create a list of my 100 favorite words

pluvial

I didn’t know conglomerate had so many meanings!

–noun
1. anything composed of heterogeneous materials or elements.
2. a corporation consisting of a number of subsidiary companies or divisions in a variety of unrelated industries, usually as a result of merger or acquisition.
3. Geology. a rock consisting of pebbles or the like embedded in a finer cementing material; consolidated gravel.

–adjective
4. gathered into a rounded mass; consisting of parts so gathered; clustered.
5. consisting of heterogeneous parts or elements.
6. of or pertaining to a corporate conglomerate.
7. Geology. of the nature of a conglomerate.

–verb (used with object)
8. to bring together into a cohering mass.
9. to gather into a ball or rounded mass.

–verb (used without object)
10. to collect or cluster together.
11. (of a company) to become part of or merge with a conglomerate.

So apparently I like words that are just pure silliness! I must use it in a sentence somehow someday…. :D

Tatterdemalion

((person in tattered clothing; ragamuffin; (<~~ also a great word!) a shabby person))

How great a word is rapscallion?! I love it! Hahaha! A great old-fashioned insult :D

((a rascal; rogue; scamp))

quash just sounds so wierd and a bit posh :)

((to put down or suppress completely; quell; subdue; to make void, annul, or set aside))

I’m hoping that this goal will help me expend my vocabulary too, and make me pay more attention to the sound and the look of words. That’s got to be good for someone who like to write, right?

But for now I’ll start with glockenspiel – it just sounds so silly and pretty all at once :)

((a musical instrument composed of a set of graduated steel bars mounted in a frame and struck with hammers, used esp. in bands))

trebuchet
sequin
glockenspiel

I like words, but I’ve never really paid attention to the ones I like the most. So let me see. Starting off slowly, as usual.

1. Sepulchrally.

<sup>1. of, pertaining to, or serving as a tomb.
2. of or pertaining to burial.
3. proper to or suggestive of a tomb; funereal or dismal.
4. hollow and deep: sepulchral tones.</sup>

2. Aristocratic.

<sup>1. of the aristocracy
2. grand or elegant</sup>

3. Gingerly

<sup>1. with great care or caution; warily.
2. cautious, careful, or wary.</sup>

4. Shenanigans

<sup>1. mischief; prankishness
2. deceit; trickery</sup>

5. Riveting

^{1. Wholly absorbing or engrossing one’s attention; fascinating}