My favorite words

Top drawer

• coquettish
• fettle
• giglet
• fetch
• smarmy
• transmogrify
• frenetic
• squelch
• trounce
• lissom
• persnickety
• milquetoast
• guff
• columnar
• copacetic
• tomfoolery
• toothsome
• scintillating
• bask
• bristle
• dentifrice
• vehement
• rococo
• bouillabaisse
• cloying
• erstwhile
• excelsior
• brisk
• glandular
• clusterfuck
• blunderbuss
• lugubrious
• debacle
• catachresis
• cadre
• mire
• rodomontade
• turpitude
• spelunking
• pernicious
• screed
• risable
• Spiraea
• Illustrious
• Marmon
• Dulcitude
• Pomander
• Christingle
• Fusiform
• Pelagic
• quincunx

Words to look up

• Scree
• Chedis
• Inflorescence
• Bulbul
• Bole
• Joss
• Khlong boat
• Denuded
• Lintel
• Riparian
• Cambium
• Copse
• Cupule
• Myrtle
• Animist
• Duff
• Culvert
• Understory
• Ramets
• Sere
• Baize
• Cloche

Words I don’t like

• succulent
• clotted
• pinochle
• maize
• trite
• groundbreaking
• tufted
• staffer
• caucasian
• woot
• keister
• druthers
• sleeps
• whiff
• quaff
• freshet
• vacay
• taffy
• crampon
• hubby
• momentarily
• peephole
• soap scum
• pee
• tumbler
• supper
• knapsack
• winningest
• schmear
• frickin
• taut
• bugaboo
• toes
• crisp

Words with very specific meanings

• vigesimation
• zenzizenzizenzic
• velleity
• synechthry
• gossypiboma
• spoonerism
• hypnopomp
• pangram
• ambigram
• sycophant
• scrumping
• illeism
• callipygian
• petrichor
• tmesis
• mallemaroking
• apophasis
• sororate
• solfege
• palimpsest
• levirate
• glabella
• petrichor
• aglet
• wamble
• vagitus
• phosphenes
• overmorrow
• minimus
• agraffe
• vocables
• armscye
• griffonage
• tittle

Hilarious Portmanteaus

• cankle
• untrystworthy
• slimerick
• flavorite
• relationchips
• malamanteau
• breastaurants
• moped
• frenemy
• franglais
• stagflation
• netiquette
• pastafarian
• brunch
• palimony
• chillax
• frostitute
• bracist
• funderwear
• irrelephant
• islamunism
• staycation
• bromosapiens
• showmance
• killerotica
• recessionista
• slumlord
• fungineer
• mintendo
• sexcapades
• ridonkulous
• cumpilation
• brobot
• fucktard
• japanimation
• jargonaut
• infotainment
• beefalo
• glitterati
• slitch
• thinspiration
• mentertaining

Hackneyed expressions in three words

• GTD
• abundance of caution
• it is what it is
• open the kimono
• look no further
• mind the gap
• steep learning curve
• could care less
• fit for purpose
• to your point
• too much information
• don’t go there
• yadda yadda yadda
• long story short
• drink the kool-aid
• wait and see
• having said that
• i’d hit that
• hearth and home
• call the shots
• shoot the messenger
• pay the piper
• shit a brick
• stop the madness
• see your way
• find the time
• lend an ear
• crack the books
• spare a dime
• pump and dump
• seize the day
• slice and dice
• give and take
• sturm und drang
• front and center
• cap and trade
• kiss and tell
• life imitates art
• daylight savings time
• blah, blah, blah
• papa knows best
• case in point
• boy meets girl
• down with that
• que será será
• come what may
• war is hell
• pimp my ride
• bend the truth
• wine and dine
• pride and joy
• leaps and bounds
• kit and kaboodle
• heart and soul
• flesh and blood
• down and out
• i’ll be damned
• wouldn’t you know
• we’re moving forward
• hale and hearty
• safe and sound
• poetry in motion
• surely you jest
• what have you
• never you mind
• to die for
• beg to differ
• down to earth
• needless to say
• that being said
• push the envelope
• win-win situation
• all that jazz
• by and large
• second to none
• outside the box

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