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Madeline's avatar

my word is STOKED

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Alex Dobrenko`'s avatar

great word great meaning great way to pronounce it all around good word

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Madeline's avatar

wow I have been pronouncing your last name SUPER wrong

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Alex Dobrenko`'s avatar

lol how?

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Madeline's avatar

Can Tony get me a cannoli?

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Alex Dobrenko`'s avatar

jfc

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Matthew Welmers's avatar

Ablutions

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Alex Dobrenko`'s avatar

the act of washing oneself (often used for humorously formal effect).

ok how the hell is this done for HUMOUR that is FORMAL????

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Matthew Welmers's avatar

https://twitter.com/jasonfried/status/1152653076676825088?s=20&t=dKhCkyhIuw08blKF2mPyvQ Here's a formal example in a hotel likely.

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Alex Dobrenko`'s avatar

incresdible.

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Matthew Welmers's avatar

My favorite use is in the Archer episode 'The Limited' where we see Cheryl/Carol in her private train car in the bath responding to Mallory asking 'What are you doing here?' by 'Uh, trying to perform my ablutions?'

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Overexpression's avatar

webinar 🤤

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Alex Dobrenko`'s avatar

huge word with a huge impact on society. B+

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Anne Kadet's avatar

Lol

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Paul Kearney's avatar

Discombobulated

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Alex Dobrenko`'s avatar

incredible word, so many consonants bouncing around and it's got a bob right in the middle there. 11/10

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Paul Kearney's avatar

It’s “bobbing” around in the middle!

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Myq Kaplan's avatar

pad is a good one!

i also very much like the word "copacetic."

i have lots of favorites but i'll start with that one.

PS bonus fave words include "the" and "and" because probably most people don't have those as their favorites. ooh or "this" or "here" or "now."

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jack's avatar

Numinous

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Alex Dobrenko`'s avatar

love this word. you ever mess w the word 'noetic'? It feels similar. William James said it was one of the two qualities that happens when you have a transcendent consciousness experience -

Noetic quality. — Although so similar to states of feeling, mystical states seem to those who experience them to be also states of knowledge. They are states of insight into depths of truth unplumbed by the discursive intellect. They are illuminations, revelations, full of significance and importance, all inarticulate though they remain; and as a rule they carry with them a curious sense of authority for after-time.

here's a good breakdown: https://www.themarginalian.org/2018/06/04/william-james-varieties-consciousness/

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QuasiTonic's avatar

Gelatinous

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Alex Dobrenko`'s avatar

I Disapprove of What You Say, But I Will Defend to the Death Your Right to Say It

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QuasiTonic's avatar

I could ruin yours by telling you the first thing that comes to mind when I hear the word pad, but I'm not choosing violence today

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Alex Dobrenko`'s avatar

that is why you are a noble soul that shall ascend to heaven while I shall remain here in a gelatinous purgatory for all my days

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QuasiTonic's avatar

🤣

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Alex's avatar

seep

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Alex Dobrenko`'s avatar

love the word, the image it evokes tho? idk. B+

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Bee Sword's avatar

surfactant

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Alex Dobrenko`'s avatar

was waiting for someone to say this jk why do you love this word?

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Bee Sword's avatar

Just the sound of it, really. The combination of letters is almost tactile to me, and the order of the consonants makes them exponentially more powerful than hearing them in smaller (lesser) words like 'surf' or 'fact'. You go from hiss to fricative to that crisp "ct" (only possible because there's another syllable after it), and then a pleasing denouement.

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Alex Dobrenko`'s avatar

damn that was a beautiful explanation - surfactant - its like a 4 act play! Thanks for walking me through that

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Rick Hamrick's avatar

Pandiculation.

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Alex Dobrenko`'s avatar

wow I didnt even know this word existed and now I do!! Here's the def for everyone else: Pandiculation is the involuntary stretching of the soft tissues, which occurs in most animal species and is associated with transitions between cyclic biological behaviors, especially the sleep-wake rhythm

So yawning is a clasic pandiculation!

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Rick Hamrick's avatar

We have two chiweenies, and they cannot go outside with me until there has been the requisite pandiculating.

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Alex Dobrenko`'s avatar

i need to see a documentary of this asap

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Rick Hamrick's avatar

Here you are, Alex. One of our dogs pandiculating (Google combined several still shots to create this effect).

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CbyHuyqzyXwD2oIHoiaGI4XX22vOTIvm?usp=sharing

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Rick Hamrick's avatar

(he even yawns in the middle of it!)

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Alex Dobrenko`'s avatar

Hahaha omg this is incredible. Also ‘pandiculate.gif’ is the best file name there has ever been

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Jack McNulty's avatar

speciesism - meaning, the assumption of human superiority...in itself a laughable assumption!

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Alex Dobrenko`'s avatar

ooooh yes this is good, a great word and a profound comment on the stupidity of humankind. A+

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Alex Dobrenko`'s avatar

epic word AND the first word suggested with the letter 'g' - very interesting...

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ok now u r showing off A++

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Alex Dobrenko`'s avatar

incredible word. I just looked up the etymology: In the Middle Ages, Thome Fole was a name assigned to those perceived to be of little intelligence. This eventually evolved into the spelling tomfool, which, when capitalized, also referred to a professional clown or a buffoon in a play or pageant.

Classic Thome Fole

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