make a list of 50 words that I love to use.

40. trollop (noun) – Strumpet, tart, floozy, Jezebel, hosebag, harlot, skank. O, the exuberant words of sluttishness.

41. marmoreal (adjective) – Cold and marble-like, especially of emotion or personality. “Amy’s marmoreal nature was drawn out over the years by honed joylessness and the brittle jaws of biting criticism.”

42. copacetic (adjective) – Fine, exceptionally acceptable, just dandy. I can’t imagine a cooler sounding word.

43. attenuate (verb) – To draw out in length, to make thin and tapered.

44. failcookie (noun) – The prize for being hit upside the head the most times before finally getting the message.

45. plimsolls (noun, pl.) – The proper word for sneakers or deck shoes.

46. lumber (verb) – To plod with some measure of stagger, with an implied largesse and/or oafishness.

47. nyaff (noun) – A brat or irritating person. “Take yer leave, ye wee nyaff!”

48. lachrymose (adjective) – Weepy, in a sweepingly dramatic, melancholic sense. Causing of nausea.

49. dewlap (noun) – A flap of loose skin or wattle that hangs underneath the chin of certain animals. “A jawbreaker a day keeps the dewlap away,” said Amy, in her dotage.

50. dotage (noun) – Old age, euphemistically, sort of.

30. zonino (exclamation, slang) – Already passé but endearingly semi-obscure predictive textspeak translation for “woo-hoo”!

31. decrepitude (noun) – A state of grave disrepair or ruin generated by years, nay decades of passionlessness.

32. trundle (verb) – To roll out, as on wheels. “He’s trundling out that old chestnut? Pardon me while I gag myself with a spoon.”

33. whup (verb) – To whip, always followed by “yo ass”. “Make a fool of Amy and she’ll whup yo ass.” not “I need to whup ten egg whites to make Julia’s bittersweet chocolate soufflé.”

34. battleax(e) (pejorative noun) – Nearly antiquated but perfect tarry epithet for an obnoxious and aggressive woman. Yeah, that one. You know her too?

35. thing (abstract noun) – The noun you’re looking for at the tip of your post-forty tongue. “The father of the English Arts and Crafts Movement was William… William… Thing.”

36. luddite (largely pejorative noun) – One who is opposed to social or technological change/evolution.

37. hankering (noun, slang) – A craving or appetite for something. “Amy has a hankering for bacon and self-immolation when she recalls her vegan days.”

38. yawp (verb, noun) – (To utter) a short cry or yelp. “I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world” – Walt Whitman

39. ennui (noun) – Practised boredom, honed joylessness.

40. tacit (adjective) – Implied and understood but not stated or articulated. “Amy has a tacit agreement with herself to be skewered in every relationship she enters.”

20. alienate (verb) – To make estranged. The plummy pronunciation: “Ah – LIE – en – ate.”

21. hispid (adjective) – Bristly with whiskers, like a bull terrier’s snout.

22. torpor (noun) – Lethargy or inertia. “After consuming a burrito bigger than her head, Amy descended into a digestive torpor.”

23. asshat (pejorative) – I got it from Tartsy and it’s divine!

24. skivvies (noun) – Undergarments.

25. puffery (noun) – Exaggerated or false praise, flattery. “I charge, sir, that with that claim, you have committed puffery.”

26. circuitous (adjective) – Indirect, roundabout.

27. tripe (noun, slang) – Nonsense, balderdash, hooey.

28. tether (noun) – Leash, rope. “There is no more virtue in patience. I am at the end of my tether with your thinly-disguised passive-aggressive hostilities.”

29. désolée (exclamation, Fr.) – Sorry, too bad, regretful. ”’Désolée!’ said Miss Manners, feigning sadness as she stuffed the last Oyster Rockefeller into her mouth.

30. anathema (noun) – Something loathed or greatly disliked. “The last laugh was on Miss Manners. Oysters Rockerfeller are anathema to me.”

10. roil (noun, verb) – To boil or writhe, with uncomfortable connotation. “One could hear Amy’s innards roiling a mile away.”

11. plethora (noun) – An abundance or superfluity.

12. twee (adjective) – Unbearably and contrivedly cute.

13. champion (adjective) – In top form, on one’s game. “How’re you doing, Miss Rat?” “Champion, fine fellow! Champion!”

14. fubsy (adjective) – Short, rotund, squat, like an overstuffed armchair.

15. paramour (noun) – A love, lover or beloved, with a built-in soupçon of illicitness.

16. gentleman/gentlemen (noun, noun pl.) – The way to address youth so as to render them well-behaved and well-evolved from cavemen stance. “Gentlemen, plates in the sink before trampolining, please.”

17. homunculus (noun) – Little man. Sounds less offensive than it can be.

18. snafu (acronym) – Systems normal all fouled (or the other f- word) up.

19. bumpf (noun) – Superfluous written matter, i.e. useless pamphlets and flyers.

20. swimmingly (adverb) – Smoothly, without obstacle.

Jeepers, I could get through the lot in about four minutes.
Attenuate, rat, attenuate.

1. whinge (int. verb) – Alternative to whine.
2. derring-do (noun) – Old-school steampunk superheroes performed acts of derring-do.
3. whelp (noun) – Bratty child. “Why, that insouciant whelp! I’ll box his ears!”
4. oingo-boingo (onomatopoeia, not the band) – The imaginary sound of fleshy bounce. “That speedo? I wouldn’t. Oingo-boingo.”
5. rapscallion (noun) – Alternative to rascal.
6. zut (French interjection) – Equivalent of “crikey” or “fooey” or another personal favourite…
7. damnation (as interjection) – “They’re out of mango-vanilla? Damnation! Zut!”
8. soignée (French, adjective) – Elegantly groomed or composed. “It is hard to gnaw on chicken feet and look soignée, but Amy pulled it off.”
9. vestibular (adjective) – Relating to the sense of balance, but more importantly, it is one of those multi-syllabic words that happens to fit in just about anywhere. “I dare say, your vestibular! Issues, my man!”
10. cripes (exclamation) – Endearingly quaint comic book euphemism
is overdue for a comeback, methinks. “Cripes! It’s the fuzz!”