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My 14 month old grandson is just learning to talk and has learnt to say 'narna' (banana), 'da-da' and 'car'. Got me thinking about the wonderful gift of speech and how we extend our vocabularies. Do you have favourite words, perhaps because of their literal meaning, a particular association or just for the pleasure that the sounds give as they roll around the tongue?
Some of my favourites:

tranquillity
serendipity
rendezvous
snuggle
mesmerize
scrumptious
periwinkle

Somehow I'm very fond of "Unter den Linden" The image of a street called "Under the Linden Trees" is very appealing to me (I don't speak German, either--kind of weird, eh?)

Hiiii Cally!
I love all the words you mention...they flow so beautifully.
Some others i love just coz of the way they flow so nicely..
Halcyon
Myriad
Magical
Twinkly
Starlight
Intricate
Charismatic
Protagonist
Harlequin
Sublime

XOX

Great choices there CM, especially 'halcyon'! x

I have an affection for "discombobulate" and "phenomenon"....

Great choices. I also like whatchmacallit and thingamajig for when I can't remember names of stuff and whozhamajigits when I can't remember a person's name!

serendipitous synchronicity
Obsequiously cloying
Perspicacious

I do love when just the right word comes to mind for the moment ... And you remember it

Oh i love synchronicity Gilly!
Both the word and when it happens! X

I love your words too, Callyanna! I have never thought about favorite words, but my whole family have good vocabularies, and we all enjoy increasing them. I taught my (college student) son "penurious" yesterday. He looked it up, and discovered that it has two very different meanings, parsimonious, which is how I was using it, and extremely poor, which is certainly not the same at all.

We used a few German words at home when I was growing up, Marybeth, as it was my father's native language. I like Spaziergang, which is not really translatable. It's an after dinner, digest your meal, sort of walk. We will probably go for a spaziergang after our turkey dinner next week. My dad always said "close the light" which is the direct translation, not "turn off the light". And I think I was an adult before I learned what a trivet is (the thing you put the hot pan on at the table). We just called it an undersatz.

Obfuscate

CHOCOLATE Sorry Cally, couldn't resist

Me neither Suchardo007, what would life be without it?

Oh, a subject after my own heart! Thanks for the great topic and words posted Callyanna and others.

I love the words

Peeved
Faffing
Dance
Prance
Chuntering
Sanguine

just to name a few.

cheers, Maggie

Learned recently :

preprandial or postprandial walk Like them and the process also

Incipient & vestigial - opposite meanings, both gorgeous!