A v.v. awesome friend of mine is running a v.v. awesome
word-use challenge this summer, based on
100 Words Every Word Lover Should Know. Some of these I don't know, and some I do, and
a bunch of them I've already used in fics. If you can name a word from the list below and the fic I've used it in, I'll give you a present. DK what it is yet -- probably a drabble.
'Scuse me for now, I'll be in my bunk with dictionary.com, getting familiar with the words I don't know.
001. aesthetic 002. alchemy 003. allegory 004. anachronism 005. anathema
006. bailiwick 007. beleaguered 008. bromide 009. cappuccino 010. caprice
011. caribou 012. chiasmus 013. chortle 014. coccyx 015. crescendo
016. cruciverbalist 017. desultory 018. detritus 019. didgeridoo 020. ebullient
021. echelon 022. egregious 023. ephemeral 024. epicure 025. ersatz
026. facetious 027. fecundity 028. focaccia 029. fusty 030. gemütlichkeit
031. glossolalia 032. gossamer 033. gravamen 034. halcyon 035. hiatus
036. humuhumunukunukuapuaa 037. iconoclast 038. insouciant 039. interloper 040. internecine
041. inveigle 042. jeremiad 043. juxtaposition 044. koan 045. laconic
046. lagniappe 047. leprechaun 048. litotes 049. lucubrate 050. magnanimous
051. maharajah 052. malapropism 053. meretricious 054. mesmerize 055. meticulous
056. milieu 057. mitochondrion 058. nemesis 059. nictitate 060. nostrum
061. nudnik 062. obloquy 063. obstreperous 064. oxymoron 065. palaver
066. pejorative 067. precarious 068. prestidigitation 069. preternatural 070. quark
071. quixotic 072. redolent 073. repugnant 074. rubric 075. sangfroid
076. sarcophagus 077. schwa 078. serendipity 079. sesquipedalian 080. shaman
081. sinecure 082. snakebit 083. soporific 084. succotash 085. susurration
086. syzygy 087. tantalize 088. theory 089. timbre 090. troglodyte
091. ullage 092. umlaut 093. vicissitude 094. visceral 095. voluptuous
096. wassail 097. xerophyte 098. yogh 099. Zeitgeist 100. zenith
PS.
REMIX REDUX. That's both a hint for one of the words above, and a shout of jubilation because sign-ups for Remix Redux '09 is open!