- flabbergasted: overwhelmed with shock, surprise, or wonder
- serendipity: luck that takes the form of finding valuable or pleasant things that are not looked for
- brouhaha: great excitement or concern about something
- hullabaloo: a situation in which many people are upset and angry about something
- cantankerous: difficult or irritating to deal with
- jocularity: noun form of jocular: given to jesting : habitually jolly (Habitually jolly? Love it!)
- onomatopoeia: the naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with it (as buzz, hiss)
- kerfuffle: disturbance, fuss
- lackadaisical: feeling or showing a lack of interest or enthusiasm
- oxymoron: a combination of words that have opposite or very different meanings
- asterisk: a symbol * that is used in printed text especially to tell someone to read a note that can be found at the bottom of a page (Many just call it a star. What a missed opportunity!)
- Albuquerque: city central New Mexico pop 448,607 (And if you hail from there, you are an Albuquerquean.)
- curmudgeon: a crusty, ill-tempered, and usually old man (You’re thinking of someone right now, aren’t you?)
- debauchery: bad or immoral behavior that involves sex, drugs, alcohol, etc.
- frazzled: put in a state of extreme physical or nervous fatigue
- melancholy: an abnormal state attributed to an excess of black bile and characterized by irascibility or depression (Black bile? Who knew? Black bile: a humor of medieval physiology believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen. How does one reduce one’s excess?)
- obnoxious: unpleasant in a way that makes people feel offended, annoyed, or disgusted (Again, someone popped into your mind … right?)
- periwinkle: a trailing plant with large blue flowers that is used as a ground cover and in window boxes or a light purplish blue (Such a happy word!)
- scrumptious: very pleasant to taste (I think the definition needs a bit more punch.)
- bloviate: to speak or write verbosely and windily (I picture it being delivered by a corpulent—having a large bulky body—politician.)
- discombobulate: upset, confuse
- shenanigan: a devious trick used especially for an underhand purpose
- regurgitate: to bring food that has been swallowed back to and out of the mouth (Sorry for the image. I didn’t say they all were pleasant.)
- pandemonium: a wild uproar
- lollygag: to spend time doing things that are not useful or serious : to fool around and waste time (Such as creating this blog.)
Those are some of my favorites. What are yours? Comment below.
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