40 Words You Will Never Use vol. 3

The latest batch of words that on a daily basis only crazy people dare to use. My favourite one must be “elision” which refers to "the omission of a sound or syllable when speaking” — never thought there was a word for it! Now for the ultimate challenge: use as many of these as possible in one game of Scrabble! Ha!

Elision ● Amalgamation ● Abhorrence ● Transgress ● Epithalamium ● Crevasse ● Tenacious ● Veridical ● Vociferous ● Vehement ● Avarice ● Fecundity ● Obfuscate ● Incorrigible ● Scurrilous ● Inoculation ● Quagmire ● Corollary ● Portent ● Effervescent ● Mendacious ● Prolegomenon ● Excise ● Prolegomenous ● Preposterous ● Inculcation ● Virulence ● Rapacious ● Opprobrium ● Surreptitious ● Palatable ● Excoriate ● Raucous ● Equanimity ● Adventitious ● Reticent ● Viscous ● Impunity ● Obdurate ● Desideratum

 Meanings after the break.

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40 words you will never use vol. 2

Second edition of the compilation of words that most of us either never use or straight up don't know. Coming from my literary wanderings of the past 6 months here is 40 words you will never use volume two.

Impervious ● Sagacious ● Fornicate ● Excrescence ● Aberration ● Insouciance ● Provenance ● Dilapidated ● Confounding ● Conspicuous ● Ramification ● Disavowal ● Transience ● Disparagement ● Onerous ● Recalcitrant ● Outre ● Implacable ● Comeuppance ● Confluence ● Ephemeral ● Bequeath ● Indignation ● Incestuous ● Conduit ● Transcendent ● Connivance ● Heinous ● Indefatigable ● Obsequious ● Obeisance ● Petulant ● Egregious ● Sycophancy ● Volubility ● Insatiable ● Unruliness ● Effeminacy ● Vituperative ● Adamant

Definitions after the break.

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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.

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