What's your favourite word?

I suppose it all depends on just what feels moist.

Moist.

I use this in the phrase “moist but firm” when anyone asks how I am.

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capricious

Apparently “moist” comes up as the most hated word for those with a word aversion.
Perhaps it’s the nature of the meaning and how it sounds that suggests something distastefully vulnerable.

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See, it’s a great word

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Verisimilitude
…the quality of seeming true

That seems about right

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That is a good one.
On a fictitious literary or subjectively artistic usage the term could be perhaps given as an instinctively simple one.
Although if dared to be used in any scientific methodology will ask for a many faceted prism of a kaleidoscopic, psychedelic and complex cul-de-sac.

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Ubiquitous

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My dog’s favourite word is anthropomorphism, he loves it

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Pragmatic

That’ll do.

Zoonoses - conjures up visions of elephants :elephant:.

Damned Covid19

“Pulchritude” is the word that - I think - least sounds like what it means

That word could be irrelephant:

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I had to look that one up but you are indeed right

Serengeti.

Norks: although it has its knockers😮

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vacillating

/ˈvasɪleɪtɪŋ/

adjective

  1. wavering between different opinions or actions; irresolute.

“he was accused of vacillating leadership”

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