Favorite most unused words

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  • Jonesingmucho
    Jonesingmucho Posts: 4,902 Member
    agastopia
    n. – admiration of a particular part of someone’s body

  • AkCyclist
    AkCyclist Posts: 1,200 Member
    olio :)
  • CJisinShape
    CJisinShape Posts: 1,404 Member
    Edify - to strengthen spiritually
  • MattBeFit
    MattBeFit Posts: 297 Member
    Circumnavigate
  • Lisa1971
    Lisa1971 Posts: 3,069 Member
    Confuzzled. It's actually a word I made up myself. It's a combo of confused and puzzled. I use it a lot with my kids. :smiley:
  • Mishy
    Mishy Posts: 1,551 Member
    cattywampus - (informal) in disarray or disorder, askew.
  • P0RKYPIG
    P0RKYPIG Posts: 38 Member
    facetious
  • haleklausen
    haleklausen Posts: 1,857 Member
    Tubular
  • 4leighbee
    4leighbee Posts: 1,275 Member
    P0RKYPIG wrote: »
    facetious

    good one - I use it, and never remember how to spell it.
  • kershaann
    kershaann Posts: 1,824 Member
    obduracy meaning stubbornness; persistence
  • 47Jacqueline
    47Jacqueline Posts: 6,993 Member
    perspicacious - having a ready insight into and understanding of things.

    love saying ths word
  • redpandora56
    redpandora56 Posts: 289 Member
    dichotomy
  • SteampunkSongbird
    SteampunkSongbird Posts: 826 Member
    Lisa1971 wrote: »
    Confuzzled. It's actually a word I made up myself. It's a combo of confused and puzzled. I use it a lot with my kids. :smiley:

    Lots of us say that here in Scotland, I've used that one since I was a little kid, it's a fun word. :D

    I also like perchance, perpendicular, egregious and precocious.
  • Shananigans457
    Shananigans457 Posts: 486 Member
    Dubious
  • Saltfae
    Saltfae Posts: 82 Member
    edited March 2015
    fattofit_fritch26 wrote: »
    shenanigans, erroneous, effervescent, ethereal (yes...a lot of E's lol)
    _Tink_ wrote: »
    Persnickety
    Kafuffle
    Tomfoolery
    jenjencin78 wrote: »
    Plethora. Cacophony. Vacillate. The list goes on and on!
    I use shenanigans, tomfoolery and plethora a lot at work. Im an insufferable know it all though.

    My favorte words are Pychopharmacologist, chemiluminescence, splendiferous, and mollycoddle.
  • 4leighbee
    4leighbee Posts: 1,275 Member
    I love the word stasis. Used in rhetoric ... meaning a state of equilibrium/stability, as in the parties attempted to reach stasis. I use it in everyday speech, but probably shouldn't, lol.
  • markiend
    markiend Posts: 461 Member
    Happenstance , a chance circumstance or situation
  • jerber160
    jerber160 Posts: 2,607 Member
    cadre and akimbo
  • Keliandra
    Keliandra Posts: 170 Member
    filipendulous

    MEANING:
    adjective: Hanging by a thread.

    ETYMOLOGY:
    From Latin filum (thread) + pendere (to hang). Ultimately from the Indo-European root (s)pen- (to draw, to spin), which is also the source of pendulum, spider, pound, pansy, pendant, ponder, appendix, penthouse, depend, and spontaneous. Earliest documented use: 1864.
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