Cool Words

Logophilia: a love of words. Oh hey, speaking of! This page is for sharing and archiving cool words I have stumbled across in my time being a reader and... logophile. I'm ashamed to say I think they are cool. Oh well, nothing to do now but accept that I'm pretentious but knowledgeable.

Oh, and I took the added liberty of adding approximately where I sourced these words, mostly for my own benefit; it's nice to see where I do the best digging for new words.

• Aureate: words of vague poetic appeal, such as these (Quizlet, searching for words for this list)
• Vicissitude: A change in direction, in one's course or in one's life (poet from Medium I can't recall)
• Morass: Bog, with emphasis on the confusion one feels mired in one (UNSONG)
• Venal: Susceptible to bribery, as opposed to more generic corrupting forces (Atlas Obscura)
• Bucolic: the way a countryside is serene
• Inure: through repetition become accustomed to, and generally something you ought not be (Man's Search for Meaning)
• Inculcate: through repetition teach something as true, and generally something you ought not do (The Shallows: What The Internet is Doing to our Brains)
• Effervescent: bubbly, oddly exactly like how soda bubbles rise and crackle (Hippo Campus)
• Ephemeral: transient, but a bit briefer
• Transient: ephemeral, but a bit longer (Dark Souls 1 lol)
• Erstwhile: former (Jake the Dog)
• Felicity: intense, enunciated happiness (Cat!)
• Halcyon: a fictitious, idyllic past era one looks back on (Vansire)
• Blithe: undue yet cheery disregard (Quizlet on rare vocab words)
• Insouciance: more fully arrogant than blithe (Thesaurus.com to berate a friend over text more intellectually)
• Edify: improve through teaching (socialist pamphlet a college girl in a beret gave me)
• Invidious: outrageous with obnoxious sheens (Race is a Four-Letter Word)
• Assiduous: impressively enduring (Race is a Four-Letter Word)
• Querencia: a happy place, where one feels safe (Quizlet)
• Lalochezia: relief from chewing someone out (Medium.com)
• Lachesism: the wish for disaster to strike so that life becomes simple (Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows)
• Quincunx: an arrangement like the 5 side of a die (Anthropological paper)