What is Your Favorite Word Today?

[gali]

I like the sound of eish!

Hurray!

[SuduNona]

Synchronicity - for such much that has been truly wonderful in my life has happened this way - a series of seemingly unconnected events which with hindsight led to great change.

Well that's my definition. Wikipedia put it rather differently and less creatively:

Synchronicity is the experience of two or more events as meaningfully related, where they are unlikely to be causally related. The subject sees it as a meaningful coincidence. The concept of synchronicity was first described by Carl Jung, a Swiss psychologist, in the 1920s.[1]

The concept does not question, or compete with, the notion of causality (however critics state that the causality, statistics and probability theorems, is enough for explaining cases of "synchronicity",[2] which are in fact "normal events of low probability"[3]). It maintains that just as events may be connected by a causal line, they may also be connected by meaning. A grouping of events by meaning need not have an explanation in terms of a concrete sense of cause and effect.

Whatever, it works for me!

[PashaRu]

Coxcomb - a conceited, fooish, pretentious fop

[Fran]

Lockspit - the grassy verge on the side of a country road

[Nathrad Sheare]

Surreptitious... If somebody here has posted it, well, I'm posting it again, because it relates to another word I like... Insidious! Oh... That's the name of a really disturbing horror movie, isn't it? Well, that aint MY fault!

[gali]

Invigorating is my word for today!

[Bighuey]

Dump - What my dog left on the kitchen floor this morning.

[Nathrad Sheare]

Wish I had a mutt so I could anticipate presents like that...

[Fran]

Abraded - just came across it in my current read & like th sound of it. Meaning worn away by friction or erosion

[Bighuey]

My Chihuahua is pretty good, but she leaves a Tootsie Roll every now and again.

Poloponies - Contraction of polo ponies. Heard Norton use it in a Honeymooners episode.

[PashaRu]

Exculpate - show or declare that someone is not guilty

[lnygaard]

Cuticle. I was trying to explain to my two year old what her cuticle was and it took a long time. Probably not worth the effort.

So its my word for the day.

[Pandanian101]

Silence.

Why? It contains so much irony. There is no such thing as silence. You can make your environment quieter, but you never hit actual silence. The wind is always blowing, or something is always breathing. Sometimes you think you have found silence, but you haven't. It's just that you don't have good enough hearing to hear some noises. So even if a person finds silence, there is no such thing as actual silence in the world.

[Fran]

Redacted = censor (For example when an official document has some text blacked out)

[booklovingolfer]

Haughty - Cocky. I have always enjoyed this word for some reason.