Ever since I was a 'sugar cube', I've enjoyed using bigger or lesser-used words. It made me feel smart and important. I especially liked learning all the dinosaur names that I could.
I think I mostly use big words because I don't like to use the word 'very' when describing something. Like 'very pretty' should be 'glorious'. Why can't 'very bad' be 'horrendous'?
Some of my favorite words describe bad things: appalling, innane, sychophant, absurd, unholy. They are fun to say when you're angry.
I also have strong affection towards animal-related words: avian, equine, lagomorph, bovine, gastropod, cetacean, monoplacophora.
Sometimes I wake up at 3:00 a.m. and think: 'What is another word for this word?' Then I get on my ipad and look it up on the thesaurus (which I thought was a dinosaur the first time I heard it.)
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