busyibee:

want to spice up your short stories, essays, or rationales? try some of these words:

space / night

• acronychal / acronycal = happening at sunset, especially of star whose rising at sunset
• actinoid = star-shaped; like rays.
• aerolite, aerolith = meteorite.

appearance

• aggerwator = locks of hair that frame the face.
• alogotrophy = excessive nutrition to any one part of the body resulting in deformity
• aspectabund = adjective that means you have an expressive face
• windlestraw = a person who is tall, thin and un-healthy looking
• Pyknic = a person who is stocky with a rounded body and head, thick trunk and a tendency to fat
• squintifego = a person who squints a lot
• gangrel = a child who is just starting to walk

philosophical

• acatalepsy = state of being impossible to understand
• klexos = the art of dwelling on the past
• zenosyne = the sense that time keeps going faster
• exulanis = to give up trying to talk about an experience because people can’t relate
• lachesism = the desire to be struck by disaster
• onism = the awareness of how little of the world you’ll experience
• lachesism = the desire
• avenoir = the desire that memory could flow backward
• vemödalen – the fear that everything has already been done
• adespoton = anonymous saying, poem, etc.
• adsum = phr. ‘I am present’
• aleger = in good spirits; happy
• alborabo = morning songs
• ilurophile / ailurophilia  = one fond of cats
• ailurophobe = one with dread of cats
• ahypnia = insomnia
• agnogenic = of unknown cause
• aerophagia = neurotic habit of swallowing air
• beingness = the quality, state, or condition of having existence
• scripturient = having a violent desire to write
• juvenilia = writer’s / artist’s youthful, early works
• macarism = pleasure in another’s joy

nature

• abscissin = hormone which triggers the falling of autumn leaves in certain trees.
• unifoliate = with one leaf only
• albiflorous = having white flowers.
• adeciduate = evergreen.
• adjust = adj. (sun) burnt or scorched; dried up by heat; gloomy; sad.
• brontide = the sound of distant thunder