I was reading ‘Rise of Theodore Roosevelt’ and I came across this line, “With inexorable slowness, the train crawled down the Hudson Valley into thickening fog.”
The line stuck with me because of the word ‘Inexorable’ which means inevitable. I found the word beautiful! It read well, and rolled almost melodiously off the tongue.
That’s when I thought of writing an article on the words I find the most beautiful in the English language.Be warned before you proceed – beautiful words certainly don’t mean that their meanings are pleasant!
Here is a list of my favorite words:
1. Mellifluous: A sweet and smooth sound, pleasing to the ears.
2. Ineffable: Too great to be expressed in words.
3. Nefarious: Wicked.
4. Epoch: A particular time in someone’s life.
5. Sonorous: A resonating sound.
6. Serendipity: Occurrence of events luckily in a beneficial way.
7. Limerence: The state of being infatuated with another person.
8. Bombinate: Making a buzzing sound.
9. Ethereal: Not for this world, extremely delicate.
10. Petrichor: The pleasant earthy smell after rain.
11. Iridescent: Forming an illusion of rainbow like colors.
12. Supine: Lying face upwards
13. Luminescence: Something which is radiant.
14. Aurora: Dawn! (Such a beauty in this word.)
15. Syzygy: The alignment of celestial bodies.
16. Oblivion: A state of unawareness of your surroundings.
17. Denouement: Finale, or sometimes epilogue.
18. Eloquence: The art of using language fluently.
19. Cromulent: Sounding legitimate but actually being bogus.
20. Phosphenes: The multicolored patterns produced by rubbing your eyes.
Well, I’m sure many people love the ‘petrichor’ or find it pleasant to watch the ‘aurora’, like I do!
Adios.
Speechless Mr. Petwal *-*
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