I was thinking the other day (rare, I know) about how many “D” words I like. It seems like a great thing to bring up in my blog – vocabulary and all that jazz. Anyway, here are my favorites:
1. Duck = not the animal. I’m quite averse to quacking. I mean the verb, “duck,” as in trying to escape from bullets ;)
2. Dredged = oh, the image of something being dragged or pulled up from somewhere way down, through darkness and deep water…till finally, it’s dredged up to the surface.
3. Dude = okay, I’ll admit it: I love saying dude.
4. Disco = it’s just fun to say! Blaring music, flashing lights, people full of energy…
5. Delve = this is what you do when you’re going deep down to dredge something up :P
6. Dampen = don’t drench (although that is another great word), don’t moisten – just dampen the rag. Like dew drops.
7. Dew. Bahaha ^
8. Dismal/Dreary = makes me think of days of rain without ceasing, or castle dungeons, or going hours without seeing people.
9. Droll = I should really have put this one at the top. It’s the best “D” word ever! Listen to the definition (oh-hoh, it’s soooo awesome): “amusing in an odd way; whimsically humorous; waggish.” Go and look up the “waggish” – I assure you that you will be amused. And I have just decided that I am a wag.
10. Delete = don’t you just love that little button on the keyboard that says DELETE? I wish there was one of those for my brain. And my life. Oh, I don’t want to remember that – delete. I’d like get rid of that annoying person – delete.
11. Departure = something I’d rather participate in than merely “leaving.” If you know what I mean.
12. Disinclined = quite self-explanatory in its awesomeness.
13. Dastardly = meaning cowardly, sneaking…Dastardly deeds are always done in medieval novels. Quite.
14. Dysfunctional = oh, how this word applies to me…At the moment, my computer is making me dysfunctional in anything but cyberspace ;p
15. Discover = my major life pursuit. My life-motto. All of my dreams in a nutshell. My…ooookay, I’m being prolixly again.
16. Discard = throwing away things has its benefits. Especially those books I buy from library booksales that are labeled DISCARD in a most appealing way. Although, I don’t use this word very much because I’m an, ah, packrat *cough*.
Do you have a favorite "D" word?? I'm always willing to expand my vocabulary!
2 comments:
I started laughing at "duck"..."I'm quite averse to quacking"??? Ahahahaaa.
Dismal is such a awesomely dismal word. Mhmm.
DROLL!! Oh such a wonderful word!! It makes me think of Pride and Prejudice: "oh, how droll that sounds!" Hehe :)
Gosh, good thing for everyone else that you DON'T have a delete button for life...a bunch poor [albeit annoying] people would be goooone. ;P
Disinclined makes me think of the first Pirates movie (I know, I know, shut up, k?) where Barbossa says, "I'm disinclined to acquiesce to your request." And yeahh *sheepish grin*--I had to look up how to spell acquiesce.
Discover. Me like.
SOOO at the moment I can only think of one awesome D word that you happened to omit. Dandy! Such a dandy word, eh? =D Oh, and I am quite fond of saying "dang." Heh.
Dandy? Really, now. That doesn't seem at all the type of extremely intelligent things we say :P bahaha but I do like it.
I'm rather addicted to saying "dang." And "darn." x)
Disinclined ALWAYS makes me think of pirates!!!! :D :D
Wait, are you saying that I would ABUSE the privileges of having a DELETE button??! shame on you ;p
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