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A large, antique dictionary lies open on a wooden stand in a dimly lit library, illuminated by a brass table lamp.

A large, antique dictionary lies open on a wooden stand in a dimly lit library, illuminated by a brass table lamp.

matutinal, persiflage, lullaby, pacific, inchoate (and incipient), sobriquet, lugubrious, shibboleth, dissolute, aposiopesis, riparian, solipsistic, limerence, afendeo (Ok, it’s aficionado. I was SO mistaken for so many years.), paraprosdokian, susurration, senescence, hegemony, sea anemone, penultimate (This should be every logolept’s second favorite word. And, and of course antepenultimate), zaftig, lorem ipsum, suspicion, merkin, kerfuffle, anomie, venery, schadenfreude, perspicuous, eudaemonia, cleave, cacoethes scribendi, propinquity, ampersand (if only for its etymology), tomorrow, doorknob, lapis lazuli, cusp, philtrum (again, if only for its etymology), logoleptic (duh!), sprachgefühl, decant, supple, disarming, docent, rodomontade, compersion, anatiferous, crepuscular, dolce far niente, synesthesia, lapsus calami, mumpsimus/sumpsimus, palimpsestic, zugzwang, concupiscent, syllepsis, petrichor, callipygian, sesquipedalian, mamihlapinatapai. Mehr sehen