People often talk about bad words. Not bad as in shit or fuck or otherwise but bad as in horrible, send shivers up your spine, please-never-say-that-again words moist, orifice, yeast, chunk, congeal and the like. We don’t though; often talk much of the good words. The words that have great meanings and great sounds, the words that roll of your tongue like turpentine (thanks Miranda Lambert).
I think about this often I don’t know why, maybe I’m weird? But as a result I have many of these words; in fact words may be one of the only things that I like more than don’t. Currently I have 14 favourite words, wanna know what they are?
Duh, Of course you do!
Affliction
noun. a cause of pain or harm.
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Benevolent
adjective. well meaning and kindly.
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Enigma (number one favourite word)
Ethereal
adjective. extremely delicate and light in a way that seems not to be of this world.
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Ephemeral
adjective. lasting for a very short time.
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Evanescent
adjective. soon passing out of sight, memory, or existence; quickly fading or disappearing.
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Iconoclastic
adjective. criticizing or attacking cherished beliefs or institutions.
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Inexplicable
adjective. unable to be explained or accounted for.
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Machiavellian
adjective. cunning, scheming, and unscrupulous, especially in politics.
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Maleficence
noun. doing or causing evil.
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Nonplus
noun. a state of being very surprised and confused.
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Phenomenon
noun. a fact or situation that is observed to exist or happen, especially one whose cause or explanation is in question.
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Serendipity
noun. the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way.
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Whimsy
noun. playfully quaint or fanciful behaviour or humour.
Damn words are cool.
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Lucy Korn
