Favorite words

Epic
-adjective
1. noting or pertaining to a long poetic composition, usually centered upon a hero, in which a series of great achievements or events is narrated in elevated style: Homer's Iliad is an epic poem.
2. heroic; majestic; impressively great: the epic events of the war.
3. of unusually great size or extent: a crime wave of epic proportions.

Brutal
–adjective
1. savage; cruel; inhuman: a brutal attack on the village.
2. crude; coarse: brutal language.
3. harsh; ferocious: brutal criticism; brutal weather.
4. taxing, demanding, or exhausting: They're having a brutal time making ends meet.
5. irrational; unreasoning.
6. of or pertaining to lower animals.

Nitro
-adjective
1. Chemistry. containing the nitro group.
2. Colloquial: describes a person, place or thing as being unequivocally, quintessentially spectacular and dumbfounding (UD).

Granola
–noun
A breakfast food consisting of rolled oats, brown sugar, nuts, dried fruit, etc., usually served with milk.
-adjective
A person who dresses like a hippie, eats natural foods (granola), and is usually a Liberal, but in all other ways is a typical middle class white person, and is likely to revert back to being straight when they finish college (UD).

...and, I almost forgot (gasp! thanks, egalitarian-liberated-life-partner!):

SALT
-noun
A crystalline compound, sodium chloride, NaCl, occurring as a mineral, a constituent of seawater, etc., and used for seasoning food, as a preservative, etc.
-interjection
1. expression of distaste or unhappiness about a situation (UD)
2. describing something unfortunate or unfavorable happening, or one's angered mood (UD).