Something I learnt recently and which is rampant on gay social apps: sphallolalia - flirting that doesn't lead to meeting irl.
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Lugubrious - because it means the opposite of how it sounds!
It's fun to say, but is defined as sadness, which the word can't evoke
Salitter is my answer to this one every time.
The silence. TheΒ salitterΒ drying from the earth. The mudstained shapes of flooded cities burned to the waterline. At a crossroads a ground set with dolmen stones where the spoken bones of oracles lay moldering. No sound but the wind.
Here, also.
Jocund: cheerful and lighthearted.
From Romeo and Juliet:
Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day
Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.
Defenestrate means to throw out of a window.
For example, "Someone should defenestrate Putin."
Seems like every time you use it you'll end up having to explain what it means unless you're playing D&D
Hysteresis, the last between doing something and it's outcome. See also: hysteretic.
Crepuscular. Related to twilight, dimness, the golden hour.
Verantwortungsbewusstsein. Let's get back to our roots.
perseveration