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ね (ne).

Because it's a cool way to end a sentence in Japanese.

そのいえは大きいですね。
so-no-i-e-wa-oo-ki-i-de-su-ne.
That house is big ね。
That house is big isn't it.

Quixotic - cannot even remember what it means

Discombobulated. The first time I heard it, an old man I worked with had used it and I gave him shit for it because I thought he had made it up. I still laugh about that sometimes

Facetiously has all the vowels, in order, including "y".

Paraphernalia is a fantastic word for "stuff"

Fuck. Fuck can mean so many things. Just all round best word of all time.

Kumquat

It sounds funny and it's fun to say.

Asinine. It's a perfect descriptor and it's succinct.

Onomatopoeia, it's a fun word on it's own, but I love the while idea of it. Especially in other languages, like the million different words for dog barks.

Serene

Good

Applause

Super

Incredible

Hope

Dream

Mostly because of the positive vibes those words give me! 😇

Yawn. If you pronounce it while sleepy, you actually yawn. And the yawn will sound like the word yawn.

Maybe I'm just sleepy, but I like the word :)

tatterdemalion

It's got such a pleasing sound to the ear, feels nice in the mouth when you say it, and even looks pretty nice on the page.

It means something in an advance state of use, with connotations of neglect or disrepair, and is often used to describe things that would be thrown away were they not rendered nessesary by being the only option.

To me it evokes urchins, rags, wildflowers, and a little bit of magic.

Detritus

Hullabaloo

Fracas

Widdershins

Ideological

Moist

Entreat - verb - ask someone earnestly and anxiously to do something

It's a handy word that kind of combines "pleading" and "asking". It's a bummer it fell out of style because I can think of many scenarios where it would fit perfectly.

English word: curmudgeon or cattywampus

French word: hippopotame

"optimal frustration" (one single word in several languages that aren't English)

Something is too easy? Easily bored.

Something is altogether too difficult? Feels hopeless.

Optimal frustration is where the magic happens, be it in education or a computer game.

Lackadaisical.

Amalgam. It has a mouthfeel of chewing caramel.

Effective has two effs. I appreciate that defective only has one eff. Like, if you give an eff about something, you can make what doesn’t work, work.

floccinaucinihilipilification

Syzygy

Smithereens, because I’ve been playing overwatch and I play as soldier 76 a lot. He’s such a funny character.

The way he says “I’m goin in!” cracks me up.

Serendipitous. just fun to say

Not a native Spanish speaker but I've always loved "otoño" (autumn). Such a beautiful word to say.

Sesquipedalian

Koselig, the Norwegian word for cozy that is also a reflexive verb.

Loaf

Someone already took cattywampus, so I guess I'll go with ennui or petrichor.

Fuck, because it is the most fucking versatile fucking word we could fucking come up with for things that we don’t know what the fuck they are or we fucking do but no one fucking cares.

bubble

I was recently reminded of the figurative usage of poleaxed. That's my current favorite.

Coquette, because is sounds funny and nobody knows what it means

Differential, différentielle, or diferencial

In English, French, and Spanish, it just sounds cool no matter what accent.

Vituperative.

Mellifluous -- to me it flows in a self-descriptive way.

Monachopsis. The subtle and persistent feeling of being out of place, in the company of misfits and dreaming of a place to belong.

And i blame you for the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows binge you've put me on