Friday, March 6, 2009

100 most beautiful words

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100 Most Beautiful Words In English
1 adroit Dexterous, agile.
2 adumbrate To very gently suggest.
3 aestivate To summer, to spend the summer.
4 ailurophile A cat-lover.
5 beatific Befitting an angel or saint.
6 beleaguer To exhaust with attacks.
7 blandiloquent Beautiful and flattering.
8 caliginous Dark and misty.
9 champagne An effervescent wine.
10 chatoyant Like a cat's eye.
11 chiaroscuro The arrangement of dark and light elements in a picture.
12 cockle A heart-shaped bivalve or a garden flower.
13 colporteur A book peddlar.
14 conflate To blend together, to combine different things.
15 cynosure A focal point of admiration.
16 desuetude Disuse.
17 diaphanous Filmy.
18 diffuse Spread out, not focused or concentrated.
19 dulcet Sweet, sugary.
20 ebullient Bubbling with enthusiasm.
21 effervescent Bubbly.
22 efflorescence Flowering, the opening of buds or a bloom.
23 elixir A good potion.
24 emollient A softener.
25 encomium A spoken or written work in praise of someone.
26 ephemeral Short-lived.
27 epicure A person who enjoys fine living, especially food and drink.
28 epiphany A sudden revelation.
29 erstwhile At one time, for a time.
30 eschew To reject or avoid.
31 esculent Edible.
32 esoteric Understood only by a small group of specialists.
33 ethereal Gaseous, invisible but detectable.
34 etiolate White from no contact with light.
35 evanescent Vanishing quickly, lasting a very short time.
36 exuberant Enthusiastic, excited.
37 felicitous Pleasing.
38 fescue A variety of grass favored for pastures.
39 foudroyant Dazzling.
40 fragile Very, very delicate.
41 fugacious Running, escaping.
42 gambol To skip or leap about joyfully.
43 glamour Beauty.
44 gossamer The finest piece of thread, a spider's silk.
45 halcyon Happy, sunny, care-free.
46 hymeneal Having to do with a wedding.
47 imbricate To overlap to form a regular pattern.
48 imbroglio An altercation or complicated situation.
49 imbue To infuse, instill.
50 incipient Beginning, in an early stage.
51 ingenue A naïve young woman.
52 inglenook The place beside the fireplace.
53 inspissate To thicken.
54 inure To jade.
55 jejune Dull; childish.
56 lagniappe A gift given to a customer for their patronage.
57 lagoon A small gulf or inlet in the sea.
58 languor Listlessness, inactivity.
59 lassitude Weariness, listlessness.
60 laughter The response to something funny.
61 lilt To move musically or lively, to have a lively sound.
62 lithe Slender and flexible.
63 loquacious Talkative.
64 luxuriant Thick, lavish.
65 mellifluous Sweet-sounding.
66 missive A message or letter.
67 moiety One of two equal parts, a half.
68 mondegreen A misanalyzed phrase.
69 nebulous Foggy.
70 niveous Snowy, snow-like.
71 obsequious Fawning, subservience.
72 odalisque A concubine in a harem.
73 oeuvre A work.
74 offing That part of the sea between the horizon and the offshore.
75 onomatopoeia The creation of words by imitating sound.
76 paean A formal expression of praise.
77 palimpsest A manuscript written over one or more earlier ones.
78 panacea A complete solution for all problems.
79 panoply A complete set.
80 pastiche A mixture of art work (art or music) from various sources.
81 peccadillo A peculiarity.
82 pelagic Related to the sea or ocean.
83 penumbra A half-shadow, the edge of a shadow.
84 peregrination Wandering, travels.
85 petrichor The smell of earth after a rain.
86 plethora A great excess, overabundance.
87 porcelain A fine white clay pottery.
88 potamophilous Loving rivers.
89 propinquity A nearness, similarity, or kinship.
90 Pyrrhic Victorious despite heavy losses.
91 quintessential The ultimate, the essence of the essence.
92 redolent Sweet-smelling.
93 rhapsody A beautiful musical piece.
94 riparian Having to do with the bank of a river or other body of water.
95 ripple A small, circular wave emanating from a central point.
96 scintillate To sparkle with brilliant light.
97 sempiternal Forever and ever.
98 seraglio Housing for a harem.
99 serendipity Finding something while looking for something else.
100 surreptitious Sneaky.

BONUS WORDS
101 sussurous Producing a hushing sound, like flowing water.
102 symbiosis Interdependence of two different species.
103 syzygy The direct opposition of two heavenly bodies.
104 talisman A symbolic object believed to have magical powers.
105 terpsichorean Related to dance.
106 tintinnabulation Ringing.
107 umbrageous Shady.
108 vestige A small fragment.
109 whisper Speaking without vibrating the vocal folds.
110 zyzzyva A kind of beetle.

Posted from http://www.alphadictionary.com

Monday, February 16, 2009

design for mankind








































Writer Erin Loechner launched award-winning Design for Mankind 
in mid-2007 in an attempt to bring light to the inspiration found 
in today’s creative culture. Through photography, product design, 
style and craft, Design for Mankind is dedicated to showcasing the 
talents of the emerging art and design community.

Boasting a popular viewership of over 8,000 readers per day, 
Design for Mankind has received numerous praise for Erin Loechner’s 
unique perspective on the industry. With features like ‘The Dailies’ 
[a glance into the daily life of artisans/designers] and ‘Reader Profiles’ 
[where we hear from our many loyal readers!], 
Design for Mankind is truly an inspiration for us all.

Need another reason to visit this award-winning site?
Here’s Erin with 18 of them:
18. Sometimes I give out prizes to my favorite readers. Good prizes, in fact.
17. I sucked my thumb until I was in 6th grade. Don’t you want that kind of influence in your life?
16. I shower often. No smells at Design for Mankind.
15. This is my passion. Writing to you, that is.
14. I’ve met Bono, which means that if you read Design for Mankind, technically, you’ve met half of Bono. Sort of.
13. I live in Los Angeles and come on, what else is there to do here but read some blogs?
12. I’ve never balanced my checkbook, so you won’t have to read about math and stuff.
11. I can recite all fifty states in alphabetical order in less than fourteen seconds. Always good to have someone like that around. You know. Just in case.
10. I want my future children to have wooden toys only. You know, so if toys are left out, the house will still look cuter than ever.
9. If you read Design for Mankind, you can have the following conversation:
Stranger: “Hey, what’re you reading?”
You: “Design for Mankind.”
Stranger: “Wow! You sound so egalitarian!”
8. Every month I publish a magazine called Mankind Mag. It’s a great thing to read at the dentist, and again, you could potentially have the conversation in #13.
7. I Google EVERYONE. So watch out.
6. Design for Mankind makes you lose weight.
5. I graduated college as a triple-major, double-minor. You know, in case you have a question about the Rhetorical Nature of Literature.
4. Ok, I’m lying in #6.
3. I read each and every comment left on Design for Mankind. Try me.
2. I like to help in any way I can. Again, try me.
1. Because inspiration can change the world.

Under The Root will be featured in a 2am project with these beautiful beings during mid-March.
Please check into Design For Mankind, be inspired, change the world!

And lastly, if you want more of Erin, you can find her at BAKERY.

Monday, December 29, 2008

a kiss is not a kiss without it stopping time

Sunday, November 16, 2008

cleverly we tumble along

Beside the moonlit sidewalk,
lay grass, gravel, and my shadow,
slinging the light and
resting each step in my memory, keeping count.

I reached over to a door handle and let in a sprite.
Only,
it was not me who unhitched the latch.
The culprit was the shadow.

image by Frantisek Drtikol

Monday, November 10, 2008

under the umbrella of our atmosphere









We are safe, from the void of air reaching us.
What happens if the void crosses the boundary and rings in the ears of
the listening?
Does the Earth tremble and collapse in on itself?
Will there be essences in laughter to the eyesight of stripped oxygen?

Do we evaporate and disappear,
or implode releasing a blip.

..just a thought.

Sunday, September 7, 2008

air cooled engine



.."I fetched the little flowers in my teeth and brought them back to him.
He told me then I was too bad to be treated so gently by everyone,
and that he knew how to punish me. He ordered me to mount a nearby table."

That is where I am right now and the table is just big enough
to straddle and cut.  The rest of the pieces which fall to the ground
are scooped up by the pet ants.  Now, i wish to have the hot air
balloon dress to lift my ass.