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This was the first “big” word my older sister liked to toss around because nobody knew what it meant except for her. Now that we are adults, we toss it around to each other at least once whenever we have a family get-together. Daniel Beerthuis Holland, MI, USA Favorite Word: If Why?: Think about it. What would we do without this word? How would we analyze anything. What if…. Name: Lyn Location (optional): Manchester, NH Email: lem1054@aol.com Favorite Word: anthropomorphism Why?: saw a variation of the word in a funny picture and made me think how many times we assign human characteristics to other things in this life. Name: Kevin G Location (optional): PA Email: kevinlg@prodigy.net It just seems like the word itself is a huge being. I like to see paintings that use gargantuan figures, and I love how it just flows, then kind of breaks up with the “T”. Cory J. Juxtapose means “to place things side by side for comparison”. The things compared are usually very different things. I found this word in a cheesy fan-fiction of a book that I found by my pool. At a recent Christmas party we were choosing preferred gifts for our ‘Secret Santa’ operation and when I was [...] Favorite Word: Effervescent Why?: I like it because it’s such an extravagant word for something so simple: having the ability to fizz. Fizzing on its own is a very pleasant thing, but the word effervescent gives it a pinch of silliness; something we don’t see enough of and don’t value highly enough. Furthermore, the [...] Favorite Word: wicca Why?: First and foremost, it is a delightful mix of consonants–the “W,” the “k” of the double C’s–and it ends in a nice open-sounding “Ah.” Then there is the fact that you can say it to mean the spiritual practice, or say it multiple times in a row and it sounds [...] |
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