Words That You Need to Add to Your Vocabulary

As a word nerd, I get excited every time I read some extraordinary sentence-enhancer (this happened more so in grad school than it does now, of course). I've compiled a list over the past few years of my favorite words that we could all sprinkle into our conversations or written pieces every now and then.

Phantasmagoria

Tenor

Reticent

Ascendance

Isochromatic

Positivistic

Deictics

Revivify

Indexicality

Evocative

Pedagogy

Cybernetic

Ekphrasis

Epideictic

Parsimony

Prodigious

Vehement

Secularization

Oscillation

Tutelage

Apex

Clandestine

Empirical

Cogent

Recalcitrant

Putative

Nullity

Facsimile

Proclivity

Salubrious

Finitude

Roseate

Inconsequential

Encomium

Paean

Woebegone

Ignoble

Veracity

Memento mori

Bucolic

Mellifluous

Grandiloquent

Meretricious

Amphitheatrical

Iconomandia

Balletic

Sycophant

What are your favorite sentencer-enhancers? Comment below or tell me on my instagram @zoeparisblog.