yeahwriters:

100andsome:

With all of the words we say we’ve stopped using some particularly wonderful ones

Peckish. Gumption. Discombobulate. Mm.

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List of Words To Know #4

larmoyante:

Lalochezia - the use of abusive language to relieve stress or ease pain
Cataglottism - kissing with tongue
Basorexia - an overwhelming desire to kiss
Brontide - the low rumbling of distant thunder
Grapholagnia - the urge to stare at obscene pictures
Agelast - a person who never laughs
Wanweird - an unhappy fate
Dystopia - an imaginary place of total misery; metaphor for hell
Petrichor - the smell of dry rain on the ground
Anagapesis - the feeling when one no longer loves someone they once did

(Source: larmoyante)

badassbettyrizzo:

she-makes-alot-of-abstract-art:

ofpeacequietandmonsters:

ohai-mg:

“Your mother fucks for bricks so she can build your sister a whorehouse”

I can’t

why can’t I?

You are the opposite of batman.

you’d be in hufflepuff

‘You’re about as useful as Anne Franks drum kit’ 

I CAN’T

I CAN’T

clitsquiggle. clitsquiggle?

(Source: m4st3rofch4lkjust1c3)

If you’re ever

neilmobile:

wondering what the Swedish word for crying and masturbating simultaneously is, it’s gråtrunka. You’re welcome.

Cyaneous: a type of deep blue, cerulean

Pretty words! 

An Alphabetized List of 1,027 of the Prettiest Words

(Source: alanajoy)

Dear Sir:

I like words. I like fat buttery words, such as ooze, turpitude, glutinous, toady. I like solemn, angular, creaky words, such as straitlaced, cantankerous, pecunious, valedictory. I like spurious, black-is-white words, such as mortician, liquidate, tonsorial, demi-monde. I like suave “V” words, such as Svengali, svelte, bravura, verve. I like crunchy, brittle, crackly words, such as splinter, grapple, jostle, crusty. I like sullen, crabbed, scowling words, such as skulk, glower, scabby, churl. I like Oh-Heavens, my-gracious, land’s-sake words, such as tricksy, tucker, genteel, horrid. I like elegant, flowery words, such as estivate, peregrinate, elysium, halcyon. I like wormy, squirmy, mealy words, such as crawl, blubber, squeal, drip. I like sniggly, chuckling words, such as cowlick, gurgle, bubble and burp.

I like the word screenwriter better than copywriter, so I decided to quit my job in a New York advertising agency and try my luck in Hollywood, but before taking the plunge I went to Europe for a year of study, contemplation and horsing around.

I have just returned and I still like words.

May I have a few with you?

Robert Pirosh
385 Madison Avenue
Room 610
New York
Eldorado 5-6024

My new favorite job application letter, from 1934. He ended up winning an Oscar for screenwriting!

(via Letters of Note)

We like words too.

(via good)

This is SO WONDERFUL

(via bookwormbreakfast)

He is my spirit animal.

(via moraniarty)

(Source: megangreenwell)

—

“The wind is so peripatetic this year. Is that the word I want?”

peripatetic \pair-uh-puh-TET-ik\  , adjective:
1. Of or pertaining to walking about or traveling from place to place; itinerant.
2. Of or pertaining to the philosophy taught by Aristotle (who gave his instructions while walking in the Lyceum at Athens), or to his followers.

jigglypants:

writtensword:

sweetdivision:

A Collection of Rare and Obscure Words

Cheiloproclitic - Being attracted to someones lips.
Quidnunc - One who always has to know what is going on.
Ultracrepidarian - Of one who speaks or offers opinions on matters beyond their knowledge.
Apodyopis - The act of mentally undressing someone.
Gymnophoria - The sensation that someone is mentally undressing you.
Tarantism - The urge to overcome melancholy by dancing.
Autolatry - The worship of one’s self.
Cagamosis - An unhappy marriage.
Gargalesthesia - The sensation caused my tickling.
Capernoited - Slightly intoxicated or tipsy.
Lalochezia - The use of abusive language to relieve stress or ease pain.
Cataglottism - Kissing with tongue.
Basorexia - An overwhelming desire to kiss.
Brontide - The low rumbling of distant thunder.
Grapholagnia - The urge to stare at obscene pictures.
Agelast - A person who never laughs.
Wanweird - An unhappy fate.
Dystopia - Am imaginary place of total misery. A metaphor for hell.
Petrichor - The smell of dry rain on the ground.
Anagapesis - The feeling when one no longer loves someone they once did.
Malapert - Clever in manners of speech.
Duende - Unusual power to attract or charm.
Concilliabule - A secret meeting of people who are hatching a plot.
Strikhedonia - The pleasure of being able to say “to hell with it”.
Lygerastia - The condition of one who is only amorous when the lights are out.

Ayurnamat - The philosophy that there is no point in worrying about events that cannot be changed.
Sphallolalia - Flirtatious talk that leads no where.
Baisemain - A kiss on the hand.
Druxy - Something which looks good on the outside, but is actually rotten inside.
Mamihlapinatapei - The look between two people in which each loves the other but is too afraid to make the first move.

Wordgasm. *_*

Word pr0n! I’m trying to work here, people! :P

Also, a challenge - try using all those words in a single fic without sounding like a total douchebag or an insane person! LOLzies 

(Source: maddierose)

Russian Negotiator Nikolai Ivanovich: Why must every American president bound out of an automobile like as at a yacht club while in comparison our leader looks like... I don't even know what word is.
Sam Seaborn: Frumpy?
Russian Negotiator Nikolai Ivanovich: I don't know what "frumpy" is but onomatopoetically sounds right.
Sam Seaborn: It's hard not to like a guy who doesn't know frumpy but knows onomatopoeia.

Sapiosexual

Yes.

Callipygian

cal·li·pyg·i·an; also cal·li·py·gous
adj.
Having beautifully proportioned buttocks.
[From Greek kallipugos : kalli-, beautiful (from kallos, beauty) + pug, buttocks.]

soliloquy

1. a. A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.   
b. A specific speech or piece of writing in this form of discourse.

2. The act of speaking to oneself.

Quixotic

adjective
1. resembling or befitting Don Quixote.
2. extravagantly chivalrous or romantic; visionary, impractical, or impracticable.
3. impulsive and often rashly unpredictable.

Also, quix·ot·i·cal.