1/23/10
Words, I love them, especially the polysyllabic ones. They even sound beautiful all by themselves. For instance:
Alimentary, ambidextrous, alluvial
Bodacious, bilious, bumptious
Copacetic, crepuscular, confluence
Discombobulate, deleterious, dilettante
Enraptured, epiphany, effervescent
Flamboyant, farfetched, fractious
Grandiosity, gumption, garrulous
Happenstance, hyperbole, hemisphere
Immolate, iridescent, illumination
Jocularity, jeopardize, jambalaya
Knowledgeable, killjoy, kleptomaniac
Languidly, lapidary, lachrymose
Miasma, mellifluous, melancholia
Nostalgia, neanderthal, netherworld
Ostentatious, oscillation, opulence
Plethora, processional, perspicacity
Querulous, quizzical, quandary
Rambunctious, revelatory, reminiscence
Serendipity, solipsism, salubrious
Tremulous, tantalizing, tempestuous
Ululate, usurpation, unscrupulous
Validation, verbosity, vociferous
Winsome, wanderlust, watchfulness
Xenophilous, xylography, xenolith
Yammering, yearling, yesteryear
Zaftig, zeppelin, ziggurat
Really now... aren't they fabulous? Words randomly flow around in my brain when I am not engaging in specific thought. I love to use luxuriant language whenever I can, love to read it and to hear it coming back at me too.
So here is what I think. With the dumbing down of our society those of us who like to write and speak with panache and elegance are often perceived as exhibitionistic elitists. Well that is an amphora of effluvia my friends! Heed my exhortation! Be proudly prolifically polysyllabic!
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