NERD ALERT: I love words.

I love reading. I love accents. I love definitions. I love speech.

I just love language and all the words (familiar and foreign) that come along with it.

Recently, I came across the article "30 Things I'd Rather Be Than Pretty", and it sparked my search for new words to add to my vocabulary. While I borrowed a couple from the article's author, I found myself enjoying the research and discovery of even more ways to describe myself. Hopefully, some of these relate to you guys, too.

1. Belesprit (French)

- a personofgreatwitorintellect.

2. Sonderous (French)

- one who realizes each random passerby lives a life as vivid and complex as his/her own.

3. Occhiolic (English)

- a person aware of the smallness of his/her perspective in the scheme of the universe.

4. Eunoia (Greek)

- well-minded; beautifully thinking.

5. Atychiphobic (Greek)

- fearing failure; fear of not being good enough.

6. Bawdy (English)

- humorously vulgar.

7. Abliguritious (Latin)

- one who spends an excessive amount of money on food.

8. Couthy (Scottish)

- a warm and friendly person.

9. Polyhistor(Greek/Latin)

- a well-educated person; varied learning.

10. Esoteric (Greek)

- understoodbyormeantonly fortheselectfew with special knowledgeorinterest; private, secret, confidential.

11. Scripturient (Latin)

- having a consuming passion for writing.

12. Philocalic (Greek)

- a lover of beauty.

13. Quiescent (Latin)

- a quiet, soft-spoken soul.

14. Clinomaniac (Greek)

- one with an excessive desire to stay in bed.

15. Finifugal (Latin)

- a person who hates endings; tries avoiding or prolonging the final moments of a story, relationship, or some other journey.

16. Selcouth (English)

- unfamiliar, rare, strange, and yet marvelous.

17. Eccedentesiast (English)

- one who hides pain behind a smile.

18. Recherche (French)

- "carefully sought out"; carefully chosen, rare, or exotic.

19. Solivagant (Latin)

- wandering alone.

20. Logastellus (Greek)

- a person whose love of words is greater than his/her knowledge of words.

Even if you can't find yourself in any of these, put them to good use in a paper or in everyday conversation. (You never know what might happen.) As well, if you want even more words, check out The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. Happy hunting!