Why this word is great
VERKLEMPT — [Adjective] Overcome with emotion to the point of being choked up or speechless. Borrowed from Yiddish פֿאַרקלעמט (farklemt, "depressed, distraught; choked up"), from the verb פֿאַרקלעמען (farklemen, "to press, clamp, grip"). Unlike "flustered," which suggests agitated confusion from a social mishap, or "sentimental," which implies a lingering, reflective tenderness, verklempt is the acute, physical seizure of feeling that grips the throat. It is the catch in a parent's voice at a child's graduation, the scent-triggered memory of a lost relative that stops your breath, or the warm, salt-sting in the eyes upon hearing a perfect, long-forgotten melody—a somatic confession that some joys and sorrows are too large to be spoken.