Let's try something, /lit/
Give me the most interesting, unusual, intelligent, or rarely seen words in the English language. Looking form some new vocabulary to share with my students.
>>7725155
pogrom
bestprinter
etc.
Do you want some other Russian words in English language?
>>7725162
Keep going
Sinister
>>7725162
>pogrom
>rarely seen
You don't read much history, do you?
>>7725162
>etc.
I didnt mean that it is Russian, hah.
Bestprinter - a book or other product that was made in very large numbers.
http://www.castanedadzr.ru/cc/inter/inter22.htm
phthisis
Brumous
Diurnal
Volitant
Serendipity
One of my favorites is "homonculus" , as used is philosophy of mind, not the weird anatomical brain mapping
mulka, samizdat, socrealism, tsar.
philavery
i would recommend foyle's philavery if you can get hold of a copy
>>7725192
>>7725196
>>7725214
>>7725170
These are all pretty good. Thanks!
A few I was thinking of or got from friends on social media:
>cacophony
>litigious
>hornswoggle
>cognizant
>catalyst
>fug
>pulchritude
>malodorous
>chiropteran
>ferrous
>lobcock
And then some from other languages:
>schadenfreude
>toska
>tartle
>litost
>cafune
>tingo
>wabi-sabi
Nothing groundbreaking, but I'll throw out some of my favorite words.
Vestige
Sodden
Petrichor
Temerity
Acrimonious
Resplendent
Voluptuary
Vitiate
Bereave
>>7725183
>Serendipity
Amazing
>>7725245
German here. Will drop some rare German memes.
Vorfreude (the joy that one feels while anticipating something)
Schilderwahn (lots of signs, as in traffic signs, in one place)
Fingerspitzengefühl (this is a hard one; possessing the ability to be sensible or exact, often in a social situation or while doing something that requires lots of precision)
Schnapsidee (a bad idea)
Fehrweh (the longing for travels or adventures)
Can't think of any others right now, might post some more later.
prosaic, how about people fucking learn THE ACTUAL DEFINITION OF PROSAIC
>>7725254
>Petrichor
Amazing
>>7725277
I was thinking about naming my firstborn Petrichor.
>>7725155
Omnipotence, Omniscience, and Omnipresence.
>>7725155
rehistorizatoin
>>7725155
>students
Do you want us to save you some work, asswipe?
>>7725272
Remembered one that is pretty relevant on /lit/
Geschmacksverirrung (having bad taste; statements or actions that might suggest having bad taste)
>>7725296
No, I can do my own job. Just looking for interesting words that aren't required reading or shit. Sometimes it's fun to give the kids weird and semi-useless knowledge, and it's easier to ask for help in that endeavor instead of scouring the Internet. It's a fun game anyway.
Who pissed in your Cheerios this morning?
>>7725383
How self-indulgent are you in that endeavor?
>>7725411
Oh, there's a bit of arrogance there. Whatever. I'll admit it. Still doesn't mean I think it's useful for some of the kids who are into this stuff. But I'd like it if you stopped shitting on the thread and either contributed or didn't.
>>7725453
Meant to say "isn't useful," but whatever.
>>7725272
Don't forget about Schadenfreude/epicarycacy (joy felt when seeing someone's misfortune)
Some of my faves:
Eidetic
Pabulum
Quotidian
Excoriate
Gormandize
Shibboleth
Peccadillo
'Syzygys' is the highest scoring word in Scrabble.
>>7725272
>Fehrweh
This was supposed to mean Fernweh. Damn, I keep fucking up today.
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
Threnody
Perhaps its composition greeting says of youuussss, that it's greeting says composition so yooouuuzz find the words so adamantlyyyyyy.
>>7725155
Borborygmus.. Pulchritudinous, fuliginous, gloaming, Gruntled (my favorite) apophenia, pule, pleonasm, folderol, cachinnate, caitiff, tenebrous, integument, dudgeon...
>>7726662
neart is a cool word though,
doesn't rhyme with heart though
callipygian
>>7726649
My first encounter with the word "threnody" was this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp3BlFZWJNA
>students
Elementary, highschool or university students?
bagel
Don't tryhard it. Just use stuff like taciturn or liminal. Little bits at a time homeslice.
/lit/ needs to make mention of 'myrmidon'.
>>7727624
>/lit/
also 'glaucous', definitely.
Hell yes, vocab thread. I'll post more tomorrow, I've been keeping my own vocabulary notes while I read, jotting down words I want to learn or already know but don't recall that often in every day conversation.
Of the top of my head:
Avuncular
Callipygian/Callipygian
Vicissitude
Caprice
Supernal
Rapacity
Cupidity
Limpid
Unvitiated
Lassitude
Sough
Sussurus
>>7727698
Oh, also Terpsechorean!
>>7727713
And abstemious and stentorian. And recalcitrant, recondite, marlinspike, pergola, columnar, and intrigant.
>>7727721
And unctuous, I've seen that used a lot latrly.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/9715551/What-words-really-mean-David-Foster-Wallaces-dictionary.html
I've always liked verisimilitude.
Defenestrate
To throw somebody out a window.
Or remove or dismiss someone from a position of power or authority, but only the first ever comes up as a cute eccentricity.
All right, awake now and got my notes.
Elucidation & Elucidate
Reverential
Recrimination & Recriminate
Vitriol, Vitriolic
Vituperation, Vituperate, Vituperative
Poltroon
Ligature
Osseous
Ossify
Bruit
Orison
Corposant
Bursa
Vacillate, Vacillation
Lascivious
Lissome
Insensate
Inchoate
Frolicsome
Varigated
Puerile
Vociferous
Surreptitious
>>7727845
no wonder, "fenster" is German for window. I wonder if old English used it too
>>7728775
Pugnacious
Pusillanimous
Tyro
Oleaginous
Amativeness
Alimentiveness
Obsequious
Poniard
Aleatory
Iniquity, Iniquitous
Repudiate
Inveigh
Prurient
Parturient
Stultify
Hartshorn
Mephistophelian
Rostrum
Lustrum
Dismast
Annuity
Unregenerate
Celery
Plaguy
Impenitent
tessellate
repeating patterns like pic related
>>7725155
Sesquipedalian
>pertaining to use of long words
How did I ever survive without the dictionary extension for my browser
>>7728786
>celery
Should be "celerity."
Curvet
Calabash
Argosy
Expatiate
Ferrule
Hod
Circumambulate
Wainscot
Cofferdam
Eider
Farrago
Levanter
Harmattan
Simoom
Inveterate
Festoon
Solecism
Magniloquent
Monomania (guess where I learned this one)
Unwonted
Hist
Capstan
Those are from February. I can keep going if people would like.
>>7725183
>Serendipity
I hate this word so fucking much.
Growlery
Tscotchkies
Ullulation
(I like how these sound)
there's nothing more vile than someone affecting intelligence and erudition by using rare words just to use them
stupid repulsive pretension
>>7728804
Actually, I'll just keep going since it's on topic and good practice to reread. Repitition is the root of knowledge!
Hauteur
Phlegmatic
Coquettish
Maudlin
Sedulous
Truculent, Truculence
Desultory
Ignominious
Captious
Cenotaph
Indolent
Simonize
Bombazine
Superinduce (I find this to be an odd word.)
Jeremiad
Otiose
Torpid
Turgid
Loquacity, Loquacious
Concupiscent
Spurious
Pullulate
Cineaste
Rubicund
Fustian
Stertorous
Mucid
Insouciant
Gabardine
Exophthalmic
Exoteric
Denude
Intransigent
Monody
Enervate
Effulgent, Effulgence
Nephritis
Somnolent
Fecund
Sibilant, Sibilance
Lachrymose
Farinaceous
Vesicle
>>7728832
While I agree with that sentiment, the honest appreciation of language and desire to increase one's knowledge is good practice. And you're being a cunt.
felicity
edify, edification
wight
descry
>>7728833
>Turgid
>>7728811
But it's such a uniquely English word, it's not borrowed from French or bastardised from Latin or anything! Don't you know how rare it is to find a purely English word with any depth in the English language?
>>7728950
>with any depth
fuck is that supposed to mean
>>7725245
Fug :DDDD
>>7728950
>serendipity
>uniquely English word
>it's not borrowed from French or bastardised from Latin or anything
It's Persian
garn mate soak up this pretentious plebbitier hipster globalist commie garbage
have a roll around in the muck
get round it cunt
https://www.youtube.com/user/obscuresorrows/videos
>>7725155
Licentious
Continence
