Conquer Club

What are your favourite words?

I like calliope - it sounds pleasant and is equally pleasant to pronounce. It also conjures up nice, colourful images of a yesteryear that may never have existed.



Just saying calliope takes me on a magical journey of my imagination to Knott's Berry Farm.

cornucopia

skunk

saxitoxin wrote:cornucopia

I was just talking about this word yesterday.

Hemoglobin.

-rd

Gusset.
The word, not the thing. It sounds so icky.

bubble

such a cool word...bubble...

sesquipedalian

serendipity

-rd

parangaricutirimicuaro

Butthole.

Rustic
Algorithm
Perpetual
Inevitable
Melodic
Systematic
Noumenon
Rage
Totalitarianism
Vermilion

Paradigm

ManBungalow wrote:

But I only have 1 Dime

Also: penultimate

-rd

InkL0sed wrote:Butthole.

write a poem

now

I've learned a lot of new words in this thread.

saxitoxin wrote:I've learned a lot of new words in this thread.

Okay.

rdsrds2120 wrote:Also: penultimate

-rd

Prefer: antepenultimate. Just not as final.

Neoteny, obviously.

cachejob wrote:sesquipedalian

this

Also, in no particular order, mostly based purely on how the words feel in your mouth when you pronounce them:

Collaboration
Magnanimous
Disingenuous
Electrophile
Decimate
Percentile
Camshaft
Troglodyte
Equivocation
Regicide
Ossuary
Nexus
Genderfluid
Psychosomatic
Velociraptor
Ablution
Asphyxiation
Vanguard
Eccentric
Indistinguishable
Dominatrix
Geminate
Frivolous
Allotrope

I have 2 favorite words.

'Vexed' - In the sense of 'feeling tossed about, as if by waves'

'Junk' - I just love the sound and look of the word, and I'll often use it endearingly, like 'Hey Junk, how are you?'


--Andy

cacophony

Amphoterism.

ManBungalow wrote:Am-fo'-terrorism.

But why? Why are you for terrorism?

maelstrom.

-rd

rdsrds2120 wrote:male's-tongue

wat