Monster List Of Power Words by Jon Marrow

THE MONSTER LIST OF

POWER WORDS
595 Emotion-Packed Words and Phrases
That’ll Instantly Make You a Better Writer

By Jon Marrow

Words to Provoke Fear

Fear is without a doubt the most powerful emotion for grabbing and keeping an
audience’s attention.

Agony
Apocalypse
Armageddon
Assault

Backlash
Beating
Beware
Blinded
Blood
Bloodbath
Bloodcurdling
Bloody
Blunder

Bomb
Buffoon
Bumbling

Cadaver
Catastrophe
Caution
Collapse
Corpse
Crazy
Cripple
Crisis

Danger
Deadly
Death
Deceiving
Destroy
Devastating
Disastrous

Doom
Drowning
Dumb

Embarrass

Fail
Feeble

Fired

Fool
Fooled
Frantic
Frightening

Gambling
Gullible

Hack
Hazardous

Hoax
Holocaust
Horrific

Hurricane

Injure
Insidious
Invasion
IRS

Jail

Jeopardy

Lawsuit
Looming

Lunatic
Lurking

Massacre
Meltdown
Menacing
Mired

Mistake
Murder

Nightmare

Painful
Pale
Panic

Peril
Piranha

Pitfall

Plague
Played
Plummet

Plunge
Poison
Poor

Prison

Reckoning
Refugee
Revenge
Risky

ScaryScream

Searing
Shatter
Shellacking

Silly
Slaughter
Slave

Strangle
Stupid

Tailspin

Tank
Targeted
Teetering

Terror
Terrorist
Torture

Toxic
Tragedy
Trap

Vaporize
Victim
Volatile

Vulnerable

Warning
Worry Wounded

Words to Encourage and Energize

Wake your readers from their stupor with words that infuse energy and
enthusiasm.

Amazing
Ascend

Astonishing
Astounding
Audacious

Awe-inspiring
Awesome

Backbone

Badass
Beat
Belief

Blissful
Bravery
Breathtaking

Brilliant

Celebrate
Cheer

Colossal
Command
Conquer

Courage

Daring
Defeat

Defiance
Delight
Devoted

Dignity
Dominate

Effortless

Empower
Epic
Excellent

Excited
Extraordinary
Eye-opening

Fabulous
Faith
Fantastic

Fearless
Ferocious
Fierce

Force
Fulfill

Glorious

Glory
Graceful
Grateful
Grit
Guts

Happy
Heart
Hero
Honor
Hope

Incredible

Jaw-dropping
Jubilant

Legend
Life-changing

Magic
Marvelous
Master
Mind-blowing
Miracle
Miraculous

Noble

Perfect
Persuade
Phenomenal
Pluck
Power-up
Praise
Prevail

Remarkable
Revel
Rule

Score
Seize
Sensational
Spectacular
Spine
Spirit
Splendid
Spunk
Staggering
Strengthen
Striking
Strong
Stunning
Stunt
Supreme
Surprising

Terrific
Thrive
Thwart
Titan
Tough
Triumph
Tremendous

Unbeatable
Unbelievable
Unforgettable
Unique
Unleash
Uplifting

Valient
Valor
Vanquish
Victory

Win
Wonderful
Wondrous

Words to Elicit Desire

Like it or not, sex sells, so tap into the provocative power of lust to lure your

Allure
Arouse

Bare
Begging
Beguiling
Brazen

Captivating
Charm
Cheeky
Climax
Crave

Delight
Delirious
Depraved
Desire
Dirty
Divine

Ecstasy
Embrace
Enchant
Enthralling
Entice
Entrance
Excite
Explicit
Exposed

Fascinate
Forbidden
Frisky

Goosebumps

Hanker
Heavenly
Hottest
Hypnotic

Impure
Indecent

Intense
Intoxicating
Itching

Juicy

Kinky
Kiss

Lascivious
Lewd
Lick
Lonely
Longing
Love
Lure
Luscious
Lush
Lust

Mischievous
Mouth-watering

Naked
Naughty
Nude

Obscene
Orgasmic

Passionate
Pining
Pleasure
Provocative

Racy
Raunchy
Risque
Rowdy

Salacious
Satisfy
Saucy
Scandalous

Seduce
Seductive
Sensual
Sex
Shameless
Sinful
Sleazy
Sleeping
Spank
Spellbinding
Spicy
Steamy
Stimulating
Strip
Sweaty

Tantalizing
Taste
Tawdry
Tease
Tempting
Thrilling
Tickle
Tight
Tingle
Turn on

Unabashed
Uncensored
Untamed
Untouched
Urge

Voluptuous
Vulgar

Wanton
Wet
Whip
Wild

X-rated
Yearning
Yummy

Words to Incite Anger

Snap people from apathy to action using words that connect with your readers’
anger.

Abhorrent
Abuse
Annoying
Arrogant
Ass kicking

Backstabbing
Barbaric
Bash
Beat down
Big mouth
Blatant
Brutal
Bullshit
Bully

Cheat
Clobber
Clown
Cocky
Corrupt
Coward
Crooked
Crush
Curse

Debase
Defile
Delinquent
Demolish
Desecrate
Disgusting
Dishonest
Distorted

Evil
Exploit
Evil

Force-fed
Foul
Freaking out
Full of shit

Greedy

Gross

Harass
Hate
High and mighty
Horrid

Infuriating

Jackass

Kick
Kill
Knock
Knock out
Know it all

Lies
Livid
Loathsome
Loser
Lying

Maul
Misleading
Money-grubbing

Nasty
Nazi
No good

Obnoxious
Oppressive

Pain in the ass
Payback
Perverse
Pesky
Pest
Phony
Pissed off
Pollute
Pompous
Pound
Preposterous

Pretentious
Punch
Punish

Rampant
Ravage
Repelling
Repugnant
Revile
Revolting
Rotten
Rude
Ruined
Ruthless

Savage
Scam
Scold
Sick and tired
Sink
Slam
Slander
Slap
Slay
Smash
Smear
Smug
Sniveling
Snob
Snooty
Snotty
Spoil
Stuck up
Suck

Terrorize
Trash
Trounce
Tyranny

Underhanded
Up to here

Violate

Words to Grapple with Greed

Because whether they desire to make or save it, every human on the planet is
interested in money.

Bank
Bargain
Best
Billion
Bonanza
Booked solid

Cash
Cheap
Costly

Discount
Dollar
Double

Explode
Ext

Feast
Fortune
Free

Freebie
Frenzy
Frugal

Gift
Golden
Greatest

High-paying

Inexpensive

Jackpot

Lowest price
Luxurious

Marked down
Massive
Money
Money-draining
Money-saving

Nest egg

Pay zero
Prize
Profit

Quadruple

Reduced
Rich

Savings
Six-figure
Skyrocket
Soaring
Surge

Treasure
Triple

Waste
Wealth
Whopping

Words to Grapple Ensure Security

Choose words that make your readers feel safe, and you’ll more easily gain their
confidence and trust

Above and beyond
Anonymous
Authentic
Automatic

Backed
Bankable
Best-selling

Cancel anytime
Certified
Clockwork

Endorsed

Foolproof

Guaranteed

Ironclad

Lifetime

Money-back

No obligation
No questions asked
No risk
No strings attached
No-fail

Official

Permanent
Privacy
Professional
Protected
Proven

Recession-proof
Refund
Reliable
Research
Results

Risk-free
Rock-solid

Science-backed
Scientific
Secure
Sure-fire
Survive

Tested
That never fails
Thorough
Trustworthy
Try before you buy

Unconditional

Verify

World-class

Words to Trigger Temptation

The truth is, we’re all fascinated by the mysterious and forbidden, so intrigue
readers by sprinkling these power words throughout your writing.

Ancient

Backdoor
Banned
Behind the scenes
Black Market
Blacklisted
Bootleg

Censored
Classified
Cloak and dagger
Concealed
Confessions
Confidential
Controversial
Covert
Cover-up

Exotic

Forbidden
Forgotten
From the vault

Hidden
Hush-hush

Illegal
Insider

Little-known
Lost

Never seen before

Off the record
Off-limits
Outlawed

Private

Restrict

Sealed
Secret
Smuggled
Strange

Tried to hide

Unauthorized
Uncensored
Under wraps
Undercover
Underground
Under-the-table
Undisclosed
Unexpected
Unlock
Unreachable
Unspoken
Unveiled

Withheld