Favorite Words in the English Language

I was just typing up a long report today and I came across a few I really liked, and then they got me thinking.

Vat (n) - A large vessel, such as a tub, cistern, or barrel, used to hold or store liquids.

Apricot (n) - Downy yellow to rosy-colored fruit resembling a small peach.

Opt (v) -To make a choice or decision.

Indeed (adv) - Without a doubt; certainly.

Sliver (n) - A slender piece cut, split, or broken off; a splinter.

Extinguish (v) - To put out.

Sex (v) - The sexual urge or instinct as it manifests itself in behavior.

Rue (v) - To feel regret, remorse, or sorrow for.

Zeppelin (n) - A rigid airship having a long cylindrical body supported by internal gas cells.

Cataclysm (n) - A violent upheaval that causes great destruction or brings about a fundamental change.

Fuck (int) - Used to express extreme displeasure.

Sacrosanct (adj) - Regarded as sacred and inviolable.

Ox (n) - A bovine mammal.

Strawberry (n) - Sweet fleshy red fruit.

Jacuzzi (n) - A large whirlpool bathtub with underwater jets that massage the body. (This might be a proper noun, I'm not sure.)

Cigarette (n) - A small roll of finely cut tobacco for smoking, enclosed in a wrapper of thin paper.

err...let me see, Mista.....why do you like these English words? For the sound, the spelling, the meaning?

I got many. One is definitely the adverbe "outrageously", such a great sound, once your tongue gets untwisted! Others will follow...

I like those for the sound and the spelling, nothing to do with the meaning in most cases.

Definitely. :p

Soup

I don't really value any words on an individual level. I appreciate them much more when juxtaposed together in ways you don't normally see them; I love oxymorons and paradoxical, surreal metaphors.

"Cellar door" is, according to Donnie Darko, the best (paraphrased adjective, since I've not seen it in a while) two-word combination known.

I prefer aesthetic extraculation.

Only the former word exists, but it somehow communicates what I'm trying to say. It sounds beautiful.

Masticate.

And not because it sounds like masturbate.

It's better to masticate than expecterate

The words the following person sometimes utters, like

Just two:

Precipitation - A scientific word for rain.

Archipeligo - A group of islands.

Dont as me why I like these words because I do not know.