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100 Beautiful and Ugly Words

by Mark Nichol

One of the many fascinating features of our language is how often words with pleasant associations are also quite pleasing on the tongue and even to the eye, and how many words, by contrast, acoustically and visually corroborate their disagreeable nature — look no further than the heading for this post.
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Beautiful Words

• Amorphous: indefinite, shapeless
• Beguile: deceive
• Caprice: impulse
• Cascade: steep waterfall
• Cashmere: fine, delicate wool
• Chrysalis: protective covering
• Cinnamon: an aromatic spice; its soft brown color
• Coalesce: unite, or fuse
• Crepuscular: dim, or twilit
• Crystalline: clear, or sparkling
• Desultory: half-hearted, meandering
• Diaphanous: gauzy
• Dulcet: sweet
• Ebullient: enthusiastic
• Effervescent: bubbly
• Elision: omission
• Enchanted: charmed
• Encompass: surround
• Enrapture: delighted
• Ephemeral: fleeting
• Epiphany: revelation
• Epitome: embodiment of the ideal
• Ethereal: celestial, unworldly, immaterial
• Etiquette: proper conduct
• Evanescent: fleeting
• Evocative: suggestive
• Exuberant: abundant, unrestrained, outsize
• Felicity: happiness, pleasantness
• Filament: thread, strand
• Halcyon: care-free
• Idyllic: contentedly pleasing
• Incorporeal: without form
• Incandescent: glowing, radiant, brilliant, zealous
• Ineffable: indescribable, unspeakable
• Inexorable: relentless
• Insouciance: nonchalance
• Iridescent: luster
• Languid: slow, listless
• Lassitude: fatigue
• Lilt: cheerful or buoyant song or movement
• Lithe: flexible, graceful
• Lullaby: soothing song
• Luminescence: dim chemical or organic light
• Mellifluous: smooth, sweet
• Mist: cloudy moisture, or similar literal or virtual obstacle
• Murmur: soothing sound
• Myriad: great number
• Nebulous: indistinct
• Opulent: ostentatious
• Penumbra: shade, shroud, fringe
• Plethora: abundance
• Quiescent: peaceful
• Quintessential: most purely representative or typical
• Radiant: glowing
• Redolent: aromatic, evocative
• Resonant: echoing, evocative
• Resplendent: shining
• Rhapsodic: intensely emotional
• Sapphire: rich, deep bluish purple
• Scintilla: trace
• Serendipitous: chance
• Serene: peaceful
• Somnolent: drowsy, sleep inducing
• Sonorous: loud, impressive, imposing
• Spherical: ball-like, globular
• Sublime: exalted, transcendent
• Succulent: juicy, tasty, rich
• Suffuse: flushed, full
• Susurration: whispering
• Symphony: harmonious assemblage
• Talisman: charm, magical device
• Tessellated: checkered in pattern
• Tranquility: peacefulness
• Vestige: trace
• Zenith: highest point

Ugly Words

• Cacophony: confused noise
• Cataclysm: flood, catastrophe, upheaval
• Chafe: irritate, abrade
• Coarse: common, crude, rough, harsh
• Cynical: distrustful, self-interested
• Decrepit: worn-out, run-down
• Disgust: aversion, distaste
• Grimace: expression of disgust or pain
• Grotesque: distorted, bizarre
• Harangue: rant
• Hirsute: hairy
• Hoarse: harsh, grating
• Leech: parasite,
• Maladroit: clumsy
• Mediocre: ordinary, of low quality
• Obstreperous: noisy, unruly
• Rancid: offensive, smelly
• Repugnant: distasteful
• Repulsive: disgusting
• Shriek: sharp, screeching sound
• Shrill: high-pitched sound
• Shun: avoid, ostracize
• Slaughter: butcher, carnage
• Unctuous: smug, ingratiating
• Visceral: crude, anatomically graphic

Notice how often attractive words present themselves to define other beautiful ones, and note also how many of them are interrelated, and what kind of sensations, impressions, and emotions they have in common. Also, try enunciating beautiful words as if they were ugly, or vice versa. Are their sounds suggestive of their quality, or does their meaning wholly determine their effect on us?

By Mark Nichol

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✗ H E A D E R

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• CAPS; lowercase (Italics)
• CAPS; lowercase (Italics)

✗ HEADER #1

Title → Info
Title → BOLDED [More info about it]
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✦ [B] Lorem ipsum dolor sit

✗ ℋℯader #2 (link to the symbols to make that)

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SOME INTRO CAPS.  And some text after that isn’t as fancy.

✗ Hᴇᴀᴅᴇʀ (small caps generator)

 TITLE // SUBTITLE HERE
basic info or a quote or something

TITLE  // but with bigger text here

T i t l e : and information

Title: Subtitle — [link]

Linked Title → Italics about it

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BIG.  Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Donec ac gravida justo.

001. TITLE - ARTIST (LINK THE SONG ON THE RIGHT) [►]

Some lyrics or text can go here.

✗ ORDERED LISTS

[1] one
ii. two
03. Title - Artist
04. Title | Artist
5. TITLE AND  / The Artist
some lyrics
or text can go here

song title - song artist | song title - song artist | song title - song artist

i. Title // Artist ii. Title // Artist iii. Title // Artist

i. title — artist | ii. title — artist | iii. title — artist

Title - Artist || Title - Artist || Title - Artist

01 : Title - Artist | 02 : Title - Artist | 03 : Title - Artist

title ○ artist :: title ○ artist :: title ○ artist

1 Title » Artist 2 Title » Artist 3 Title » Artist 

(song + artist) // (song + artist) // (song +artist)

{ Title: artist / or something else } { Title: artist / or something else }

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as you see headers can be multiple lines

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