Help me improve my Vocabulary Please!

[Some bullets]

Well I'm 16 and I need to improve my conversational skills. So I thought I'll make a thread in which I ask each person who reads it to say a word not commonly heard and define it.

Mine is Profusely

it means plentiful. It has been profusely raining in Indiana recently.

So whats your word of the day?

 

[walls of cetepedes]

'Tosspot'
A complete arsehole. Someone who really deserves to die slowly and painfully.

Great for common usage.

 

[similar.squirrel]

Gallimaufry: A motley assortment of things.

I stumbledupon some sort of website for words facing extinction ages ago. I'll try to find it again for you.

Edit: here you go. I believe this is it. Keep in mind that most of these words are very obscure and dropping like flies from the idiom. So you may sound highly eccentric in conversation.

http://savethewords.org/

 

[megalomania]

'It has been raining profusely' not 'profusely raining'.

Esoteric - Understood only by a select few.

 

[Faps]

Masticate - to chew.

It's a fun would cos it sounds like masturbate

 

[Twilight_guy]

Nebulous: Indistinct, vague, wispy. Think of a nebula, its got some scattered stuff but it's mostly empty space.

 

[Cobra Dude]

Sesquipedalian-
A person who uses long words OR A long word

 

[Kellerb]

Antidisistablishmentarianism. longest word in english. means being against someone who is agaist people who are against establishments. tis awesome

 

[Radeonx]

Superkalafragilisticexplealidoucious. The sound of it is really quite atrocious.

 

[Dottie]

read these.
http://artofmanliness.com/2008/05/14/100-must-read-books-the-essential-mans-library/
I'm 16 I've read about 30 of them they're VARY good they will make you smarter they will improve you conversational skills.

 

[CymTyr]

Convoluted. Extremely difficult, or hard to believe.

That convoluted story you came up with is really nasty.

 

[Kiefer13]

Defenestrate - To eject or throw (someone or something) from a window.

 

[Kharnac]

Amalgamation - i think is actually a term used in metal work and smelting that moreorless means 'a mixture', and thats what i use it for.

Gargantuan - really really big :3

 

[TheLastCylon]

Poppycock
noun informal
nonsense. .
ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: from Dutch dialect pappekak, from pap ?soft? + kak ?dung.?

 

[Danzaivar]

Eloquent. Throw eloquent into a conversation and people are usually floored.

It's (basically) when you present an argument or case really well, you was eloquent, your argument was eloquent etc. I had to look up the definition actually, I know what context to use it in but not what it actually meant.

It's kind of funny when stuff like that happens, imo.

 

[Pielikey]

Antidisistablishmentarianism. longest word in english. means being against someone who is agaist people who are against establishments. tis awesome

OHH NO IT'S NOT! It is, infact, the fourth-longest. The longest word consists of just short of 190,000 letters. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_word_in_English


OT:

Assuage
-To make less severe.

 

[Fireyredmullet]

Palpable

Used in reference to things that cannot be held or touched only
Means some feeling is so intense you can almost touch it.

EG. The sexual tension in the room was palpable as Fireyredmullet started to sweat...

i think we can all infer my penthouse letter from there.

 

[IWCAS]

fondruke. A special SNL edition cussword aimed at will ferrel.

 

[Fireyredmullet]

... and if you just want to sound smart, try training yourself to say "Schedule" with a SHHedule sound instead of a SKedule.

 

[RedPandaMan]

Floccinaucinihilipilification- the estimation of something as worthless

In all seriousness though in something you will actually use: Inane- lacking meaning, point, or significance