A thread of @MariahCarey's vocabulary

-Abandonedly – “Butterfly,” Butterfly
”For you have become a butterfly / Oh, fly abandonedly into the sun”

-Abruptly - “Honey,” Butterfly
“And it’s too hard for me to leave abruptly / ‘Cause you’re the only thing I wanna do”
-Abundant – “Yours,” Charmbracelet
”Everyday of my life’s so abundant with joy”

-Accentuate – “Migrate,” E=MC²
”It might benefit me to throw something on / To feature my hips, accentuate my tits and steal the show”
-Acquiescent – “It’s a Wrap,” Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel
“I was oh so acquiescent (acquiescent)“

-Alienation – “Vision of Love,” Mariah Carey
“Suffered from alienation / Carried the weight on my own”
-Alleviate – “Want You,” Glitter
“It’s just the feeling that comes over me I cannot alleviate”

-Ambiguous - “Outside,” Butterfly
“Always somewhat out of place everywhere, ambiguous”
-Apprehension – “The Roof,” Butterfly
“I was twisted in the web of my desire for you / My apprehension blew away”
-Atrocities – “Fly Like a Bird,” The Emancipation of Mimi
“Somehow I know that there’s a place up above / With no more hurt and struggling, free of all atrocities and suffering”

-Audacity – “The Art of Letting Go”
”Your audacity is too much to be believed”
-Captivates – “To Be Around You,” Emotions
“Every time you smile it captivates my mind”

-Cascades – “Sunflowers for Alfred Roy,” Charmbracelet
”I’m picturing you and me there right now as the crystal cascades showered down”
-Compulsively – “Shake It Off,” The Emancipation of Mimi
“You would cheat with all your freaks and lie compulsively”

-Conceive – “Someday,” Mariah Carey
“Maybe now you just can’t conceive / That there’ll ever come a time when you’re cold and lonely”
-Consequently - “Clown,” Charmbracelet
“Consequently now your ego’s fully overblown”

-Delectable – “Bliss,” Rainbow
“So gimme some pure delectable love like I’m gonna give to you”
-Delusional – “Obsessed,” Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel
“You’re delusional, you’re delusional / Boy, you’re losin’ your mind”

-Denominator - “It’s a Wrap,” Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel
“It’s goin’ down like a denominator”
-Desolate - “Thank God I Found You”, Rainbow
“See I was so desolate before you came to me”

-Despair – “You’re So Cold,” Emotions
“You just laugh as I drown in despair”
Despondency - “Petals,” Rainbow
“A boy and a girl befriended me / We’re bonded through despondency” (see also The Emancipation of Mimi’s “Fly Like a Bird”: “Sometimes I’m so despondent”)
Destitution – “There’s Got to Be A Way,” Mariah Carey
“And maybe then the future will be a time / Without War, destitution and sorrow” (see also Charmbracelet’s “My Saving Grace”: “Grew up confused, been destitute”)
-Devious – “You Had Your Chance,” Charmbracelet
“I can see you were devious and shady, only trifling with me”

-Diminishing – “Anytime You Need a Friend,” Music Box
“When the shadows are closing in / And your spirit’s diminishing”
-Disenchanted – “Looking In,” Daydream
“Don’t think that I am disenchanted”

-Disillusion – “Dreamlover,” Music Box
”I don’t want another pretender / To disillusion me one more time”
-Displaced - “Reflections (Care Enough),” Glitter
“A displaced little girl wept years in silence / And whispered wishes you’d materialize”

-Dissipate - “Close My Eyes,” Butterfly
“I left the worst unsaid, let it all dissipate and I try to forget”
-Dissuade – “4real4real,” E=MC²
“All my friends say I’m wastin’ my time on you / Tryin’ to dissuade me with schemes”

-Distraught – “Through the Rain,” Charmbracelet
“When you’re distraught and in pain without anyone...”
-Diversion – “Now That I Know,” Music Box
“I never knew if I could believe in you / I thought I was just a diversion”

-Dominion – “The Art of Letting Go”
“I no longer live in your dominion”
-Downhearted - “Subtle Invitation,” Charmbracelet
“You don’t ever have to be downhearted again”

-Dutifully – “Petals,” Rainbow
“So many I considered closest to me turned on a dime and sold me out dutifully”
-Effervescent – “Twister,” Glitter
“But basically she kept it all inside / Childlike and effervescent with a well of pain”

-Effortlessly – “Subtle Invitation,” Charmbracelet
“You can fall into me / Once again effortlessly”
-Elude – “You Got Me,” Charmbracelet
“I’m entangled up in you these feelings I just can’t elude”
-Elusive – “Honey,” Butterfly
“I can’t be elusive with you honey / ‘Cause it’s blatant that I’m feeling you” (see also The Emancipation of Mimi’s “One and Only”: “Is this just an impossible dream too elusive to pursue?”)
-Emblazoned – “My All,” Butterfly
“I can see you clearly, vividly emblazoned in my mind”

-Empathy – “O.O.C.,” E=MC²
“So sorry, whatever happened to empathy?”
-Enamored – “How Much,” Rainbow
“Have you ever been so enamored baby? / That’s how much I love you”

-Endlessly – “You’re So Cold,” Emotions
“You keep me waiting around endlessly”
-Enfold – “Babydoll,” Butterfly
“Come lay me down, enfold me in your arms, cover me with velvet kisses”

-Enmity – “Languishing,” Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel
“And after all these years of enmity, envy and tears / It’s a shame you don’t know me at all”
-Enraptured – “Vanishing,” Mariah Carey
“I was so enraptured / No sensibility”

-Entwined – “Fourth of July,” Butterfly
“And we floated away / Delicately lay entwined in an intimate daze”
-Euphoric – “Heartbreaker,” Rainbow
“It’s a shame to be so euphoric and weak when you smile at me”

-Everlasting – “Always Be My Baby,” Daydream
“And it seemed everlasting, that you would always be mine”
-Evidently – “The Art of Letting Go”
”Evidently your words were merely lies”

-Exceedingly – “The Art of Letting Go”
”Oh, it’s just exceedingly hurtful”
-Fathom – “Sent Up from Above,” Mariah Carey
“It’s hard to fathom/ Reaching for someone else’s hand”

-Fervid – “Fourth of July,” Butterfly
“So starry eyed on the flowery hillside / Breathless and fervid amid the dandelions”
-Flailing - “Petals”, Rainbow
“She started flailing in the wind / Like golden petals scattering”

-Flaxen - “Sunflowers for Alfred Roy,” Charmbracelet
“Thank you for embracing a flaxen-haired baby”
-Flourish – “Butterfly,” Butterfly
“I have learned that beauty has to flourish in the light”

-Futile – “When I Feel It,” outtake
”Make futile resolutions that I’m gonna let you be”
-Grotto – “More Than Just Friends,” Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel
“We can make love in Italy in the grotto”

-Harbors – “Looking In,” Daydream
“You’ll never know the real me / She smiles through a thousand tears and harbors adolescent fears”
-Hastily - “You Need Me”, Mariah Carey
“Before you act so hastily / Baby remember you need me”

-Hectic – “Fantasy,” Daydream
“I get kind of hectic inside”
-Idolization - “Babydoll,” Butterfly
“Do you care for me beyond idolization?”

-Inadvertently – “You Got Me,” Charmbracelet
“You’re so captivating that I inadvertently always catch myself thinking ‘bout the things you do”
-Incandescent – “Never Too Far,” Glitter
“Glittering lights, incandescent eyes”

-Incessantly – “Heartbreaker,” Rainbow
“Heartbreaker you’ve got the best of me/ But I just keep on comin’ back incessantly”
-Incidentally – “So Lonely (One and Only Part II),” The Emancipation of Mimi
“Incidentally, I’m in need of healin’ / You’re the only one who gives me that feelin’”

-Indefinitely - “Always Be My Baby,” Daydream
“You’ll always be a part of me / I’m part of you indefinitely”
-Inevitably - “Always Be My Baby,” Daydream
“But inevitably, you’ll be back again / ‘Cause you know in your heart, babe, our love will never end”

-Inferiority – “I Wish You Knew,” The Emancipation of Mimi
“See, my inferiority complex kicks in and the words escape me”
-Inherently – “Outside,” Butterfly
“Inherently, it’s just always been strange”

-Intertwined – “Touch My Body,” E=MC²
“In the lap of luxury, laying intertwined with me / You won’t want for nothing, boy”
-Intimated - “Clown,” Charmbracelet
“You shoulda never intimated we were lovers”

-Intoxicated – “Emotions,” Emotions
“I’m in love, I’m alive / Intoxicated, flying high”
-Intrinsic – “Subtle Invitation,” Charmbracelet
“You’ll always be an intrinsic part of me / Even though life goes on”

-Irregularities - “For the Record,” E=MC²
“Them other irregularities / They can’t compete with MC”
-Levity – “I’m That Chick,” E=MC²
“I brings that levity / Take me for a ride”

-Liability – “The Art of Letting Go”
”You’re just trifling, nothing more than a liability”
-Majestically - “One Child”, Merry Christmas II You
“The sweet prince of peace / Lay majestically asleep glorious and pure”

-Marionette – “Clown,” Charmbracelet
“A marionette show”
-Masquerade – “Now That I Know,” Music Box
“This is not make believe anymore I was afraid / It was all a masquerade” (see also Charmbracelet’s “I Only Wanted”: “I was caught in your masquerade,” and E=MC²’s “Thanx 4 Nothin’”: “I was living in a lie, just a masquerade”)
-Materialize - “Reflections (Care Enough),” Glitter
“A displaced little girl wept years in silence / And whispered wishes you’d materialize”

-Merely - “The Art of Letting Go”
”Evidently your words were merely lies”
-Miniscule – “I Wish You Well,” E=MC²
“If my shows of gratitude are miniscule inside your mind, sorry”

-Misrepresented – “It’s a Wrap,” Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel
“If I ever misrepresented my self-image then I’m sorry”
-Nonchalant – “Breakdown,” Butterfly
“Well, I guess I’m trying to be nonchalant about it / And I’m going to extremes to prove I’m fine without you”

-Nothingness – “And You Don’t Remember,” Emotions
“Stranded here in nothingness / With only tears and loneliness”
-Oblivious – “I’ve Been Thinking About You,” Music Box
“The one I spent a lifetime searching for was right here all the time / I was oblivious, so very out of touch” (see also Butterfly’s “Close My Eyes”: “Nearing the edge, oblivious, I almost fell right over”)
-Obscure – “Underneath the Stars,” Daydream
“Laughing, we hurried beneath the sky / To an obscure place to hide”

-Ominously – “Fourth of July,” Butterfly
“Thunder clouds hung around so threateningly, ominously hovering”
-Painstakingly – “Want You,” Glitter
“I had a crush on you / Painstakingly I would conceal the truth”

-Patriarch - “Petals,” Rainbow
“I gravitated towards a patriarch, so young predictably”
-Peculiar – “I’ve Been Thinking About You,” Music Box
“I’ve been thinking about you in the most peculiar way”
-Persevere – “Yours,” Charmbracelet
“Baby, our love will always persevere” (see also The Emancipation of Mimi’s “Don’t Forget About Us”: “What we had, it perseveres / That we both can’t forget it, how good we used to get it”
-Persuasive – “So Lonely (One and Only Part II),” The Emancipation of Mimi
“You’re too persuasive, I can’t take it”

-Prevail – “Through the Rain,” Charmbracelet
“You’ll find what you need to prevail”
-Proceed - “Migrate,” E=MC²
“As we proceed getting buzzed, the envious ones hating but they can’t take they eyes off us”

-Procrastinating – “Stay the Night,” The Emancipation of Mimi
“Obviously procrastinating just to be close to you a little longer now”
-Pseudo – “Thanx 4 Nothin’,” E=MC²
“Seems like all I do is think about our pseudo-romance”
-Rationalize – “Last Kiss,” E=MC²
“Picture you in my mind and I can’t seem to rationalize the way we let it end, it don’t make no sense”

-Reassurance - “How Much,” Rainbow
“You don’t gotta look for reassurance, ‘cause clearly you’re the only one that’s getting this”
-Relinquish – “Heartbreaker,” Rainbow
“And you tell me things that you know persuade me to relinquish my love to you”

-Reluctantly - “Underneath the Stars,” Daydream
“Reluctantly we said goodbye and left our secret place so far behind”
-Rendered - “When I Saw You,” Daydream
“And I was rendered still / There were no words for me to find at all”

-Reverberating - “The Art of Letting Go”
”Evidently your words were merely lies, reverberating in my ears and the echo won’t subside”
-Reverie – “Melt Away,” Daydream
“You and me in a cloud of reverie / Spin around inside my head unendingly”
-Rhapsodize – “Melt Away,” Daydream
“Thoughts run wild as I sit and rhapsodize / Paint pretty pictures of what I’d do if you were mine” (see also Rainbow’s “Did I Do That?”: “Things you would never do you rhapsodize and get caught up in the hype”)
-Romanticized – “I Only Wanted,” Charmbracelet
“Foolishly I romanticized someone was saving my life”
-Serenity – “Angels Cry,” Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel
“I thought we’d be forever and always / You were serenity, you took away the bad days”

-Solace – “Never Too Far,” Glitter
“In the memories there is solace”
-Solidarity – “I Wish You Well,” E=MC²
“I truly wanted solidarity / Still wearing my blinders back then”

-Solitude – “My All,” Butterfly
“I am thinking of you in my sleepless solitude tonight”
-Splendor – “The Roof,” Butterfly
“I envision you caressing me and go back in time / To relive the splendor of you and I on the rooftop that rainy night”

-Steadfastly – “Through the Rain,” Charmbracelet
“Keep pressing on steadfastly”
-Stigmatized – “My Saving Grace,” Charmbracelet
“Been stigmatized, been black and white”

-Subconscious - “Babydoll,” Butterfly
“My subconscious seems to weave itself around you”
-Sublime – “Underneath the Stars,” Daydream
“And the feeling was so heady and sublime”
-Subside – “Thank God I Found You,” Rainbow
“The hurt from the heartache would not subside” (See also “The Art of Letting Go”: “Evidently your words were merely lies, reverberating in my ears and the echo won’t subside”)
-Succumb – “Butterfly,” Butterfly
“It’s easy to succumb to overwhelming fears inside”

-Supremacy - “There’s Got To Be A Way”, Mariah Carey
“In another land they still believe / Color grants supremacy”
-Surpasses – “Sent Up from Above,” Mariah Carey
“What we have surpasses / Even paradise” (see also Charmbracelet’s “Yours”: “You surpass all my fantasies”)

-Surreal – “For the Record,” E=MC²
“Suddenly you’re here and it’s so surreal / And I don’t know what the deal”
-Taunt – “I Only Wanted,” Charmbracelet
“Abandonment returns to taunt me again”

-Tentatively – “Fourth of July,” Butterfly
“Tentatively kissed goodnight, and went our separate ways”
-Thee – “Music Box,” Music Box
“All I have I wannna give to thee”

-Transcending – “When I Saw You,” Daydream
“Soft heavenly eyes gazed into me transcending space and time”
-Unclouded – “I Am Free,” Daydream
“You gave me a breath of life / Unclouded my eyes with sweet serenity”

-Undressable – “ #Beautiful
“Ooh you make me feel undressable”
-Undividedness – “Petals,” Rainbow
“I’ve always longed for undividedness and sought stability”

-Unfailingly – “Forever,” Daydream
“Unfailingly, I will return to your arms and unburden your heart”
-Unloosed – “Ribbon,” Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel
“Boy I’m all wrapped up in you / You make me feel so unloosed”

-Untimely – “Crybaby,” Rainbow
“I think of our untimely end and everything we could have been I cry, baby I cry”
-Unvarnished – “Thank God I Found You,” Rainbow
“After so much suffering I finally found unvarnished truth”

-Unwavering – “Triumphant (Vintage Throwback Remix)“
”All you need is to remain unwavering.”
-Unyielding – “Breakdown,” Butterfly
”Immediately I pretended to be feeling similarly and led you to believe / I was OK to just walk away from the one thing that’s unyielding and sacred to me.”

-Uplifting – “Dreamlover,” Music Box
“I need somebody uplifting / To take me away”
-Ventilation – “Obsessed,” Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel
“Gaspin’ for air / I’m ventilation”

-Verbalize – “How Much,” Rainbow
“The way I feel for you I can’t describe / It’s almost too intense to verbalize”
-Vicinity – “Betcha Gon’ Know (The Prologue),” Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel
“It’s too dangerous to be in the vicinity of where you are”
-Wane - “Sunflowers for Alfred Roy,” Charmbracelet
“Hard to see the life wane as the days went by” (see also the outtake “When I Feel It”: “My defenses start to wane”)

-Wayward – “Close My Eyes,” Butterfly
“I was a wayward child with the weight of the world”
-Woeful – “Clown,” Charmbracelet
“I shoulda never listened to your woeful stories / The ones I’m sure you told a thousand times before me”
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