Unusual English words

[Anonymous No.17137130]

>adroit
>pyrrhic
>turgid

[Anonymous No.17137136]

entrepreneur

[Anonymous No.17137143]

precipice
cataract

[Anonymous No.17137146]

no-one has yet posted an unusual word
what is the point of this thread?

[Anonymous No.17137153]

>>17137136
this is a commonly used word, I am more looking for words that I have never heard of before or are extremely uncommon.
>>17137146
Post an unusual word then you fuck.

[Anonymous No.17137155]

>>17137146
>>17137153
floccinaucinihilipilificaiton

[Anonymous No.17137156]

vestibule

[Anonymous No.17137158]

nigger
tranny
faggot
kike
mudshit
chink
janny

[Anonymous No.17137159]

>>17137146
>>17137153
floccinaucinihilipilification

[Anonymous No.17137160]

>>17137153
ok
stound

[Anonymous No.17137164]

>>17137155
>floccinaucinihilipilificaiton
this is not a real word, and scientific words are not to be counted either unless can actually be used to express an idea that you can't otherwise. Not just the name is a complicated compound. Want to expand my vocabulary.

[Anonymous No.17137166]

defenestrate

[Anonymous No.17137168]

>>17137130
I use these on a daily basis

[Anonymous No.17137171]

>>17137164
It's a real word and it's not a scientific term.
>Often cited as the longest non-technical word in the English language, being one letter longer than the commonly cited antidisestablishmentarianism. It is the longest word ever recorded by Hansard after Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg used the word in Parliament on 21st February 2012.

[Anonymous No.17137178]

I like alacrity
it's cool to say
alacrity
alacrity
alacrity

[Anonymous No.17137180]

>>17137168
it must be hard being a homosexual incel

[Anonymous No.17137182]

>>17137160
Is this a real word? Just seems to be a middle english equivalent of the word "time".
>>17137166
this is good.
>>17137168
no you dont.

[Anonymous No.17137190]

>>17137182
of course it's a real word. middle english is english too, and it still survives dialectically. if you want to use exotic words it is better to grasp for english words that are nearly lost than to vugarly overseason with latinate pretension.

[Anonymous No.17137203]

>>17137180
>>17137182
Do you really think responding like that makes you "win" some imaginary argument? Sounds pretty pyrrhic to me.
Also, for the guy that called me gay, wait until I adroitly insert my turgid cock in your garrulous anus

[Anonymous No.17137206]

>>17137130
abapical

[Anonymous No.17137217]

>>17137203
>garrulous
kek but new word get

[Anonymous No.17137221]

>>17137130
Logorrhea

[Anonymous No.17137228]

uneducated losers say pyrrhic
well read losers say Cadmian

[Anonymous No.17137295]

Does anyone else keep a list of new words they don't recognise whilst reading? I've read somewhere you shouldn't break flow of reading (either by googling a definition of rifling through a dictionary) so i just not them down for later.
This is my list of "to be googled" for a definition and then into a flashcard app for long term remembering.
I don't use them in conversation, I'll just get mad if I see any in writing again and not know the meaning. Any tips on improving vocab other than reading and making effort to remember new words? I tried a "vocabulary builder" book but it was too basic. Short of learning latin or greek or romance languages idk what to do....

Tergiversate
Suasion
Gnomic
Metonymy
Solfatara
Nostrum
Rofous
Panhuman
Fumarole
Susurrus
Sastrugi
Alacrity
Scabrous
Bowlderised
Madrigal
Pecunairy
Carcan
sothurn
paroxysm
charivari
soubrette
titivate
exiguity
phic
empyrean
antiphrasis

[Anonymous No.17137305]

>>17137295
You can only really learn stuff by coming across it again and again, reinforcing your neural pathways. You can simulate this effectively with spaced repetition (i.e. flashcards) or just do it naturally by reading widely and curiously and by accepting that things will not stick in your brain at the first encounter.

[Anonymous No.17137322]

>>17137295
I made this thread because I have a similar list that I made because I often talk to ESLs online and wanted to teach them some words they had probably never heard of. I also like to improve my vocabulary and find it strange when I come across I word I have never seen before. I appreciate the list will be investigating it.

[Anonymous No.17137327]

>>17137130
me irl

[Anonymous No.17137330]

Aetiological

[Anonymous No.17137335]

>>17137158
rude

[Anonymous No.17137342]

I’ve read turgid a lot in gay erotica

[Anonymous No.17137367]

>>17137203
>garrulous
love that word

[Anonymous No.17137397]

>>17137305
Yeah I'm using spaced repetition and it works great as long as I remember to do it. Some really weird words are now locked into my vocabulary and catching them every few months and knowing the word is super exciting. Enfilade is one, vitrine is another. So obscure but glad i know them.

>>17137322
Here is a list of ones that I'm flashcarding atm. This is the "learning pile" if you will.
precis, harbell, crabe, tulle, organdie
dray, tonsure, fleur-de-lys, boulangerie, languorous, anodyne, fug, pillion, anapest
catechism
copse
ardour
reconnoitering
spode
equanimity
feverfew
pennyroyal
baize
exultant
charlady
brogues
louring
belle epoque
Fauvist
lanolin
sibilant
bilious
mendacity
force majeure
invective
querulous
obstreperous
inchoate
pederasty
sensu stricte
cathected
tumeation
contretctation
per os
anastomoses
discursive
hermeneutics
cattarh
retirante
indigent
charnel house
depot
affine
recriminations
autarky
caducity
apses
slattern
otioise
fane
apport
delusive
louche

gritstone
plutocratic
crampons
recusant
preterite
brochs
rime
phlox
skeins
grisaille
dun
unbelliferous
burghs
propitiation
anathema
pithily
ex post facto
defray
paean
copingstone
vestries
Janus-faced
freighted
sundries
subaltern
screed
esculpatory
nom de plume
patina
gelden mean (confuscian doctrine)
fait acompli
wended
unstinting
timorous
sartorial
menacity
casuistry
chicanery
recalcitrant
lacuna, kibitz, bedouin, insouciant, Sahib, Supercilious, Sacerdotal, ryot, Yeoman, Calumnies, arrears, Cess, Consternation
A lot are pretty basic but so is my vocabulary. I feel stupid when I don't know a word...

[Anonymous No.17137399]

>>17137367
Its antonym, laconic, is nice as well.

[Anonymous No.17137671]

>>17137130
Suzerain

[Anonymous No.17137867]

>>17137159

[Anonymous No.17137893]

I find words that enter English via French, but enter French via a Germanic root to be really fascinating. "Group" and "choice" are both examples.

Also, "stick" and "tiger" are cognates, as are "iron" and "sanguine".

[Anonymous No.17137902]

>>17137397
good list

[Anonymous No.17138525]

behold....: HIERATIC

[Anonymous No.17138780]

>>17137397
How old are you? I remember making notecards out of these words maybe four years ago and now know about 80% of these without googling.

[Anonymous No.17140001]

>>17137295
>Gnomic
Scarlet Letter pilled

[Anonymous No.17140458]

crepuscular