhaube.JPG)
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Post by: Juan Dolor on April 18, 2011, 03:24:07 PM
Not only is that a good word, that is a funny thing.
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Post by: RDDK on April 18, 2011, 03:53:50 PM
Fantasticate
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Post by: Meanas on May 23, 2011, 08:17:41 AM
Fantasticate has already been said.
Not that there is anything wrong with it, it is a pretty awesome word.

I pick CHEESE

(My brother is saying egad. I'm not sure if he's surprised, or if he is trying to submit it)
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Post by: Shiael on May 24, 2011, 12:13:49 AM
Flaccid. i love the two c's. or dweomer. that just flat out looks wierd. sigh. there are just too many out there :)
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Post by: beccentric on May 25, 2011, 02:09:40 AM
Fantasticate has already been said.
Not that there is anything wrong with it, it is a pretty awesome word.

I pick CHEESE

(My brother is saying egad. I'm not sure if he's surprised, or if he is trying to submit it)

Perhaps he's being economical with his words, and doing both simultaneously?

Ooh, simultaneously. I like that word. At the risk of sounding morbid, though, my favourite word is probably anguish. I just love the sound of it, particularly the "gwish" bit at the end. Hubris is another of my favourites, but I blame that on classical civilisation A-level.
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Post by: dhalagirl on May 25, 2011, 05:57:14 AM
Flaccid. i love the two c's. or dweomer. that just flat out looks wierd. sigh. there are just too many out there :)

I love that word too.

The other day one of the gals in my writing group described one of my characters as creepertastic.  I like this word too.
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Post by: Inkthinker on May 31, 2011, 05:01:00 AM
honorificabilitudinitas

"the state of being able to achieve honors".

floccinaucinihilipilificatious

"small or insignificant". Also the longest word in the English language.
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Post by: dhalagirl on May 31, 2011, 06:30:45 AM
floccinaucinihilipilificatious

"small or insignificant". Also the longest word in the English language.


Wow!  That's longer than a Polish surname!
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Post by: fardawg on June 02, 2011, 12:21:01 PM
Albuquerque. Just make sure to take a LEFT turn.  http://tinyurl.com/3rvkyn
 Especially if you hate sauerkraut http://tinyurl.com/3gphhgg
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Post by: Jason R. Peters on June 11, 2011, 03:19:40 AM
My favorite word ever of all time is:

Non-contradiction

On my WoW hunter, my first three pets were named

Anathema
Antithesis
Apotheosis

All good ones.
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Post by: mtbikemom on June 11, 2011, 09:07:09 PM
susurration

Blame that on Terry Pratchett.

I'm now in love with Albequerqe, anathema, egad and borracho with the proper rolling of the double-r's.  Great words.  I'll work on a sentence using all those words unless someone else beats me to it. . . .
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Post by: Peter Ahlstrom on June 11, 2011, 10:49:14 PM
I tried to play senesce in Words with Friends the other day and it wouldn't take it. Made me mad.
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Post by: mtbikemom on June 12, 2011, 02:18:59 AM
Egad!  In Albequerqe, it is anathema for such things to occur to such a one as Peter, who has no doubt never been completely borracho.  At least not on record, the susurration of which would make its way to the BIG CHEESE himself. 

Two sentences, I know, but I added another great word.

Susurration might have come from Lemony Snickett.  But I would rather it had been a Tiffany Aching thought bubble. 

Another awesome word: quixotic
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Post by: Silk on June 19, 2011, 11:45:08 PM
Septuagenarian is pretty awesome.
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Post by: Shiael on June 27, 2011, 05:03:12 AM
my friends that are not on twg favs: blind and precipice. don't ask me why.
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Post by: yoringel on July 08, 2011, 05:09:03 PM
this is my first post in this forum , so hallo to everyone ;) !
words i love  (can i write three?):

gobbledegook  and
chutzpah  oh and
humbug
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Post by: whynaut on July 20, 2011, 05:51:43 PM
bombastic
garrulous
lemniscate