Thursday 13 May 2010

40 words that you will never use



Whenever I’m reading and I come across a cool sounding word I didn’t know, I try to write it down. Here is a selection of the most interesting ones coming from the notes I made in the past 12 months. Funnily enough, I still have no idea what most of them mean. Come to think about it, should we really bother?

Precarious ● Implore ● Irascible ● Predicament ● Providence ● Assuage ● Furtive ● Drubbing ● Tempestuous ● Usurpation ● Castigated ● Febrile ● Haranguing ● Delineation ● Rudimentary ● Insipid ● Inebriated ● Germane ● Concision ● Elucidate ● Demarcate ● Inexorable ● Salubrious ● Ambivalence ● Steadfastness ● Newfangled ● Obsequious ● Scrupulous ● Pernicious ● Compulsion ● Extenuation ● Refractory ● Laudatory ● Corroborate ● Precipitate ● Nebulous ● Imperceptible ● Concomitant ● Condescending ● Tendentious

In case you are wondering, descriptions after the break.