Some words in the English lexicon are more fun to say than others. Whether it’s the way the word rolls off the tongue, its rhyming or alliterative quality, or just some whimsical je ne sais quoi, we all have words that tickle us in one way or another. Here, let me share some with you. Use them in your next social media post or wow your friends at a party! You can thank me later.
Abstruse
Alacrity
Ameliorate
Anathema
Appurtenance
Avuncular
Balderdash
Baleful
Bespoke
Buffoonery
Bulwark
Catharsis
Cattywampus
Cavalcade
Chockablock
Cloying
Commentariat
Confabulate
Conurbation
Copacetic
Dastardly
Dearth
Defenestration
Deleterious
Demonym
Effulgent
Elan
Embranglement
Empyrean
Enervate
Exhort
Fabulist
Festooned
Fetid
Flummox
Gloaming
Gormless
Gusto
Haberdashery
Harridan
Hegemony
Higgledy-piggledy
Hinterland
Homunculus
Impecunious
Implacable
Importune
Incongruous
Indefatigable
Infinitesimal
Inimical
Legerdemain
Loathsome
Malediction
Milquetoast
Moribund
Myopic
Obsequious
Perihelion
Phenotype
Piebald
Plethora
Pontificate
Preponderance
Preposterous
Prestidigitation
Profligate
Pugnacious
Redolent
Remonstration
Reprobate
Resplendent
Restive
Sanctimonious
Sartorial
Schoolmarmish
Scofflaw
Scrimshaw
Serendipity
Shambolic
Sisyphean
Skullduggery
Smorgasbord
Soporific
Splendiferous
Superfluity
Supernal
Surfeit
Tangential
Tatterdemalion
Telluric
Tertiary
Tremulous
Unfathomable
Vacuous
Verve
Wherewithal
Widdershins
Winsome
Marc Rivers, Author 