What are some good words for my book?

Question

I'm making a book and I need some really good words. Not long just normal words like Disappointing. PLease give me as many answers as possible thanks.

Answer 1

I learned a great word today: kenopsia, a noun. It's the feeling when someplace which is usually busy with people is empty, like an airport or school.

Answer 2

I wouldn't use big, long winded words. Like Beautiful Nightmare said, it can backfire on you, and sometimes you end up using a synonym of a word, which has a slightly different meaning of the same word you intended to use, which may end up being worse. Also, I tend to see that people who try and use long winded words tend to also use a lot of purple prose, which is another bit 'no no' in writing.



Write naturally and use words that everyone will understand. I hate it more than anything when I'm reading a book and then suddenly the author throws in a big word that I don't understand, which tears me away from the story and causes me to look it up in the dictionary.





Good luck

Answer 3

Some of my favourite words are:



supercilious, confabulation, anabasis, meretricious, farrago, inveigle, persiflage, cacoethes, aopdictic, ubiquitous, inexorable, somniferous, macrobian, macroscian, edipol, effluvium, fodder, pilloried, phthisis, bildungsroman, mumpsimus, sumpsimus, ectopic, paronymous, integument, banausic, sardanapalian, chockablock, abstergent, apoplectic

Answer 4

Bad idea. When a writer tries using big words to make their writing look intellectual it always backfires - use vocabulary which you use "naturally", and don't use big words that sound posh. Sometimes it can look worse.