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Yoshi Jjang posted:
Like a cat. Garret - floor consisting of open space at the top of a house just below roof; often used for storage. Greave - Armor plate that protects legs below the knee. Obstreperous - noisy and difficult to control.
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ablution: A wash. ax: Axe. bloviate: To speak pompously. corpuscle: A minute particle. fungous: Fungus-like. qi: Mystical energy. striation: Scratches or grooves. za: An abbreviation for pizza.
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Jun 13, 2014 18:34
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"Skylark".
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jumentous: smelling like horse urine
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pusillanimous - to be a coward-rear end nigga pulchritudinous - to be a fine-rear end nigga
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Tittle - The dot above the lower case letters "i" and "j".
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Bruxism - Grinding of the teeth.
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palaver - a conference or discussion, profuse and idle talk; chatter abscond - to depart in a sudden and secret manner, especially to avoid capture and legal prosecution
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Jun 17, 2014 06:19
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Whores - Prostitutes. It's mostly because of the pronunciation.
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Mumpsimus - A person who adheres to traditions, beliefs, or usage of language (incorrect or archaic) that is unwilling to change despite being corrected.
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Vermin Tanager posted:Obfuscate - to confuse or bewilder Couple that with another obscure word and you have one of my favorite phrases. The word is eschew and the phrase is eschew obsfucation. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/eschew I always thought it was clever because the phrase is only ever used to deliberately confuse people and is, in and of itself, a confusing phrase because few people know what those words mean. Eschew itself is also a pretty cool word. I'm also extremely fond of thrice for some reason. It's kind of archaic and I almost never hear anybody else use it but it's a good word and extremely useful. Basically, it means "three times," like twice but three. Once, twice, thrice.
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VendaGoat posted:Whores - Prostitutes. I read the novelization of Robocop 2 as a kid and the writer had apparently only ever heard the word spoken. Or he was Danish. I was very confused about all the "hores" running around Detroit.
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Susurrus- A whispering, rustling sound. Maudlin- mawkish and overly sentimental. Kerfuffle- a problem, a fuss or commotion. I did learn this from Castlevania, but I do quite like Granfalloon.
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Hellequin posted:
Please do, this was a fantastic post. apparatus: n., a complex machine or instrument, either literal or figurative awry: adv., crookedly, askew; improperly sibilance: n., hissing. Also commonly seen in the adjectival form, sibilant.
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Obfuscate is also my favorite obscure word, gently caress you whoever beat me to it 
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Jun 17, 2014 18:08
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I never get to use the word barometer.
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Bombastic - marked by or given to bombast : pompous, overblown
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Jun 17, 2014 19:59
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Flinders - small fragments or splinters. Pingo - cone-shaped hills with hearts of ice pushed up by hydrostatic pressure in an area of permafrost.
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Hellequin posted:Dasypygal, (From the Greek δασύς "dense, hairy" + πυγή "buttock".) adj. Having a hairy buttocks. A useful way of naming someone an "rear end in a top hat" when circumstances dictate you unable to use the coarser word. Thank you! I've already used this on twain occasions.
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Riffraff: disreputable persons; trash. Brouhaha: an event that causes excitement or confusion. My high school alma mater used a much more obscure version of the word quail, where it means to lose courage.
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Discombobulate: To throw someone into a state of confusion.
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Average Bear posted:Eimgae - greeting used by French nobles in England around the 14th century C.E. 
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The late Iain (M) Banks was the author of a great series of science fiction books about an advanced society called The Culture. One or two of the books feature a breakoff sect that reject the aims and morals of the Culture and separated in search of alternative social paths, called the Zetetic Elench. For years I thought the name was just made-up SciFi nonsense until someone pointed out: Zetetic: seeking knowledge, moving ahead by inquiry Elench: the key point on which an argument is based; a refutation. also: Scrimshaw - carvings made on bone with a knife, often made by whalers on whalebones Palimpsest - a document or page whose original text has been erased and written over (or the erased text itself) Rip-rap - stones used to protect rivers and shorelines from erosion Prognathous - having jaws that jut out One Swell Foop has a new favorite as of 05:24 on Jun 18, 2014 |
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Jun 18, 2014 05:22
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Hallux - technical term for your big toe.
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Jun 18, 2014 05:50
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This thread has proven to be a perfectly cromulent way to embiggen my vocabulary.
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Jun 18, 2014 06:03
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So that my contribution to this thread isn't just a bad macro: palpebra - eyelid palpebrate - to wink
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Jun 18, 2014 06:25
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I love the word maundering--meaning gibbering or mumbling nonsense to oneself.
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I once spent a week laughing at the word "bantling". Bantling - a small child Seriously, just say it out loud. Bantling. Maybe it's just my accent, but it's hilarious.
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I've always loved having an opportunity to use... Morass - situation that traps, confuses, or impedes <a legal morass> b: an overwhelming or confusing mass or mixture <amorass of traffic jams> Also, a term that I've found far too few reasons to use in casual conversation... Teledildonics (also known as "cyberdildonics") are electronic sex toys that can be controlled by a computer to enable the human user to reach orgasm. Promoters of these devices have claimed since the 1980s they are the "next big thing" in cybersex technology.
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From QI: Jentacular, 'relating to breakfast'. Crumpets are a jentacular food. Mouth-friend, to falsely claim someone is your friend. Which should be used way, way more often than it is, because that's the most useful unused word ever. The end-bulbs of Krause, which are the microscopic bumps on the skin that sense temperature. The most badass name for anything on the body. And not from QI, but I've always liked the sound of the word and derived my username from it, Clerisy, a synonym for intelligentsia; the smartest people in society. I presume it's not often used because you can't describe someone as being part of it without a bolt of lightning immediatley striking dramatically behind them.
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Kalopsia - The delusion of things seeming more beautiful than they actually are. Also this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GWHcvYcg3Y
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Lethologica - the state in which you cannot remember a word you're thinking of, at the tip of your tongue I found this word to be so important in my life that I never get lethologica when I want to say the word lethologica. 
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Only because of the strangely hilarious alliterative sound made, but the name of the device used to increase blood pressure in your arm when you are getting blood taken from it is a sphygmomanometer
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palaver - to talk unnecessarily and at length onanism - masturbation, or pulling out before an orgasm eschatology - branch of theology concerned with the final events of the world or humankind
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Cromulent. As in, this word is perfectly cromulent.
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circumlocutory - using many words where fewer would do, especially in a deliberate attempt to be vague or evasive; long-winded.
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The following words I have used in forum discussions and drew reactions of "what the hell does that mean"? Someone got LMGTFY with the significance of patently. Recommended for anyone who aspires to pretentiousness. Patently: that which is obvious to all, clearly obvious Obdurate: Stubborn, usually associated with bad habits. I've heard it defined as "consistently impenitent". Inchoate: still nascent; often used with something that builds into something grand, as with a crescendo.
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Wewe - An ugly female ghost with drooping breasts
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Chthonic: Of or pertaining to the underworld
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Contrafibularities - Fake, pretend, or sarcastic congratulations. Contra - against, fibula the smaller bone in the lower leg. I.e. pulling someone's leg. Anaspeptic - Nausea. Ana - Back/Up, peptic - relating to the stomach. Frasmotic - A portmanteau of frazzled and spasmodic Compunctuous - Having a bad conscience at hurting someone, whilst still despising them. A blend of compunctious and contemptuous Pericombobulation - The confusion caused by talking to a more quick-witted person than you. peri around, and discombobulation. Red Suit posted:Wewe - An ugly female ghost with drooping breasts 
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