What are some of your favorite words, but don't use enough?

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  • CaptainGordo
    CaptainGordo Posts: 4,437 Member
    I love to play the glockenspiel.
    (gasp) You kiss your mother with that mouth?!

    :laugh:
  • sdwelk11
    sdwelk11 Posts: 825 Member
    MASTICATE
  • crazycat80
    crazycat80 Posts: 121 Member
    Noodle and Troglodyte. Noodle is used in the phrase... "I will noodle on your suggestion..."
  • GateCrasher1
    GateCrasher1 Posts: 108 Member
    Sublimation
  • sahmed15
    sahmed15 Posts: 20 Member
    SASQUATCH.
  • GateCrasher1
    GateCrasher1 Posts: 108 Member
    Infarction. God, I love that word. Gotten lots of mileage from that one. Thank you House.
  • solpwr
    solpwr Posts: 1,039 Member
    Should I be embarrassed that I have to look some of these up?
    Yes, and

    *hangs head in shame*

    Petrichor? perspicacious?

    At least I've learned something :)

    I'm embarrassed too. There's some impressive words here. I've never heard some of them.
  • odusgolp
    odusgolp Posts: 10,477 Member
    Should I be embarrassed that I have to look some of these up?
    Yes, and

    *hangs head in shame*

    Petrichor? perspicacious?

    At least I've learned something :)

    I'm embarrassed too. There's some impressive words here. I've never heard some of them.

    This is actually my favorite thread of the day :) Some words I rarely think of and adore. Others are new to me and I'll enjoy the challenge fitting them into conversation.
  • meerkat70
    meerkat70 Posts: 4,605 Member
    I saw this coming with the topic description straight away :0)

    So to speak....
  • k2quiere
    k2quiere Posts: 4,151 Member
    Me lleva la chin...
    ...gada!

    Agreed.

    I see what you did there.
  • solpwr
    solpwr Posts: 1,039 Member
    Should I be embarrassed that I have to look some of these up?
    Yes, and

    *hangs head in shame*

    Petrichor? perspicacious?

    At least I've learned something :)

    I'm embarrassed too. There's some impressive words here. I've never heard some of them.

    This is actually my favorite thread of the day :) Some words I rarely think of and adore. Others are new to me and I'll enjoy the challenge fitting them into conversation.

    I agree. I like proper conjugation. And tense.

    I love to take nouns and turn them into verbs by adding -ing. Great sport. At least I think they're verbs.

    Especially if I can actually say a word that really isn't a word at all, but sounds like one.

    Like "Gravying". That's a word, right?
  • stubbysticks
    stubbysticks Posts: 1,275 Member
    I was in a training at work recently & the instructor worked "ubiquitous" into his lecture without sounding like a pretentious *kitten*. I was pretty impressed.

    I like vitreous, superfluous & discombobulated.
  • xtinalovexo
    xtinalovexo Posts: 1,376 Member
    serendipity
    quizzical
    truncation
    delectable
  • GateCrasher1
    GateCrasher1 Posts: 108 Member
    I'm glad that this was such a enjoyable thread. Now go infarct yourselves people!!!!
  • InstantSunshine
    InstantSunshine Posts: 355 Member

    I love to take nouns and turn them into verbs by adding -ing. Great sport. At least I think they're verbs.

    So, you like verbing?
  • carhicks
    carhicks Posts: 1,856 Member

    I love to take nouns and turn them into verbs by adding -ing. Great sport. At least I think they're verbs.

    So, you like verbing?

    In the morning my husband asks me it I am going gyming. Sounds like a verb to me. I too, need to look up many of these words, but it is fun.
  • ummlovelovesyou
    ummlovelovesyou Posts: 1,024 Member
    1. Cornacopia
    2. Plethora
    3.Balk

    I use 'plethora' all the time. :bigsmile:
  • WifeNMama
    WifeNMama Posts: 2,876 Member
    1. Serendipity/serendipitous
    2. Transubstantiationism
    3. Djibouti
  • GateCrasher1
    GateCrasher1 Posts: 108 Member
    1. Serendipity/serendipitous
    2. Transubstantiationism
    3. Djibouti

    How could I have forgotten Djibouti? Well done.
  • asyouseefit
    asyouseefit Posts: 1,265 Member
    Schadenfreude
  • odusgolp
    odusgolp Posts: 10,477 Member
    1. Serendipity/serendipitous
    2. Transubstantiationism
    3. Djibouti


    Djibouti! Say it all the time :)
  • parys1
    parys1 Posts: 2,072 Member
    Superfluous, foible, exacerbate.
  • Lsqueezy
    Lsqueezy Posts: 128 Member
    Onomatopoeia and Sphygmomanometer. Just cause I know what they are. Those are more than 50 cent words. They're more like $1.00 words, but try whipping those bad boys out in everyday conversation.
  • simkat
    simkat Posts: 72 Member
    Fave: bituminous.
    Next up: fractal (partly because it blows my mind).
  • Lsqueezy
    Lsqueezy Posts: 128 Member
    Oh, and penetration, but in my line of work I get to use it all the time, and smile a little every time I do. :blushing:
  • fjrandol
    fjrandol Posts: 437 Member
    Schadenfreude

    Had the Dilbert comic posted on my wall at work for the longest time http://search.dilbert.com/search?w=schadenfreude (unsure how to link, sorry)

    My list of favorite words would definitely have to include:

    plethora
    antediluvian
    tchotchke
  • WifeNMama
    WifeNMama Posts: 2,876 Member
    1. Serendipity/serendipitous
    2. Transubstantiationism
    3. Djibouti

    How could I have forgotten Djibouti? Well done.
    Thank you, sir. :-)
  • SooZ1138
    SooZ1138 Posts: 65 Member
    1. Moist
    2. Preclude

    Moist is my favorite word, too. Weird... =P
  • wifeygonzo
    wifeygonzo Posts: 287 Member
    Petrichor
    Googled it, and loved it. Well done!

    nice!
  • Daysednconfused
    Daysednconfused Posts: 975 Member
    1. dissipate
    2. perforated

    don't know why, but I have always thought they were sexy words! lol
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