Expand Your Horizons! (Or at least your vocabulary)
Jun 23, 2014 12:37:02 GMT -5
Post by Kire on Jun 23, 2014 12:37:02 GMT -5
So I made a list of interesting words a while back and I just recently found them again. I always love expanding my vocabulary and I hope that you guys will to after you see these, if you don't already.
Feel free to reply with more interesting words. ^^
WORDS
- Mauger - in spite of, notwithstanding
- Falderal - mere nonsense; foolish talk or ideas
- Abendrot - the colour of the sky while the sun is setting
- Adscititious - added or derived from an external source
- Clepe - to call; name (yclept, ycleped)
- Tenuity - thinness of consistency; rarefied condition
- Gelt - (slang) money
- Borborygmus - a rumbling or gurgling sound in the intestines
- Wight - active; nimble, strong and brave, especially in war
- Pilcrow - a paragraph mark
- Twain - two
- Jocose - given to or characterized by joking; jesting
- Oeillade - an amerous glance; ogle
- Sozzled - (slang) drunk
- Inchoation - a beginning; origin
- Skosh - (slang) a bit; a jot
- Welkin - the sky; the vault of heaven
- Wamble - to move unsteadily: to feel nausea
- Echt - real; authentic; genuine
- Misology - hatred or distrust of reason or reasoning
- Bosky - covered with bushes, shrubs, and small trees; woody
- Idem - the same as previously given or mentioned
- Aphesis - Historical Linguistics: the disappearance or loss of an unstressed initial vowel or syllable
- Squib - a short and witty or sarcastic saying or writing
- Boffin - a scientist or technical expert
- Neologize - to make or use new words or create new meanings for existing words
- Schatzi - (slang) sweetheart, darling
- Moiety - a half; an indefinite portion, part or share
- Sciamachy - an act or instance of fighting a shadow or an imaginary enemy
- Cockalorum - a self-important little man
- Susurrant - softly murmuring or whispering
- Noetic - of or pertaining to the mind
- Coxcomb - a conceited, foolish, dandy; pretentious fop
- Ambivert - a person whose personality type is intermediate between extrovert and introvert
- Vittate - striped longitudinally
- Achromic - colourless; without colouring matter
- Ad Infitum - to infinity; endlessly; without limit
- Glib - readily fluent, often thoughtlessly, superficially or insincerely so
- Cuittle - to wheedle, cajole or coax
- Picayune - of little value or account; small; trifling: petty, carping, or prejudiced
To give you an idea on how rare these words are, Google Chrome told me that most of them were spelt incorrectly.