Let's expand our vocabulary!

[rt052192]

we all find it somewhat impressive when one of our friends uses a good vocab word, that most often comes from his/her word of the day calendar, and it helps broaden our own vocabulary.

So, post a word which may not be common or has a definition that is off the beaten path along with its definition. Maybe we will learn something...

I'll start:

snarky- testy or irritable

 

[Code Monkey]

Anatidaephobia - The fear that somewhere, somehow, a duck is watching you.

 

[Sporky111]

Brunt : The main impact or force of an attack/conversation/object

 

[Rainbowloid]

Skulduggery - mean dishonesty or trickery

 

[Fury Is Me.]

Arachnophobia- The fear of spiders (as if we all didn't know that one.)

 

[CounterAttack]

Defenestrate - To throw out a window.

 

[NeoAC]

dord - Density in physics

 

[Shapsters]

dord - Density in physics

Haha, do you by any chance read Cracked?

Snipe: To attack with snide criticism... or something like that >.>

 

[NeoAC]

dord - Density in physics

Haha, do you by any chance read Cracked?

Snipe: To attack with snide criticism... or something like that >.>

Quite possibly.....

Malagasy - The official language of Madagascar

 

[CounterAttack]

Discombobulate - To confuse or disrupt.

 

[Hashime]

superfluous- grossly excessive

 

[KdS_22]

Antonomasia - when a trademark is used as a generic term (ex: Kleenex referring to pretty much all tissues)

 

[Dark Knifer]

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis- A lung diesease caused by inhailing particles of volcanic dust.

Just try fitting that into a conversation.

 

[ThreeWords]

I love you people

Sesquipedalianism- The use of overly long words (lit. foot-and-a-half-long-ism)
Hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian - the above, but MOAR!

Floccinaucinihilipilification - to make nothing of something (dog Latin, from three words for nothing)

Obfuscation - the obstruction of understanding by the unnecessary use of over complicated words, phrases or syntax

 

[ThreeWords]

Obfuscation - the obstruction of understanding by the necessary use of over complicated words, phrases or syntax

Is that a real one? If so, I'll be using that. Sick of people doing it on this site during debates haha.

It is indeed =D

However, I realize that ti should read 'unnecessary use'
*swiftly edits own post*

 

[BillyShakes]

Zemmiphobia - An abnormal and persistent fear of the great mole rat.

Defenestrate - To throw out a window.

A personal favourite of mine.

 

[not_the_dm]

Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia - the fear of long words
Ephebiphobia - the fear of youth
Spectrophobia - the fear of mirrors and one's own reflection
Paraskavedekatriaphobia - the fear of Friday the 13th
Agyrophobia - the fear of crossing roads
Pyrophillia - being aroused by fire
Tetraphobia - the fear of the number 4
Scoleciphobia - the fear of worms
Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia - the fear of the number 666
Erotophobia ? fear of sexual love or sexual questions
Gephyrophobia ? fear of bridges
Judeophobia - the fear of Jews