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What are your favorite English words?

by Rebecca Morgan | Aug 23, 2012 | Developing People | 11 comments

11 Comments

  1. Richard Hadden
    Richard Hadden on August 23, 2012 at 5:20 pm

    Obfuscate
    Pernicious
    Interstices (my personal favorite)

  2. John Schoedel
    John Schoedel on September 6, 2012 at 5:34 am

    My favorite words:
    admonish
    obsequious
    opaque
    obtuse
    harmonize
    pretentious
    ubiquitous (personal favorite)

  3. Purva
    Purva on September 6, 2012 at 6:04 am

    Emaciate
    Flummoxed
    Immaculate
    Impeccable
    Impetuous
    Insinuate
    Jostle
    Perseverance
    Preposterous

  4. Diana Schneidman
    Diana Schneidman on September 6, 2012 at 6:32 am

    How about “vacillate”?

    It sounds vaguely obscene (like a combination of “vaseline” and “going back and forth”) but it’s a perfectly acceptable word.

    -Diana

  5. Connie
    Connie on September 6, 2012 at 6:52 am

    Jenny’s ring was quite ostentatious.

  6. Connie
    Connie on September 6, 2012 at 6:55 am

    Don Quixote was a quixotic fellow.

  7. Sizemore Seminars
    Sizemore Seminars on September 6, 2012 at 7:31 am

    Here are a few that passed my eyes this week:
    sycophants
    inherent
    resilient
    obstacles
    sumptuous
    peril
    ~Metha Sizemore

  8. Stephanie Slavin
    Stephanie Slavin on September 6, 2012 at 8:57 am

    Among my favorite words are:

    Gi-normous
    quantum
    visionary
    pragmatic
    equilateral

  9. Gary Kagel
    Gary Kagel on September 6, 2012 at 9:16 am

    Expedient
    Expedicious
    Poinient
    Prodigious
    ascertain

  10. Sharon Stephens
    Sharon Stephens on September 6, 2012 at 2:21 pm

    My favorite words:

    emancipation
    fruition
    hemophiliac
    obdurant
    prerogative

  11. Karleen
    Karleen on September 7, 2012 at 12:10 pm

    Exacerbate
    Onus
    Generational
    Plethora
    Energize

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