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Shockingly Cool Words
« on: May 29, 2009, 09:38:23 AM »
I just thought I'd make a topic for all those people who look at a word--maybe it's a new word, maybe it's a word they haven't used in a while--and step back, thinking, "Hey, that's a pretty cool word."

I'll start. The word is "artifice". It has a nice sound to it.
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« Reply #1 on: May 29, 2009, 12:20:09 PM »
Ooh, I've got one! "Behooves"
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Re: Shockingly Cool Words
« Reply #2 on: May 29, 2009, 08:52:47 PM »
lesee, off the top of my head: serendipitous, avant-garde, vehemence
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« Reply #3 on: May 29, 2009, 11:07:16 PM »
I'll say truculent.
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Re: Shockingly Cool Words
« Reply #4 on: May 30, 2009, 04:43:07 AM »
I shall give credit to miyabi for reminding me of this one, but onomatopoeia.  (for those who are confused or, like me, need to google it, it's the words that represent sounds such as crash, boom, bang, buzz, meow, ect)
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"The custom of royalty in referring to oneself is to naturally employ the royal 'we'.  We are very happy, we are very sad, we are bored and suffer from ennui.  For a royal prince there's no such word as 'me', It's always 'we'.  So rightfully I should be two or three, don't you agree?"

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Re: Shockingly Cool Words
« Reply #5 on: May 30, 2009, 06:48:52 AM »
Translucence
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Re: Shockingly Cool Words
« Reply #6 on: May 30, 2009, 10:11:16 PM »
This next one isn't merely a cool word, it is one of my all time favorites: quintessence. I don't get to use it that often, but simply the sound of it is pure awesome.
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Re: Shockingly Cool Words
« Reply #7 on: May 30, 2009, 11:08:50 PM »
apt

obtuse

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Re: Shockingly Cool Words
« Reply #8 on: May 31, 2009, 09:26:33 PM »
Je ne sais quoi, asymptote, brouhaha, sarcophagus, plateau.
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Re: Shockingly Cool Words
« Reply #9 on: June 01, 2009, 09:57:54 PM »
Hubris, existential, magnanimous
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Re: Shockingly Cool Words
« Reply #10 on: June 01, 2009, 10:01:01 PM »
Juxtaposition, lupine, feline, emerald, kayak.
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Re: Shockingly Cool Words
« Reply #11 on: June 01, 2009, 10:46:55 PM »
Proprioception. Cool word and cool sense. We'd be quite handicapped without it.
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Re: Shockingly Cool Words
« Reply #12 on: June 01, 2009, 11:18:02 PM »
Why'll we're on that topic, I'll just put up equilibrioception, too. Nice sound.  ;D
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Re: Shockingly Cool Words
« Reply #13 on: June 02, 2009, 06:04:57 AM »
I can't freaking find this to check my spelling but oblicatory is freaking awesome to say (a form of obligation.

ie "And of course you have the oblicatory questions about spices in there")
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Re: Shockingly Cool Words
« Reply #14 on: June 02, 2009, 06:45:07 AM »
I think you mean "obligatory", because I've never heard of "oblicatory", but I can't ever be 100% sure.
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