The Word you Love :D

Zoombie · Aug 7, 2007

So...what word do you really love, but you can never find a good place to put it?

I'll start:

Exsanguinated: It means to be drained of all blood and guess what, I've only managed to use it once. ONCE! In over 10 unpublished novels and a whole lot of words, I've only used this word once. And, the odd thing is...two of those unpublished novels have vampires. And yet, no exsanguinated. Shame, isn't it?

Ironical: The fact that this word was both recognized by my spell checker AND used by Malcolm Reynolds means it's great on general principles. But I've never managed to find a really good place to put it, other than a few places here and there.

Now, share some of your favorite, least used words that are awesome and cool.

leenakincaid · Aug 7, 2007

Ambiguity. To be ambiguous is to be vague.

I have three unpublished manuscripts and have not been able to put the word in a single one.

Shady Lane · Aug 7, 2007

My favorite word is epiphany, and I use it whenever possible.

I also like hesternal. It means, "having to do with yesterday."

RLB · Aug 7, 2007

Anything with the prefix "be"

bemused
befuddled
bespectacled
beleaguered

You can only get away with them every so often...

JoNightshade · Aug 7, 2007

Anachronism, archipelago, and archetype are my three favorite words. I have used anachronism at least once in my current WIP. I'm sure I must have slipped archetype in somewhere. But so far, no archipelago. Hmm, I will have to give some thought to that.

I also like epiphany, Shady.

Zoombie · Aug 7, 2007

Epiphany is good.

Oh, and I almost never get to use Charlatan and Scoundrel...or Ninnyhammer.

reenkam · Aug 7, 2007

virtuoso

abecedarian - having to do with the alphabet

laceration (you'd think I could use this, but it always sounds kind of overdone...)

mscelina · Aug 7, 2007

defenestration. Although I kill a hella lot of Elves, I've yet to pitch one out the window. The only writer who's used defenestration that I have read is David Eddings--and he used it twice (along with defenestrator and defenestrated)

I also love the word solicitous, but when I've tried to use it it sounds pretentious.

Xx|e|ph|e|me|r|al|xX · Aug 8, 2007

Xx|Ethereal - Exquisite, airy, or heavenly
I love it. :tongue

Rarely use it. Though on occasion. If I use it too much, though, it takes away from it's unique beauty.

Evanescent - Fleeting
I love this, too. Such a pretty ring to it. :3

And on about the same lines...

Ephemeral - take a shot in the dark :tongue

Yet I've yet to use it in any story context.

Exuviae - fancy word for shed. I like the sound/look of it

Endear and its various forms (endearment, endearingly) - just sweet.

Endcues - last words of a transmission, phrased to indicate that its about to end. I'm writing the endcues of my novel right now!--example. I wish...XD I just like the sound...

Encyclopaedism - Extensive knowledge. (I'll probably use it like... Alfie's encyclopaedism never ceased to astound me.)

And others. These are the ones I can think of/find for now. :tongue

|xX

Dave.C.Robinson · Aug 8, 2007

Defenestration is also one of my favorites, as is yclept (means named or called).

heyjude · Aug 8, 2007

Ignonimous

NeuroFizz · Aug 8, 2007

End (The).

Enraptured · Aug 8, 2007

I've got a bunch of words just waiting for their chance to be used in a story

I did manage to use "decompensation" in my current novel, which made me happy. I'm still searching for a place to use "apotheosis."

aadams73 · Aug 8, 2007

Dingleberry. Yes, I used it in the first chapter of my WIP.

Azure Skye · Aug 8, 2007

RLB said:
Anything with the prefix "be"

bemused
befuddled
bespectacled
beleaguered

You can only get away with them every so often...

I used bespectacled in my first chapter. Woohooo!!!

Ahem.

For me, the word is obfuscate.

JohnDavidPaxton · Aug 8, 2007

Obsequious or Shibboleth.

I have a character that says both before his throat is ripped out.

Namatu · Aug 8, 2007

Azure Skye said:
For me, the word is obfuscate.

I love obfuscate, obfuscation, and all variations thereof. Only used it once.

Alacrity.
Egregious.
Chary.

WordGypsy · Aug 8, 2007

Asunder. I LOVE that word. And stentorian which means loud. I'm actually thinking about getting stentorian as a tattoo. I'm loud

Devil Ledbetter · Aug 8, 2007

Sinusoidal.

ccarver30 · Aug 8, 2007

I don't know most of the words in this post.

JBI · Aug 8, 2007

Ever since reading Hedda Gabler by Ibsen I have been hooked on 'extraordinary'.

RRK · Aug 8, 2007

I'm a fan of defenestration as well...but since the buildings in my WIP are mostly single-story or underground, it's kind of hard to use...

I'm also a fan of lascivious, which doesn't go well with the tone of my WIP. I just think it sounds cool.

Summonere · Aug 8, 2007

Horripilation. Man, dig that word. Haven't used it yet in a story, but I'm gunna. Someday.

Also like excoriate, but I use that enough in casual conversation, anyway, that using it in fiction will prove merely incidental.

Chicanery is good, and hornswoggle, and I'm pretty sure I haven't used them much, if at all, in stories.

Among invented words, I sure like thingamadoohickeybob.

Spiny Norman · Aug 8, 2007

Dave.C.Robinson said:
Defenestration is also one of my favorites, as is yclept (means named or called).

I have a character who provides "defenestrate" as a solution to a crossword, and none of the other characters believe it's real.

Also, isn't yclept Middle English? Does that count?

Azure Skye · Aug 8, 2007

Discombobulate is another one.

The Word you Love :D

Dragon of the Multiverse

my name is hannah

bundled

has finally arrived

Dragon of the Multiverse

aka cupcake

Teh doommobile, drivin' rite by you

Bored Fanatic

... with the High Command

Making my own sunshine

The grad students did it

Narrator

A Work in Progress

Huh?

Lost in mental space.

Come on you stranger, you legend,

Nicole Castro

I named the dog Indiana

Huh?