WORDS I LIKE LATELY

WORDS I LIKE LATELY

Naturally, a writer is nothing without words.

Here are some rather entrancing new ones I’ve come across lately.

Mellifluous

Pleasingly smooth and musical to hear

Ne Plus Ultra

The perfect or most extreme example of its kind; the ultimate

Sanguine

Optimistic or positive, especially in an apparently bad or difficult situation

Garrulous

Excessively talkative, especially on trivial matters

Ersatz

Not real or genuine

Contumacious

Stubbornly or wilfully disobedient to authority

Lilliputian

Trivial or very small

Saccharine

Excessively sweet or sentimental

Hitherto

Until now or until the point in time