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ね (ne).

Because it's a cool way to end a sentence in Japanese.

そのいえは大きいですね。
so-no-i-e-wa-oo-ki-i-de-su-ne.
That house is big ね。
That house is big isn't it.

Quixotic - cannot even remember what it means

Discombobulated. The first time I heard it, an old man I worked with had used it and I gave him shit for it because I thought he had made it up. I still laugh about that sometimes

Facetiously has all the vowels, in order, including "y".

Paraphernalia is a fantastic word for "stuff"

Fuck. Fuck can mean so many things. Just all round best word of all time.

Kumquat

It sounds funny and it's fun to say.

Asinine. It's a perfect descriptor and it's succinct.

Onomatopoeia, it's a fun word on it's own, but I love the while idea of it. Especially in other languages, like the million different words for dog barks.

tatterdemalion

It's got such a pleasing sound to the ear, feels nice in the mouth when you say it, and even looks pretty nice on the page.

It means something in an advance state of use, with connotations of neglect or disrepair, and is often used to describe things that would be thrown away were they not rendered nessesary by being the only option.

To me it evokes urchins, rags, wildflowers, and a little bit of magic.

Yawn. If you pronounce it while sleepy, you actually yawn. And the yawn will sound like the word yawn.

Maybe I'm just sleepy, but I like the word :)

Detritus

Hullabaloo

Fracas

Widdershins

Ideological

Serene

Good

Applause

Super

Incredible

Hope

Dream

Mostly because of the positive vibes those words give me! 😇

Entreat - verb - ask someone earnestly and anxiously to do something

It's a handy word that kind of combines "pleading" and "asking". It's a bummer it fell out of style because I can think of many scenarios where it would fit perfectly.

Amalgam. It has a mouthfeel of chewing caramel.

floccinaucinihilipilification

Moist

"optimal frustration" (one single word in several languages that aren't English)

Something is too easy? Easily bored.

Something is altogether too difficult? Feels hopeless.

Optimal frustration is where the magic happens, be it in education or a computer game.

Lackadaisical.

English word: curmudgeon or cattywampus

French word: hippopotame

Effective has two effs. I appreciate that defective only has one eff. Like, if you give an eff about something, you can make what doesn’t work, work.

bubble

Fuck, because it is the most fucking versatile fucking word we could fucking come up with for things that we don’t know what the fuck they are or we fucking do but no one fucking cares.

Koselig, the Norwegian word for cozy that is also a reflexive verb.

Syzygy

Serendipitous. just fun to say

Sesquipedalian

Smithereens, because I’ve been playing overwatch and I play as soldier 76 a lot. He’s such a funny character.

The way he says “I’m goin in!” cracks me up.

I was recently reminded of the figurative usage of poleaxed. That's my current favorite.

Not a native Spanish speaker but I've always loved "otoño" (autumn). Such a beautiful word to say.

Someone already took cattywampus, so I guess I'll go with ennui or petrichor.

Loaf

Rick rolled

Qualia - instances of subjective conscious experience

It's fun to say, fun to think about how your red and my red differ subjectively but we still agree that red is red, and just a fun word.
The concept itself has many strong detractors and arguments against it being real, but eh, I'll keep on thinking about it.

Differential, différentielle, or diferencial

In English, French, and Spanish, it just sounds cool no matter what accent.

Reasonable

Monachopsis. The subtle and persistent feeling of being out of place, in the company of misfits and dreaming of a place to belong.

And i blame you for the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows binge you've put me on