I have recently become a bit of a nerd when it comes to words. I love how letters strung together, form a cohesive thought. Words can be powerful, graceful, strong, weak, authentic and beautiful.

Here are 35 beautiful English words you need to start using more often:

1. Ailurophile.

A cat-lover.

2. Becoming.

Attractive.

3. Brood.

To think alone.

4. Conflate.

To blend together.

5. Demure.

Shy and reserved.

6. Dulcent.

Sweet, sugary.

7. Effervescent.

Bubbly.

8. Efflorescence.

Flowering, blooming.

9. Eloquent.

Beauty and persuasion in speech.

10. Ephemeral.

Short-lived.

11. Evanescent.

Vanishing quickly, lasting a very short time.

12. Fetching.

Pretty.

13. Felicity.

Pleasantness.

14. Gambol.

To skip or leap joyfully.

15. Halcyon.

Happy, sunny, care-free.

16. Imbue.

To infuse, instill.

17. Inglenook.

A cozy nook by the hearth.

18. Labyrinthine.

Twisting, turning.

19. Mellifluous.

Sweet sounding.

20. Offing.

The sea between the horizon and the offshore.

21. Opulent.

Lush, luxuriant.

22. Panacea.

A solution for all problems.

23. Petrichor.

The smell of the earth after rain.

24. Quintessential.

Most essential.

25. Redolent.

Fragrant.

26. Ripple.

A small wave.

27. Scintilla.

A spark or very small thing.

28. Sempiternal.

Eternal.

29. Summery.

Light, delicate or warm and sunny.

30. Susurrous.

Whispering.

31. Untoward.

Unseemly.

32. Vestigial.

In trace amounts.

33. Wafture.

Waving.

34. Wherewithal.

The means.

35. Woebegone.

Sorrowful, downcast.