want to spice up your short stories, essays, or rationales? try some of these words:
acronychal / acronycal = happening at sunset, especially of star whose rising at sunset
actinoid = star-shaped; like rays.
aerolite, aerolith = meteorite.
aggerwator = locks of hair that frame the face.
alogotrophy = excessive nutrition to any one part of the body resulting in deformity
aspectabund = adjective that means you have an expressive face
windlestraw = a person who is tall, thin and un-healthy looking
Pyknic = a person who is stocky with a rounded body and head, thick trunk and a tendency to fat
squintifego = a person who squints a lot
gangrel = a child who is just starting to walk
acatalepsy = state of being impossible to understand
klexos = the art of dwelling on the past
zenosyne = the sense that time keeps going faster
exulanis = to give up trying to talk about an experience because people can’t relate
lachesism = the desire to be struck by disaster
onism = the awareness of how little of the world you’ll experience
avenoir = the desire that memory could flow backward
vemödalen - the fear that everything has already been done
adespoton = anonymous saying, poem, etc.
adsum = phr. ‘I am present’
aleger = in good spirits; happy
ilurophile / ailurophilia = one fond of cats
ailurophobe = one with dread of cats
agnogenic = of unknown cause
aerophagia = neurotic habit of swallowing air
beingness = the quality, state, or condition of having existence
scripturient = having a violent desire to write
juvenilia = writer’s / artist’s youthful, early works
macarism = pleasure in another’s joy
abscissin = hormone which triggers the falling of autumn leaves in certain trees.
unifoliate = with one leaf only
albiflorous = having white flowers.
adjust = adj. (sun) burnt or scorched; dried up by heat; gloomy; sad.
brontide = the sound of distant thunder
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