Epic English Words: Dictionary of Beautiful English Vocabulary Words

A Wonderful Book to Explore Interesting Words and Cool-Sounding Names!A curated list of beautiful and often obscure words, but also interesting names from mythology, geography, poetry, literature, music, history, and more. Word lovers will love this book!Unusual and interesting vocabulary, such as: moonglade, brontide, anagalactic, davening, nemorous, soulcraft, twitterlight, circumvolant, meeping, goetic, noetic, welkin, smokefall, cosmoplastic, esperance, soma, sweven, orison, omnishambles, pythonic, protogenic, obnubilate, hamadryad, mellisugent, arcadian, numinous, nepenthe, noctivagant, sylvestral, subnivean, and hemiboreal.Also creative place names (real & imaginary) and names from the arts & sciences, like: Avalonia, Shambhala, Muspelheim, Asphodel Meadows, El Gordo, Aldebaran, parasqualodon, Prufrockian, Devonian, Alfheim, Pavlopetri, Baltis Vallis, Fiddler's Green, Mountains of the Moon, Elysian Fields, Bucephalus, Mongolian death worm, Hesperides, Albion, Ilium, Hibernia, Drakensburg, Xanadu... even Shitlington Crags!This book is part dictionary, part very portable, extremely selective, and curated encyclopedia. This book showcases words and terms that are all interesting for some reason. Some look or sound beautiful; some are strange in a creative way; some esoteric and deep. Many entries include etymologies and quotations from poetry, literature, etc. showing word usage.In populating this book, subjective taste was unavoidable. Why is a star such as Omicron Draconis chosen over other stars? Simply because the author fancies the name itself. Other entries are chosen due to unique features, or beauty of sound, appearance, or meaning.In addition to the many recherché vocabulary words, there are numerous entries from mythology, astronomy, geography, mathematics, zoology, poetry, and literature. Just a few humans are listed as entries (e.g., Finnish poet Runeberg and English astrologer Sepharial). A liberal sprinkling of English's more elegant prefixes (such as: circum-, cosmo-, proto-, ob-, and para-) and suffixes (-esque, -mancy, -escent, -ium, and -genic) are spread throughout this alphabetized volume.“Brevity is the soul of wit” – Shakespeare, HamletThis book was designed to be very portable, very casual – yet intriguing & inspiring. The reader is gently introduced to new & interesting words, to strange, beautiful, or elegant words. If you love these types of words and terms, you will likely love this collection! If you are looking, however, for OED-type definitions with every word sense and comprehensive etymology and pronunciations, this book may not be for you.The 7-page “Supplemental Words of Beauty or Interest” appending this volume lists just the words themselves, without definitions – most (but far from all) definitions are relatively apparent or commonly known. Read more