<p>'Quidditch' :-P</p>
<p>Ahh!!! That's so awesome! Haha, I wish I had referenced Harry Potter more in my application (I mean, it doesn't really matter either way) but I really do love Harry Potter a lot. I did, however, put Hermione as my role model on most other applications.</p>
<p>"philanderer" :):)</p>
<p>At least before they reject me, the Princeton admissions officers will have a good laugh.</p>
<p>indefatigable</p>
<p>bittersweet</p>
<p>Haha e<em>a</em>d I still can't believe you put that down. Well, I can believe it, but still. My parents read and reread my application before clicking submit for me, lol.</p>
<p>"Dude" would have been an amazing choice.</p>
<p>I put "go" as my favorite word, because it's important in one of my favorite poems, Theodore Roethke's "The Waking"</p>
<p>"I learn by going where I have to go..."</p>
<p>platypus :)</p>
<p>i put serendipity</p>
<p>trabajaba.
(My friend told me I should've put down "anal", which is her favorite word...of course, I didn't)</p>
<p>Wow, samgee, my second favorite word in Spanish is "trabaj?bamos"--we were working. My favorite word in Spanish is "comercializaci?n" because it's the only word I can think of that has three lisps in it (if pronounced in proper Spanish). </p>
<p>But for my application, I put "effervescent." You guys picked some wonderful words. It's been a fun thread to read.</p>
<p>Agreed, very fun thread. :D</p>
<p>"juxtaposition." i've worked it into every single essay i've had to write in high school.</p>
<p>wysiwyg .</p>
<p>Oh, so have I! :D (Over-used 'juxtaposition', that is.) Even when it's thoroughly out of context -- I remember a line about 'juxtaposing the dichotomy of the [something or other] against the [something else that had 'anarchist' and 'hegemony' in it]'. </p>
<p>(Context: my school system's English courses are about as exciting as a wet rag (and significantly less useful). One has to do something to liven up the painfully dull letter-writing and whatnot, and I tend to get rather sesquipedalian while I'm doing it. :D)</p>
<p>Ah... I remember opening an essay of mine (In a curriculum mildly less soul-destroying as Noldo's) with a quotation in Greek. (Ancient)</p>
<p>Fun. :D</p>
<p>And of course quoting Stephen Colbert in an essay on truth. (I love nelogism)</p>
<p>juxtaposition rivals only dichotomy and myriad in my book. :)</p>
<p>'S not 'mildly' less soul-destroying, Shrivats. It's rather a lot less soul-destroying. (Not having to write letters of complaint/letters to the editor/classified advertisements, and being able to express actual intelligent thought in your literary analyses == saving about seventy percent of your soul. Or at least 69.9998.) :p</p>
<p>I'll give you that, though I think we'll settle for a round 42 % of soul saved. :)</p>
<p>(We've got guided essays. *shudders)</p>
<p>boondoggle .</p>