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Favorite Words

Dean

Ah this is always fun: Paul Burgess lists some of his favorite words. I like them all.

Some of my favorite words:

"fluoresce"

"impregnate"

"fulminate"

"eschew"

"fantabulous" (a wonderful neologism)

"bombastic"

"skew"

"ontogeny"

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Sean Golden (mail) (www):

Words I like because virtually everyone misunderstands them and tries to use them anyway:

penultimate

decimated

canonical

bifurcated

quantum leap

byzantine

onerous

12.30.2005 1:21pm

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Alan at TYL (www):

One of my all-time favorite words:

vituperative

I've also always enjoyed:

ninny, ballyhoo and fulgurate

12.30.2005 1:34pm

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JoetheFarmer (mail):

Micturate.

12.30.2005 2:02pm

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Laura (www):

Some of my favorites are:

omnibus

epistemological

contingent

isomorphism

12.30.2005 2:03pm

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cardeblu (mail):

Combined favorite words:
veritable cornucopia

From the medical front:
medulla oblongata
amygdala
labyrinthine

12.30.2005 2:31pm

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jlb (www):

Billowy
Superfluous
Silvern
Lunar
Asymptotic

>^..^<

12.30.2005 2:39pm

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Robert B.:

feckless?

12.30.2005 3:08pm

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davedief (mail):

perspicacious

mellifluous (because I always have to say this slowly the rare times I use it)

alluvial

12.30.2005 3:09pm

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Alan at TYL (www):

If we're going with medical terms, my favorite has to be:

Munchausen by Proxy

Horrible thing, funny name.

12.30.2005 4:27pm

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MaryJ:

Oh my, well due to my kids and the kid in me?

Hands Down, the favorite word is,
SUPERCALIFRAGILISTICEXPIALIDOCIORIS!

Chim Chim Cher ee, which I like to use in a gretting when I meet new folks.

When I meet a really cute fella that I get a crush on? I get all...TWITTER PAINTED!

Oh and the *Hardihood* at which I take up new hobbies and such.

jib...ahh yes, billowy! That would be a billowy day in Winnie the Poo's land!

Briny stone

Tom foolery.

12.30.2005 4:54pm

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MaryJ:

ious (above)

12.30.2005 5:28pm

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Nicholas V. (mail) (www):

I prefer to eschew the use of fantabulous words like these; it tends to skew my statements towards the bombastic and impinge upon my ability to fulminate when I impregnate my sentences with such flourescent prose in a way that labours the ontogeny of my thoughts as they are born from my mind.

12.30.2005 7:16pm

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Teri:

antepenultimate

Heehee!

12.30.2005 9:11pm

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B. Durbin (www):

defenestrate
to throw something or someone out of a window
and
transfenestrate
which is the same thing, except you don't bother to open the window first.

12.31.2005 10:31pm