When I'm thinking about adding a word I'll put it here for a while. If you have strong feelings about it let me know.
Word: fecund
Synonymous with: fertile
Example: Ginina P. writes:
Example: from the novel The Noticers by Elizabeth Kadetsky:
It's hard times for crazy folk, this week. They are a part of our ecosystem, a little off always, but this week blossoming and redolent and fecund in the ways they are strange.
I object to this word on the grounds that it sounds ugly. It somehow smacks of both 'fetus' and 'fungus' in one discordant swoop.
I think it's a common enough word to not make the list, but I'm willing to be persuaded.