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. aloof
  23. ambulate
  24. ameliorate
  25. amenable
  26. amicable
  27. ammend
  28. amoral
  29. amorous/ly
  30. amorphous
  31. anachronism
  32. androgyne
  33. antipathetic
  34. aplomb (poise)
  35. appendages
  36. arbiter(s)
  37. ardent
  38. artifice
  39. ashen-faced
  40. asinine
  41. askew (of glasses)
  42. assent
  43. assuage
  44. audacity
  45. auspicious
  46. austere
  47. avolition (amotivation)
  48. awash
  49. banal/ity
  50. bated (breath)
  51. belie
  52. bellowing
  53. bereft
  54. besiege(d)
  55. besotted
  56. bewilder
  57. bifurcate
  58. bitter-tempered
  59. blasé
  60. bleary-eyed
  61. blithe
  62. boisterous
  63. boorish
  64. brandish
  65. breath fanning
  66. breaths intermingled
  67. brevity
  68. bristle
  69. burgeoning
  70. cabal
  71. cacophonous
  72. cajole (sweet talk convincing)
  73. calcified anger
  74. callous
  75. cantankerous
  76. canter
  77. capitulate/ion (surrender, yield)
  78. catatonic
  79. caustic
  80. chary (cautious, wary)
  81. chaste
  82. churlish (vulgar)
  83. circumspection
  84. clandestine (secret)
  85. cocksure
  86. cogent
  87. cogitation
  88. coiled (of sunrays)
  89. commissary
  90. concentric
  91. concurrent/ly
  92. confection
  93. congealed
  94. congenial
  95. conjecture
  96. conniption (rage, hysteria)
  97. consanguineous (blood-related)
  98. consternation
  99. constitution
  100. consummate (to complete)
  101. contrite (penitent)
  102. corporal
  103. corrosive
  104. cull (slaughter/do off with the weak)
  105. cupidity (passionate or excessive desire)
  106. curtail
  107. dalliance
  108. debauched
  109. debonair
  110. debutante
  111. decadent (of sluts)
  112. deft
  113. defunct
  114. degeneration
  115. delectation (delight)
  116. deleterious
  117. deliverance (of wrath)
  118. demagogue
  119. demarcation
  120. democratic (broadly appealing)
  121. demonstrably/tive
  122. demoralize(d)
  123. demure
  124. denigrate
  125. derision/deride
  126. despondent
  127. despotic
  128. deuteragonist
  129. dexturous
  130. diminutive (illustrate tinyness; sometimes affectionate, sometimes disparaging)
  131. disarming
  132. discontinuity
  133. discordant (unpleasant sound)
  134. disembodied/ment
  135. disingenuous
  136. dispassionate
  137. dispirited
  138. disposition
  139. disquiet/ude, unrest, (unease)
  140. dissemble
  141. disseminate, permeate
  142. distend (chest expanding)
  143. doily-skinned
  144. dotage
  145. drivel
  146. dumbfeeling (a michaelism)
  147. duplicitous (deceit)
  148. demarcation
  149. démodé
  150. denigration
  151. dwarf (verb; made small)
  152. edifying
  153. effete
  154. eldritch
  155. elucidate
  156. elusive
  157. emblazoned
  158. emboldened
  159. embroil(ed)
  160. emphatic
  161. endemic
  162. enduring
  163. engender
  164. ennui
  165. enrich(ed)
  166. entrust
  167. enshrine
  168. enumerate
  169. ephemeral
  170. epitaph
  171. equivocation
  172. erroneous
  173. erudite
  174. espouse
  175. eventuality
  176. eviscerate
  177. excise
  178. exacting
  179. execrate
  180. exempt
  181. expanse(s)
  182. expeditious
  183. expound
  184. expunge
  185. extortionate (of prices)
  186. extracate
  187. extrapolate
  188. exuberant/ce
  189. exultant
  190. facsimile (reproduction of a human creation)
  191. fallible
  192. fanfare
  193. "I'm a farce."
  194. faux pas
  195. feckless
  196. feeble
  197. feign
  198. ferment
  199. ferocity
  200. fervent
  201. fervor
  202. fester
  203. fetching
  204. feud/ing
  205. flagrant
  206. flay (criticize harshly)
  207. flush (adj; overfilling)
  208. flux
  209. fodder
  210. foible (small, strange habit)
  211. for perpetuity
  212. formidable
  213. "fruitful relationship"
  214. fruitless
  215. fungible (of morality)
  216. furtive
  217. futile/futility
  218. gank (swindle, steal)
  219. gaunt
  220. generalize (results of a study)
  221. genial
  222. gestational (budding idea)
  223. ginned up
  224. gloaming (twilight, dusk)
  225. gloat
  226. glomming on (to appropriate)
  227. glower (angry stare)
  228. goad
  229. grok (understand)
  230. grouse
  231. grub (food)
  232. guffaw(ing)
  233. hammy (Goro Akechi)
  234. having no sense of propriety
  235. histrionic
  236. hog wild
  237. "hollow comfort"
  238. (tragic) hubris
  239. ichor
  240. ideate
  241. idyllic
  242. ilk
  243. immutable
  244. impart
  245. impertinent/ly
  246. impervious
  247. implacable
  248. impossibility
  249. impotent
  250. impudence
  251. inane (lacks substance)
  252. incandescent (shining bright, of smiles)
  253. incognizant
  254. incongruous
  255. iconography
  256. incorrigible
  257. incorruptible
  258. inculcate (instill through repetition)
  259. incument
  260. indefensible
  261. indefinite (vague, undefined)
  262. indices
  263. indignant (anger at percieved injustice)
  264. indomitable
  265. ineptitude
  266. infamy
  267. infeminine
  268. infractions (of rules)
  269. ingenuous/ness
  270. innumerable
  271. inscrutable
  272. insipid (dull and boring)
  273. insolence
  274. insouciant
  275. intangible
  276. interiority (being interior, private)
  277. interlocutor
  278. inundate
  279. inure
  280. invariably
  281. inviolable
  282. ire
  283. irreconsilable
  284. irrelevant
  285. irreverant
  286. jeer(s)
  287. jovial
  288. keens (verb)
  289. keyed up
  290. knackered
  291. lachrymose
  292. lackadaisical
  293. laconic
  294. langorous
  295. languid
  296. lascivious (strong sexual desire)
  297. latent (present but inactive)
  298. lavish with
  299. leer
  300. lilting (of voice)
  301. liminal
  302. linger
  303. listless
  304. litany
  305. lithe
  306. livid
  307. loft (verb; hit high into air)
  308. lofty
  309. loll back (recline)
  310. ludicrous
  311. lurid
  312. lush(es) (noun; a drunk, alcoholic. Often describing a drunk woman who then seeks out sex, in which case she’d also be seen as loose)
  313. malaise
  314. malevolent
  315. maligned
  316. malingering
  317. "seduced by mammon"
  318. masticate
  319. meander(ing)
  320. mendacity
  321. "messianic complex"
  322. mewl
  323. mien (manner, appearance of)
  324. miffed
  325. miffy (easily offended)
  326. milieu (environment)
  327. militant
  328. minutia
  329. mirth
  330. misanthrope
  331. miscreant
  332. misgivings (worry)
  333. modicum
  334. moot
  335. motif
  336. mottled
  337. muddled
  338. mundane
  339. mussed (hair)
  340. nebulous
  341. needling
  342. neg
  343. nix
  344. fidelity to the truth
  345. nascent (newly forming, in its infancy)
  346. necrotic
  347. nominal
  348. nondescript (ordinary)
  349. noot (nothing)
  350. noxious
  351. obdurate (obstinate, unchanging)
  352. obstinate
  353. ogle
  354. on repose (mouth slightly open)
  355. ontological
  356. ornery
  357. ostensibly
  358. overtures
  359. owlish (look)
  360. padding (walking)
  361. palatable
  362. pallor
  363. pariah
  364. pawing at
  365. pay due deference
  366. peevy/ish
  367. pejorative (disparaging, disapproving)
  368. penitent (remorseful)
  369. peon
  370. peppery (easily annoyed)
  371. percussive
  372. perfunctory
  373. permutation
  374. perseverate
  375. perverse
  376. petulant
  377. peturbation
  378. phantasmic
  379. piddly (small and unimportant)
  380. placate
  381. placcid
  382. plaintive
  383. platitude
  384. pliant
  385. plod
  386. ploy
  387. ply at someone (offer something)
  388. ponder/ous
  389. pontificate
  390. portmanteau
  391. (save for) posterity
  392. posthaste
  393. posthumous
  394. postulate (propose a theory)
  395. posturing
  396. potent/cy
  397. practiced
  398. pragmatic
  399. prattle
  400. preamble
  401. precocious
  402. predilection (a great liking/preference to)
  403. preen
  404. preordained
  405. pressing on
  406. prickle (sensation)
  407. prickly
  408. progeny (offspring, successor)
  409. proprietary
  410. propulsive (propel forward)
  411. purport
  412. putrefaction (breaking down of a dead body)
  413. putter
  414. raffish (unconventional, unacceptable but intriguing)
  415. rancorous (bitter grudge)
  416. rap (at the door)
  417. rapt (enraptured)
  418. rapturous
  419. recapitulation (repeat)
  420. recoil
  421. recrimination (argument with mutual blame)
  422. redolent
  423. renumerate
  424. reprieve
  425. reproach (criticize)
  426. repudiate (refusal to accept)
  427. resolve
  428. resonant/ce
  429. respite
  430. restitution
  431. resumption
  432. reticent (reluctant)
  433. retort
  434. revel
  435. reverent
  436. rivulet
  437. robust
  438. (ride) roughshod (complete disregard of others)
  439. rouse
  440. rue/ful
  441. salacious
  442. salient (prominent, noticeable)
  443. sanctimonious
  444. sanctity
  445. sanctum
  446. sardonic
  447. satiated, sated
  448. saunter
  449. self-castigation (chastisement, corrective punishment)
  450. sensate
  451. sheath, srve
  452. shrewd
  453. shroud(ed)
  454. sibilant/ce (hissing sound)
  455. sidle (up next to someone)
  456. simulacrum
  457. since time immemorial
  458. slake
  459. slink
  460. somnolence
  461. sordid
  462. spitfire
  463. splendor
  464. sprawling (of limbs)
  465. spry
  466. stale(separate from food; outdated, old)
  467. sterile
  468. stigmata (nailed palms, like Jesus)
  469. stoic
  470. storied
  471. stunlock(ed)
  472. stupefied
  473. subjugate
  474. subsume
  475. sullen, morose
  476. sunder
  477. supposition
  478. surreptitiously
  479. sycophant (dick rider)
  480. symbiotic relationship (mutually beneficial)
  481. synthesize(ing)
  482. tableau
  483. tact
  484. "take up the mantle"
  485. taut
  486. taxonomy
  487. tenacity/ous
  488. tenderhearted
  489. tenderize/d (made tender by beating)
  490. tendril/s
  491. tenuous
  492. tepid
  493. terse
  494. thrall, enthrall
  495. "tinker tirelessly"
  496. tinny (of sound)
  497. tittering
  498. topical (of the times, relevant now)
  499. traipse (bored walking)
  500. tremble(ing)
  501. trite
  502. truism
  503. tut
  504. ubiquitous (present, found everywhere)
  505. un/abashed
  506. unadulterated (pure, untainted)
  507. un/moored
  508. un/perterbed
  509. unbidden
  510. unbounded
  511. unbridled (of joy)
  512. unceremonious/ly
  513. unchaste
  514. uncouth
  515. unexceptional
  516. unfettered/fettered
  517. unflappable
  518. unforthcoming
  519. unidirectional
  520. unintelligible
  521. "ungrateful home"
  522. unquenchable
  523. unreality
  524. unremitting
  525. unrepentant
  526. unruffled
  527. unsinkable
  528. unspoiled
  529. untenable
  530. unvarnished truth
  531. vacant
  532. vacuous (of morality)
  533. vagary
  534. vagrant
  535. vapid
  536. veneer
  537. venerate (revere)
  538. veracity
  539. verdant
  540. verisimilitude
  541. veritable
  542. vestige
  543. vex(ing)
  544. virile/ity
  545. visage
  546. visceral
  547. viscous
  548. vitriol
  549. volition
  550. voracious
  551. voyeur/ism (and its brother, exhibitionism)
  552. waffling
  553. wane
  554. wanton
  555. wiry and spidery (of human form)
  556. wistful
  557. wry (bad sit. a little funny)
  558. zealot/ous
  559. "I like the cut of your jib"
  560. "my soft pink heart"
  561. "6 feet up" (still alive)

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