Sunday, February 21, 2016

Beautiful Words




These beautiful words should be used more often...

Petrichor - the smell of earth after the rain
Opulent - lush, elegant
Ineffable - unutterable, inexpressible
Conflate - to blend together
Effervescence - bubbles in water
Ephemeral - lasting for a short time
Sonorous - an imposingly deep and full sound
Logophile - a person who loves words
Aquiver - trembling
Supine - lying face upward
Finifugal - hating endings
Oblivion - the state of being unaware of what is happening around you
Lacuna - a blank space, a missing part
Catharsis - the purging or release of emotional tensions