Words, words everywhere and not a thing to say?
This is a collection of some of my favourite words that thrill me for some reason, be it spelling, sound, concept or rarity. It is too easy come off sounding a pretentious though if I use them in, so I hoard them here so they don’t fade away.
- Amateur
- Anodyne
- Anthrozoology
- Antidiluvian
- Apocryphal
- Apothegm
- Apotropaic
- Backronym
- Didactic
- Elides
- Eponymous
- Ersatz
- Erstwhile
- Erudite
- Esoteric
- Gordian knot
- Hypnagogia
- Kayfabe
- Kobayashi Maru
- Mensch
- Metonymic
- Nadir
- Namaste
- Neologism
- Nostrum
- Overton Window
- Pareidolia
- Peregrination
- Pleonasm
- Sartorial
- Schadenfreude
- Scofflaw
- Shibboleths
- Soupçon
- Vitiate