title: Amazing Words: An Alphabetical Anthology of Alluring, Astonishing, Beguiling, Bewitching, Enchanting, Enthralling, Mesmerizing, Miraculous, Tantalizing, Tempting, and Transfixing Words
author:  Richard Lederer 
description: <P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>"Lederer beguiles and bedazzles."&#160; &#8212;<I>Los Angeles Times</I><br /><br /><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>"Columnist and punster Richard Lederer may be William Safire's only living peer at writing about grammar, word usage, and derivations."&#160; &#8212;<I>Washington Post Book World</I><br /><br /><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>"Richard Lederer's delight in English is itself delightful and contagious!"&#160; &#8212;Edwin Newman, author, <I>Strictly Speaking</I> and <I>A Civil Tongue</I>
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  striking appalling deadly manic inspired bleak rigid jaded disastrous
  exhilarating captivating outstanding wry chiseled crotchety ecstatic
  conscientious genuine dour gripping magnetic nagging erratic spiritual cocky
  tenacity congenial titillating risqué haughty enduring svelte poignant
  eccentric rich achieve aspire challenge chop clarify commit craft create
  dramatize enhance **POWER**
  
  
  erase finagle find finesse generate inspire interrogate interrupt jump lead
  motivate nip organize oversee pepper pinch plan raise rally rouse save shake
  strategize surpass trump tweeze unveil win zoom striking appalling deadly
  manic inspired bleak rigid jaded disastrous exhilarating captivating
  outstanding wry chiseled crotchety ecstatic conscientious genuine dour
  gripping magnetic nagging erratic spiritual cocky tenacity congenial
  titillating risqué haughty enduring svelte poignant eccentric rich achieve
  aspire challen