FANCY WORDS you think everyone should know.

Sagacious, perhaps...?

 

Someone else already mentioned www.dictionary.com - I open that page on an almost-daily basis... It's handy, useful, free and a great benefit when speaking/typing/writing...

 

Paradigm ... paradigm shift

 

By the way, Dictionary.com's word of the day today is "verisimilitude", which is another favorite...

 

Oooh ooh I like fancy words...

Nihilist-ni‧hil‧ism  /ˈnaɪəˌlɪzəm, ˈni-/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[nahy-uh-liz-uhm, nee-] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation

–noun 1. total rejection of established laws and institutions.
2. anarchy, terrorism, or other revolutionary activity.
3. total and absolute destructiveness, esp. toward the world at large and including oneself: the power-mad nihilism that marked Hitler's last years.
4. Philosophy. a. an extreme form of skepticism: the denial of all real existence or the possibility of an objective basis for truth.
b. nothingness or nonexistence.

5. (sometimes initial capital letter) the principles of a Russian revolutionary group, active in the latter half of the 19th century, holding that existing social and political institutions must be destroyed in order to clear the way for a new state of society and employing extreme measures, including terrorism and assassination.
6. annihilation of the self, or the individual consciousness, esp. as an aspect of mystical experience.


obsequious-ob‧se‧qui‧ous  /əbˈsikwiəs/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[uhb-see-kwee-uhs] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation

–adjective 1. characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning: an obsequious bow.
2. servilely compliant or deferential: obsequious servants.
3. obedient; dutiful


compendium-com‧pen‧di‧um  /kəmˈpɛndiəm/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[kuhm-pen-dee-uhm] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation

–noun, plural -di‧ums, -di‧a /-diə/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[-dee-uh] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation. 1. a brief treatment or account of a subject, esp. an extensive subject; concise treatise: a compendium of medicine.
2. a summary, epitome, or abridgment.
3. a full list or inventory: a compendium of their complaints


egalitarian-e‧gal‧i‧tar‧i‧an  /ɪˌgælɪˈtɛəriən/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[i-gal-i-tair-ee-uhn] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation

–adjective 1. asserting, resulting from, or characterized by belief in the equality of all people, esp. in political, economic, or social life.


douc*hebaggery-verb 1. to act in, or take part in being a dou*he bag by 2010 I WILL have this word recognized by websters and/or dictionary.com


forget words... how about some fun phrases.

Mind Falk An act purely assocciated with women, usually involving a soon to be ex girlfriend.

I'll remember more in a bit, time to run to lunch.

Great thread

 

But to learn something, you have to do the work. Didn't you have the teacher who told you to use every new word in a sentence three times to remember it?

Langurousness, torpescensce: mean laziness.
(From the thesaurus I keep on my desk.)

Do I have a dictionary on my desk? I have five. (English, Russian, Romanian, French, Italian. -- Spanish, German, and Latin are on a shelf on the other side of the room.)

 

Spork-Not quite a spoon and not quite a fork

 

What about a fpoon for a soquid?

This is seriously a basic word, but I'm surprised at how some of my friends don't know what it means: obliged

I was surprised to find out they didn't know what it meant.

 

heep-poptatatumus pronounciation for hippopotamus

 

That would be an iniquitous move.

-R

 

there is nothing worse than people who misuse words trying sound intelligent.

disinterested does not mean 'not interested', it means unbiased
alumni is plural
"myself" is not a pronoun... "John and myself will be going"
disconnect is a verb NOT a noun... "there seems to be a disconnect"
there is no such word as irregardless
i can go on for days.

and what's with everyone mispronouncing "culinary". even the culinary students and schools mispronounce it!!

 

Oops, double post.

 

We'll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes;
But the plural of ox became oxen not oxes.
One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese,
Yet the plural of moose should never be meese.
You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice;
Yet the plural of house is houses, not hice.
If the plural of man is always called men,
Why shouldn't the plural of pan be called pen?
If I spoke of my foot and show you my feet,
And I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet?
If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth,
Why shouldn't the plural of booth be called beeth?
Then one may be that, and three would be those,
yet hat in the plural would never be hose,
and the plural of cat is cats, not cose.
We speak of a brother and also of brethren,
but though we say mother, we never say methren.
Then the masculine pronouns are he, his and him,
but imagine the feminine she, shis and shim.

And consider:

1) The bandage was wound around the wound
2) The farm was used to produce produce.
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4) We must polish the Polish Furniture.
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to
present the present.
8) At the Army base, a bass was painted on the head of a bass drum.
9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10) I did not object to the object.
11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid
12) There was a row among the oarsman about how to row.
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the does are present
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into the sewer line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail
18) After a number of Novocain injections, my jaw got number
19) Upon seeing the tear in the painting, I shed a tear.
20) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
21) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
22) The wind winds the windmill.

If you have a rough cough, climbing can be tough when going through the bough on a tree!

There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger, neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England.

How is it that:
* quicksand can work slowly?
* boxing rings are square
* a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig?
* writers write but fingers don't fing?
* grocers don't groce?
* hammers don't ham?
* you can make amends but not one amend?

If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it? If teachers taught, why don't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? Why do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell?

How can:
* a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wiseguy are opposites?
* your house burn up as it burns down?
* you fill in a form by filling it out?
* an alarm go off by going on.

 

Bamboozled = Confused.

To Bamboozle = to deceive, confuse.

 

Merit

Fugasi

Amicable

Penetration

Suave

Didactic

and my favorite word:

JERK-OFF

 

I gotta dig out my old Sniglet books.

 

I don't live too far from there. It's really not a very interesting place...In English it means "The summit where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, the climber of mountains, the land-swallower who travelled about, played his flute to his loved one."

Ha...Random, I know.

 

stewardesses i believe

also,

fantasmagorical

 

Correction: phantasmagorical

Speaking of catches; My new pet coelacanth is quite feisty.

 

Why thank you wax.

 

I'd settle for people understanding possessives. Ferrari's is not the plural of Ferrari.