Deconstruction When fictional element are played more realistically, it usuually bad for the characters.

Glurge A sickening sweet story with a questionalbe aesop.

When I read...anything I like to write down words I'd like to use in the future and have either forgotten or never heard of but I just love how they sound

Segue, contrary, preternaturally, paradoxical, ingeniously cruel, unflappable, nebulous, dignified, prevaricated, dismissive, desperation, brittle, artificial, implicit, timbre, fester, stifled, invariably, mutilating, feral, magnanimously, fatalistic, blasphemous, cathartic, immiscible, insouciance, caveat, vacillated, derivations, incipient, sacrilegious, tangentially, disconcerting, incapacitate, resonate, laconic, acrid, apropos, ire, caustic, spatial displacement,volatile, emote,immolate, errant.

I wish I had a made-up word to add

I like the word caldera so much that I made it my name on Facebook! It's a "large, basinlike depression resulting from the explosion or collapse of the center of a volcano" and I just think it's the prettiest thing!

Sesquipedalian (literally, a food and a half long one!) also just struck me as beautiful. I feel tempted to add it to my vocabulary as a kind of affirming exclamation of goodness just because that's what I feel like it means.

Meniscus is a word I was only recently introduced to. It's that curve on top of a really full glass of water that still doesn't overflow. What I like most about it is how odd the juxtaposition of that official-sounding word is with the Peanuts-decorated jelly jars I have that, in their production of the most satisfactory examples of such, have defined my concept of the term.

Similarly, ferrule seems like such a beautiful, almost elven-sound term for something as silly and flimsy as that oh-so-chewable () metal that surrounds and even more chewable () eraser.

Are you planning to use all of these words in a giant IRG Mad Lib, Yasha?  If so, that would be all kinds of awesome.

sustain Don't ask questions okay?

Hyperpolysylabicsesquipedalian I wrote a paper on it in High School and it was the only A i got in that freakin class.

Thats all for now

Yasha wrote:

Imaginary Bad Bug wrote:

Are you planning to use all of these words in a giant IRG Mad Lib, Yasha?  If so, that would be all kinds of awesome.

Oh shit, that is the best idea EVER. I feel stupid saying this, but I don't know how to go about doing it... advice? Hints? Tips?

Hmm, perhaps someone (or several someones) - who hasn't yet read all the neato words in here - writes up some short stories (possibly amusing stories about IRG and its members), and then goes through and removes words that, when replaced with words from this thread, make those stories instant hi-larious IRG Mad Libs!

We'd need volunteer writers who aren't frequenting this thread but like the idea, someone to catalog the words in this thread into the appropriate parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives, and so on), and yet another third party to choose words at random to fill the blanks in the stories, without seeing the story.

Or something like that. Is this something we should try to pursue further? The trick is keeping the element of chance and blind choice in the equation.

OR! maybe catalog the words, and then plug them into something like this.

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Triskadecaphobia The fear of the number 13.

Antidisestablishmentarianism Fun to say, but it's even funner to say it and someone else be like, "What's that?" and actualy know its meaning...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antidisest … ntarianism

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Knickerbockers - Baggy knee trousers.  They are like the ancestor of board shorts.  (The name is just plain funny)

Bumbershoot It's an umbrella!

Parapluie It's an umbrella! In French!

Saturation Wesker wants it BADLY

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Boondoggle Because just saying it is fun.

Ascertain because a word that looks like ass certain makes me certain i have an ass.