Favorite Words and Phrases

[Bob Loblaw]

So what are your favorite words and/or phrases? Please include a definition of lesser-known words!!

I like
extemporaneous - peaking or performing with little or no advance preparation

impromptu - synonym for extemporaneous

syntax - the rules or patterns so studied

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Scientific: norepinephrinergic
Spanish: Sacapuntas - pencil sharpener; Chimichanga

 

[Salvinorin_A]

I like-

Floccinoccinihilipilification- to perceive something or someone to be useless

I like words... I'll add to this list

 

[Olyn]

Shenanigans!

Tom Foolery would have to be my favorite though.

 

[New]

Bombastic

Acuity

"I know"

Resplendent

 

[mariacallas]

Some of my very favorite words.

prosaic ~ not fanciful or imaginative

deliquesce ~ melt or become liquid by absorbing moisture from the air

byzantine ~highly involved or intricate

recalcitrant ~ marked by stubborn resistance to and defiant of authority or guidance

petulant ~ capriciously fretful

insouciance ~ the cheerful feeling you have when nothing is troubling you

vicissitude ~ mutability in life or nature

elegiac ~ expressing sorrow often for something past

stultify ~ cause to appear foolish

unequivocal ~ clearly defined or formulated


~See a pattern?

 

[Noodle]

introspective

 

[Bob Loblaw]

juxtapose

anadiplosis - the repetition of the last word of a preceding clause

 

[Noodle]

pompous

pretentious

precocious

parsimonious




( I don't really use these words often in conversation. I just like to stroke my own fragile ego by posting uncommon words on a message board! )

 

[Mehm]

"The glass was half full, so I drank it."
"It is what it is."
"beer and a shot of whiskey please"

peace
platitude
copious

 

[noodlebongsheep]

incognito
concrescence
intangible

 

[Noodle]

"That's what she said!"

chucklehead

numbskull

cretin

 

[rollinboyo]

tableau
capricious
delicate
pernicious
lurid

 

[Noodle]

lucid

whimsical

dork

 

[stonerfromohio]

conglomeration

elucidation

manifestation

dissolution

innumerable

 

[Olyn]

Buffoon

Diabolical

Wimsey

Vagabond

 

[Raz]

( i don't really use these words often in conversation. I just like to stroke my own fragile ego by posting uncommon words on a message board! )

oh okay after 3 attempts, I realise now that I need to write something in small letters so the dumb smiley will work...stupid no caps rule

 

[Northside]

Resplendent

I like that one, feels very spiritual to me.

A couple of my favorites (ATM) are impeccable and decadent.