My word collection

I adopted a practice of noticing and collecting my favorite words as I read them, ones that had a pleasant mouth-feel, and ones that compelled me.

Many words I needed to look up, and still do. My understanding between words varies, understanding which grows as I notice the words more frequently.

Just noticing and taking note is sometimes enough to plant the seed of acquisition. Highlighted words are my favorite.


Dictionary that explains words practically.

  1. abate (subside)
  2. aberration
  3. abhor
  4. abject
  5. abscond
  6. absolution
  7. acerbic (sour and bitter)
  8. acquiesce
  9. acrid
  10. acrimonious
  11. acumen
  12. addled
  13. adjudicate
  14. adjunct
  15. admonish
  16. adulation (admiration)
  17. affable
  18. affinity
  19. affix(ing)
  20. afflict(ed)
  21. affront (insult)
  22. ambulate
  23. ameliorate
  24. amenable
  25. amicable
  26. ammend
  27. amoral
  28. amorous/ly
  29. amorphous
  30. anachronism
  31. androgyne
  32. antipathetic
  33. aplomb (poise)
  34. appendages
  35. ardent
  36. artifice
  37. ashen-faced
  38. asinine
  39. askew (of glasses)
  40. assent
  41. assuage
  42. audacity
  43. auspicious
  44. austere
  45. avolition (amotivation)
  46. awash
  47. banal/ity
  48. bated (breath)
  49. belie
  50. bellowing
  51. bereft
  52. besiege(d)
  53. besotted
  54. bewilder
  55. bifurcate
  56. bitter-tempered
  57. blasé
  58. bleary-eyed
  59. blithe
  60. brandish
  61. breath fanning
  62. breaths intermingled
  63. brevity
  64. bristle
  65. burgeoning
  66. cabal
  67. cacophonous
  68. cajole (sweet talk convincing)
  69. calcified anger
  70. callous
  71. cantankerous
  72. canter
  73. capitulate/ion (surrender, yield)
  74. catatonic
  75. caustic
  76. chary (cautious, wary)
  77. chaste
  78. churlish (vulgar)
  79. circumspection
  80. clandestine (secret)
  81. cocksure
  82. cogent
  83. cogitation
  84. coiled (of sunrays)
  85. commissary
  86. confection
  87. congenial
  88. conniption (rage, hysteria)
  89. consanguineous (blood-related)
  90. consternation
  91. constitution
  92. consummate (to complete)
  93. contrite (penitent)
  94. corrosive
  95. cull (slaughter/do off with the weak)
  96. cupidity (passionate or excessive desire)
  97. curtail
  98. dalliance
  99. debauched
  100. debonair
  101. debutante
  102. decadent
  103. deft
  104. degeneration
  105. delectation (delight)
  106. deleterious
  107. demagogue
  108. demarcation
  109. demonstrably/tive
  110. demoralize(d)
  111. demure
  112. denigrate
  113. derision/deride
  114. despondent
  115. despotic
  116. deuteragonist
  117. dexturous
  118. diminutive (illustrate tinyness; sometimes affectionate, sometimes disparaging)
  119. disarming
  120. discontinuity
  121. discordant (unpleasant sound)
  122. disingenuous
  123. dispassionate
  124. dispirited
  125. disposition
  126. disquiet/ude, unrest, (unease)
  127. dissemble
  128. disseminate, permeate
  129. distend (chest expanding)
  130. doily-skinned
  131. dotage
  132. drivel
  133. duplicitous (deceit)
  134. démodé
  135. edifying
  136. effete
  137. eldritch
  138. emblazoned
  139. emboldened
  140. embroil(ed)
  141. emphatic
  142. endemic
  143. enduring
  144. engender
  145. ennui
  146. enshrine
  147. enumerate
  148. epitaph
  149. equivocation
  150. erroneous
  151. erudite
  152. espouse
  153. eventuality
  154. exacting
  155. expeditious
  156. excise
  157. expunge
  158. extracate
  159. extrapolate
  160. exultant
  161. fallible
  162. fanfare
  163. "I'm a farce."
  164. faux pas
  165. feckless
  166. feeble
  167. feign
  168. ferment
  169. ferocity
  170. fervent
  171. fervor
  172. fester
  173. flagrant
  174. flay (criticize harshly)
  175. flush (adj; overfilling)
  176. fodder
  177. for perpetuity
  178. formidable
  179. fruitless
  180. fungible (of morality)
  181. furtive
  182. futile/futility
  183. gank (swindle, steal)
  184. gaunt
  185. generalize (results of a study)
  186. genial
  187. gestational (budding idea)
  188. ginned up
  189. gloaming (twilight, dusk)
  190. glomming on
  191. glower (angry stare)
  192. goad
  193. grok (understand)
  194. grouse
  195. guffaw(ing)
  196. hammy (Goro Akechi)
  197. having no sense of propriety
  198. histrionic
  199. hog wild
  200. hubris
  201. ichor
  202. ideate
  203. ilk
  204. immutable
  205. impart
  206. impertinent/ly
  207. impervious
  208. implacable
  209. impossibility
  210. impotent
  211. impudence
  212. inane (lacks substance)
  213. incandescent (shining bright, of smiles)
  214. incognizant
  215. incongruous
  216. iconography
  217. incorruptible
  218. inculcate (instill through repetition)
  219. incument
  220. indefensible
  221. indefinite (vague, undefined)
  222. indices
  223. indignant (anger at percieved injustice)
  224. indomitable
  225. ineptitude
  226. infeminine
  227. innumerable
  228. inscrutable
  229. insipid (dull and boring)
  230. insolence
  231. insouciant
  232. intangible
  233. interiority (being interior, private)
  234. interlocutor
  235. inundate
  236. inure
  237. invariably
  238. inviolable
  239. ire
  240. irreconsilable
  241. irreverant
  242. jovial
  243. keens (verb)
  244. keyed up
  245. knackered
  246. lachrymose
  247. lackadaisical
  248. laconic
  249. langorous
  250. languid
  251. lascivious (strong sexual desire)
  252. latent (present but inactive)
  253. lilting (of voice)
  254. liminal
  255. linger
  256. listless
  257. litany
  258. lithe
  259. livid
  260. loft (verb; hit high into air)
  261. loll back (recline)
  262. ludicrous
  263. lurid
  264. malaise
  265. malevolent
  266. maligned
  267. malingering
  268. masticate
  269. meander(ing)
  270. "messianic complex"
  271. mewl
  272. mien (manner, appearance of)
  273. miffed
  274. miffy (easily offended)
  275. milieu (environment)
  276. militant
  277. minutia
  278. mirth
  279. misanthrope
  280. miscreant
  281. misgivings (worry)
  282. moot
  283. motif
  284. mottled
  285. muddled
  286. mussed (hair)
  287. nebulous
  288. needling
  289. neg
  290. nix
  291. fidelity to the truth
  292. necrotic
  293. nominal
  294. nondescript (ordinary)
  295. noot (nothing)
  296. noxious
  297. obdurate (obstinate, unchanging)
  298. obstinate
  299. ogle
  300. on repose (mouth slightly open)
  301. ornery
  302. ostensibly
  303. overtures
  304. owlish (look)
  305. padding (walking)
  306. palatable
  307. pallor
  308. pariah
  309. pay due deference
  310. peevy/ish
  311. penitent (remorseful)
  312. peppery (easily annoyed)
  313. percussive
  314. perfunctory
  315. perjorative
  316. permutation
  317. perseverate
  318. perverse
  319. petulant
  320. peturbation
  321. phantasmic
  322. placate
  323. placcid
  324. plaintive
  325. platitude
  326. pliant
  327. plod
  328. ploy
  329. ply at someone (offer something)
  330. ponder/ous
  331. pontificate
  332. portmanteau
  333. posthaste
  334. posthumous
  335. postulate (propose a theory)
  336. posturing
  337. practiced
  338. pragmatic
  339. prattle
  340. precocious
  341. predilection (a great liking/preference to)
  342. preen
  343. preordained
  344. prickle (sensation)
  345. prickly
  346. progeny (offspring, successor)
  347. proprietary
  348. propulsive (propel forward)
  349. purport
  350. putrefaction (breaking down of a dead body)
  351. putter
  352. raffish (unconventional, unacceptable but intriguing)
  353. rancorous (bitter grudge)
  354. rap (at the door)
  355. rapt (enraptured)
  356. rapturous
  357. recapitulation (repeat)
  358. recrimination (argument with mutual blame)
  359. redolent
  360. renumerate
  361. reprieve
  362. reproach (criticize)
  363. repudiate (refusal to accept)
  364. resolve
  365. resonant/ce
  366. respite
  367. resumption
  368. reticent (reluctant)
  369. reverent
  370. rivulet
  371. roughshod
  372. rouse
  373. rue/ful
  374. salacious
  375. salient (prominent, noticeable)
  376. sanctimonious
  377. sanctity
  378. sanctum
  379. sardonic
  380. satiated, sated
  381. saunter
  382. self-castigation (chastisement, corrective punishment)
  383. sensate
  384. sheath, sleeve
  385. shrewd
  386. shroud(ed)
  387. sibilant/ce (hissing sound)
  388. sidle (up next to someone)
  389. simulacrum
  390. since time immemorial
  391. slake
  392. slink
  393. somnolence
  394. sordid
  395. spitfire
  396. splendor
  397. sprawling (of limbs)
  398. spry
  399. sterile
  400. stoic
  401. stunlock(ed)
  402. stupefied
  403. subjugate
  404. subsume
  405. sullen, morose
  406. sunder
  407. surreptitiously
  408. sycophant (dick rider)
  409. symbiotic relationship (mutually beneficial)
  410. tableau
  411. tact
  412. taut
  413. tenacious
  414. tenderhearted
  415. tenderize/d (made tender by beating)
  416. tendril/s
  417. tenuous
  418. tepid
  419. terse
  420. thrall, enthrall
  421. tinny (of sound)
  422. tittering
  423. topical (of the times, relevant now)
  424. traipse (bored walking)
  425. tremble(ing)
  426. trite
  427. truism
  428. tut
  429. ubiquitous (present, found everywhere)
  430. un/abashed
  431. un/moored
  432. un/perterbed
  433. unbidden
  434. unbounded
  435. unbridled (of joy)
  436. unceremonious/ly
  437. unchaste
  438. uncouth
  439. unexceptional
  440. unfettered/fettered
  441. unflappable
  442. unforthcoming
  443. unintelligible
  444. unquenchable
  445. unremitting
  446. unrepentant
  447. unruffled
  448. unsinkable
  449. untenable
  450. unvarnished truth
  451. vacant
  452. vacuous (of morality)
  453. vagrant
  454. vapid
  455. veneer
  456. venerate (revere)
  457. veracity
  458. verdant
  459. verisimilitude
  460. veritable
  461. vestige
  462. vex(ing)
  463. virile/ity
  464. visage
  465. visceral
  466. viscous
  467. vitriol
  468. volition
  469. voracious
  470. waffling
  471. wanton
  472. wiry and spidery (of human form)
  473. wistful
  474. wry (bad sit. a little funny)
  475. zealot/ous
  476. "I like the cut of your jib"
  477. "my soft pink heart"
  478. "6 feet up" (still alive)

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