Abstract: (The sounding box of words): In this work, we will focus on some lexical and semantic details that convert language units into complex, unique universes to explore. Bărăgănist, for example, with the plural bărăgănişti, a term not recorded in the lexicographic works, is, in Romanian, a noun formed from the toponym Bărăgan. It sends, transparently, for those who know the history of the Romanian people, to events that took place on Pentecost, on June 17-18, 1951, when thousands of people were deported to the Bărăgan plains. Therefore, bărăgănist, connected to a painful reality, from a Stalinist Romania, contains a historical ”burden”. The bărăgănist gets confused with and is, at the same time, different from the inhabitant of that space, from the native. The suffix -ist, therefore, is not just an indication of belonging to that territory. Productive in current Romanian, it is attached to different themes and allows the creation of words that will later be integrated into literary or non-literary stylistic registers. In this sense, we can exemplify various lexical formations, such as: collectivist, heirupist, integralist, minciunist, navetist, stahanovist, trombonist etc. Many of these are recent creations. Tudor Arghezi transforms the toponym Bărăgan, in one of his tablets, published in the journal „Bilete de papagal”, into a common name, using it in an original syntagm, bărăgane de valuri, a possible contextual synonym for depărtări or spațiu deschis.