What's the right word?

ArchaWriter · May 4, 2012

I love the word 'countenance'.
His countenance has fallen.
I miss it.
And no, I'm not really old.

Fallen · May 5, 2012

Simmering....

Pretty basic word but...

Chris Hill · May 5, 2012

Sometimes I favour words and don't know I'm doing it - there have been times when I go back over a manuscript taking the same word out or changing it as it's been overused
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Buffysquirrel · May 5, 2012

Limned.

That's a great word.

EarlyBird · May 6, 2012

Colloquial.

Love how it sounds, the way it rolls off the tongue and how it looks when written.

DennisB · May 6, 2012

A while back it was de rigueur for magazine articles to contain French phrases--even if they were there merely to make the author feel superior.

ShannonMcEwan · May 7, 2012

Once! said:
It's like a gibbous moon. Lovely word. Rolls across the tongue. But on the page? Can sometimes come across as pretentious.

I love risible, but can't imagine ever finding an appropriate context for it.

WriteMinded · May 7, 2012

dangerousbill said:
I also like the word 'silver' because it somehow acts like silver: it's shiny, and slips out of the mouth like an oiled pebble.

Yeah, but so does slither, my own personal favorite.

EmmersonGrant · May 8, 2012

Verisimilitude.

Shika Senbei · May 8, 2012

"Right" is the right word. "Left", for one, isn't.

What's the right word?

ArchaWriter

Fallen

Stood at the coalface

Chris Hill

Buffysquirrel

EarlyBird

Grinding it out

DennisB

ShannonMcEwan

WriteMinded

Derailed

EmmersonGrant

Lawful Good

Shika Senbei

Me want a cookie!