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Chartreuse

I just love how it rolls off the tongue. It’s a color with variations of yellow and green. I don’t particularly like the color but I love the word.

Ashley

Metanoia

It rolls off the tongue. It means to “change one’s mind” or “turn over a new leaf”.

Paul Sebastolol, CA

Haberdasher

This word is simply amazingly fun to say. It means “a retail dealer in men’s furnishings, as shirts, ties, gloves, socks, and hats.” I enjoy telling my friends that they have on some nice haberdashery today.

nikki

Militia

I remember the first time I heard the word militia. I was seven or eight, and I thought it was an ice cream dessert. The actual meaning was much more exciting to my young mind. The thought of being in an violent, underground uprising was an idea me and my friends explored playing in [...]