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13 Beautiful Words We Should Start Using More Often

"Good words are worth much, and cost little." - George Herbert

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13 Beautiful Words We Should Start Using More Often
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As a writing major, I have come to discover two things:

1. Essays will always and forever suck

2. The English language is unbelievably complex.

If you put it into perspective, we walk around day after day exchanging different combinations of the same pairings of words over and over again. We rarely expand our vocabulary beyond the most basic of words even though there are trillions out there simply waiting to be spoken more than once. These thirteen beautiful words are merely a dent in the vastness of the English language but, hey, a little dent can go a pretty long way sometimes.

1.Philocaly

(n.) the love of beauty.

2.Aeipathy

(n.) an enduring and consuming passion.

3.Sillage

(n.) the scent that lingers in the air, the trail left in the water, the impression made in space after something or someone has been and gone; the trace of someone’s perfume.

4.Eleutheromania

(n.) an intense and irresistible desire for freedom.

5.Quaintrelle

(n.) a woman who emphasizes a life of passion, expressed through personal style, leisurely pastimes, charm, and cultivation of life’s pleasures.

6.Aurora

(n.) dawn

7.Elysian

(v.) beautiful or creative; divinely inspired; peaceful and perfect.

8.Kalon

(n.) beauty that is more than skin-deep.

9.Meraki

(v.) to do something with soul, creativity or love; when you leave a piece of yourself in your work.

10.Ethereal

(adj.) extremely delicate, light, not of this world.

11.Wonderwall

(adj.) someone you find yourself thinking about all the time, the person you are completely infatuated with.

12.Trouvaille

(n.) something lovely discovered by chance; a windfall.

13.Serendipity

(n.) the chance occurrence of events in a beneficial way.

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