Mutterings and Musings

Words

Challenge: In your entry, make a list of your favorite words to say. Then describe why they are your favorites and include a pronunciation guide for your readers. Brownie points if you can use your words in a sentence.

I have a number of favourite words and funnily enough I was thinking about this very question a few days ago (as in before the prompt was posted, because I'm late in responding).
Surreptitious; adjective, meaning something being kept secret, in particular something that might not be approved of. Pronounced ser-rup-tish-us.
I love that surreptitious sounds secretive. You've got that shhhh sound in the middle and I find (for me) it conjures up both dark alleys and mysterious strangers and dead-drops, and yet also children whispering in pillow forts and sharing sweeties. Danger and innocence. Fear and excitement. Terror and giggles.

With a surreptitious motion, the mage twitched his fingers and the box disappeared.

Library; if I need to describe that here, the you're on the wrong website. And hopefully I don't need to give a pronunciation guide or explain myself. But hey, it's a damn good word; whether it's a book-nook in your own home, an e-reader in your backpack, a vaulted cavern lined with dusty scrolls, or the more pedestrian and still wonderful public library full of dogeared large print novels, a library is one of the most wondrous places on Earth.

That scene, that scene in Beauty & The Beast. You know the one, when he just gives her the most glorious library ever envisioned.