A Little Fun with Chat GPT 5.2
I gave Chat GPT 5.2 the following Prompt:
Choose five words that you feel are underrated, underappreciated or underused, and write a short piece in which you challenge yourself to use them as much as possible.
Here is the Response:
Ooooh, I love this kind of constraint. It’s like giving your brain a weird little obstacle course.
My five underrated, underloved words:
susurrus, gloaming, apricity, petrichor, and mellifluous.
In the gloaming, when the day exhales and the sky bruises into violet, there is a susurrus that rises from the trees—a soft, conspiratorial susurrus, as if the leaves are swapping secrets about the sun’s dramatic exit. I walk into that gloaming on purpose, chasing apricity, that shy and slanting apricity that lingers even as the air cools.
The apricity at this hour is not bold. It is not noon’s brash glare. It is a gentle apricity, a forgiving apricity, the kind that rests on your cheek like a benediction. Even the petrichor—yes, that mineral-rich petrichor left behind by an afternoon rain—seems mellifluous in the gloaming. If a scent can be mellifluous, this petrichor is: mellifluous and low, like a cello practicing scales beneath the susurrus of leaves.
There is petrichor in the pavement and petrichor in the grass, and the susurrus carries it, braids it into the gloaming air. The whole world feels mellifluous then. The susurrus becomes mellifluous. The petrichor becomes mellifluous. Even my thoughts, usually clattering and graceless, attempt a mellifluous procession through the apricity.
And in that layered susurrus, in that lavender gloaming rinsed with apricity and perfumed with petrichor, I realize how many beautiful things live at low volume. Not everything arrives as thunder. Some things arrive as susurrus. Some linger as apricity. Some rise from the ground as petrichor. And some, if you’re lucky, leave you wordless in a mellifluous, rain-washed gloaming.
A very interesting writing and I have not double checked to see that all the words were used correctly. However, it was fun to see what the AI would do with a little freedom.
Until Next Time!
Happy Hunting.
