Many are everyday words. Some are not. Others are important concepts.
If you'd like to share some of your favorites on the list or ones not on it, please do so in the comments section.
The List:
Acknowledge
Analyze
Ars est celare artem.
Assertive
Assertive
Blossom
Buffoon
Claim
Claim
Claptrap
Clown
Clown
Clusterfuck
Connect
Context
Creepy
Creepy
Dig
Diverse
Divert
Elegant
Example
Exemplify
Fart
Fruitful
Fruitless
Glean
Grace
Grow
Hogwash
Horseshit
Huzzah
Insipid
Internal Motivation
Intuition
Jujitsu
Kibosh
Kook
Limpid
Lounge
Minnesota Summer
Myopic
Negate
Obtuse
Praise
Quell
Quench
Quiet
Rambunctious
Refute
Resilience
Rowdy
Seductive
Silence
Silly
Simmer
Simmer
Sophisticated
Soul Butter
Spark
Specious
Spunk
Staid
Stilted
Stout
Sully
Sully
Support
Tailor
Uff da
Upchuck
Upchuck
Whet
Wield
Winnow
Work Ethic
Yield
Zap
9 comments:
Hookah
Voluptuous
Chutzpah
tortious interference
Attractive nuisance
Blowhard
Noxious
Scion
Kook
Collard greens
Very nice, TG Dem.
Voluptuous is a great word. To go along with blowhard, I also like "windbag."
I looked up the definition for "clusterfuck" with some trepidation. I'd heard the term, but not in a context that made its meaning clear. It makes sense now. "Soul butter" is the big winner for me, though. I'll swap you "trepidation" for it. And throw in "penultimate," which has many household uses.
New winner: "defensive indifference." Sporting & computer lingo often demonstrate a particularly imaginative form of precision.
I'm not a fan of penultimate--one of those "college-sounding" words.
Trepidation is a good one. The sound of it matches the feeling it presents.
Then I won't have to share "antepenultimate" with you--but I think you're missing out.
Haberdasher, wainscotting, and (just to prove I don't only read English novels) irrational exuberance (remember?).
Babe, what are your thoughts on cognitive dissonance?
I love cognitive dissonance! I must love it, because it goes on in my brain all the time, and I couldn't possibly hate something that goes on in my brain all the time, right? (It's one of the only concepts I recall clearly from Intro Psych. Luckily it seems to account for a great deal of the utterly baffling ways human beings behave. Good thing I stayed awake for that class.)
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