wierd vocab words

[Death916]

in my 11th grade AP english class we have some wierd vocab words. i havent even heard of some of these.

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1. Nonchalant ? Adj.: Casually indifferent; Unconcerned
2. Metempsychosis-Noun: A passing of the soul at death into another body either human or another body either human or animal.
3. Diaphoretic-Adj.: Having the power to increase perspiration.
4. Lickerousness-Noun: Keen desire.
5. Necrophagous-Adj.: Feeding on dead bodies.
6. Yahoo-Noun.: A boorish, crass, or stupid person.
7. Profanation-Noun.: The act or instance of ?cursing?.
8. Vilipend-Verb: To hold or treat as little worth or account.
9. Zygodactylous-Adj.: Having the toes arranged two in front and two behind as in a bird.
10. Deterge-Verb: To wash off.
11. Hygrophilous-Adj.: Living or growing in moist places.
12. Cachinnate-Verb.: To laugh loudly or immoderately.
13. jipijapa -Noun: A tropical American palm-like plant.
14. Amphoteric-Adj.: Partly one and partly the other.
15. Borboryegmus-Noun: Intestinal rumbling caused by moving gas.
16. Ozostomia-Noun: Bad smelling breath.
17. Omphalorrhagia-Noun: Bleeding from the naval.
18. Phallism-Noun: Worship of the phallus(penis).
19. Ferule-Noun: An instrument used to punish children.
20. Elocution-Noun: Art or style of giving talks or reading in public.
21. Exhume-Verb: To dig out of the earth.
22. Propitiate-Verb: To gain favor or good will.
23. Inamorata-Noun: To inspire with love.
24. Maraud-Verb: To roam about and raid and raid in search of plunder.
25. Crotched-Noun: A queer or stubborn notion.
26. Orgulous-Adj.: Proud; haughty.
27. Thaumaturgist-Noun.: a performer of miracles.
28. Sesquipedalian: Adj.: Given to or characterized by the use of long words.
29. Xanadu-Noun: An idyllic, exotic place.
30. Chirography-Noun: Handwriting.
31. Pacifist-Noun: A person who believes in peace.
32. Diploe-Noun: The bony tissue between the external and internal layers of the skull.
33. Concatenate-Verb: To join or link together.
34. Zoanthropy-Noun: A mental disorder in which the patient imagines himself to be a beast.

do you have any words as weird as these? or even weirder? i want to knwo if anyone else has some crazy words they could share. any stories about them?

 

[bue519]

Maybe I just have a large vocabulary but those seem like pretty normal words. Except for Jipijapa, you got me there.

 

[Death916]

Maybe I just have a large vocabulary but those seem like pretty normal words. Except for Jipijapa, you got me there.

the words arent really hard for me. i was just shocked a little when my teacher pulled these out. but ya Jipijapa is a weird one

 

[Inverse Skies]

Nonchalant, Xanadu (because of the movie) and maraud I have heard of, the others just seem a little bit strange to use in everyday language. Although some of those words look like they might be cool/interesting to use in a title for a book... (ctrl + c)

Edit: Sorry, missed one. I also recognise omphalorrhagia from my medical dictionary.

Edit: edit: And profanation.

 

[Jenkins]

my AP euro teacher told me that when he took his semester abroad, he went to Russia (cold war era USSR Russia) and at Moscow University one of the vocab words he received was intercontinental ballistic missile.

 

[Abedeus]

They aren't hard. Not basic, but even I, as a non-native English speaking person know them.

 

[Daye.04]

I actually only recognized non-chalant, profaniation, pacifist and chirographi ...

 

[JHaronga]

discombobulated
antidisestablishmentarianism

 

[blackcherry]

Xanadu and jipijapa were the ones that caught me out on first glance. But then I do read a lot, so perhaps my expanded vocabulary is a result of that.

 

[NeedAUserName]

Wierd, thats a new word to me.

 

[DMShade]

Defenestration - The act of throwing someone out a window.

That's a really specific word.

 

[waggmd]

Wierd, thats a new word to me.

You caught that to eh!
All I got for a weird word is:

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
Even though the sound of it
Is something quite atrocious
If you say it loud enough
You'll always sound precocious
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!

 

[ChickDangerous]

Defenestration - The act of throwing someone out a window.

That's a really specific word.

I love threatening people with defenestration, you get a lot of blank looks.

I get a lot of quizzical brows when I refer to mastication however

 

[Valiance]

Zygodactylous looks like an odd one.

 

[somekindawizard]

mellifluous - describes something sweet sounding or for something to flow like honey.....

 

[Iron Mal]

Quite a few of those words don't seem like generic terms used by most adults on a day-to-day basis (some are even specilist medical, occupational or lexical vocabulary).

I wouldn't doubt someone's intelligence for not knowing those words.

 

[The Wooster]

Not that I want to join in with all the vocab dickwaving but I'm suprised how many of those words I've actually used before. Loving the irony on number 28 there.

 

[goin-mad]

here's a good one: confabulation - to confuse memory with an imagining.

 

[Ursus Astrorum]

Floccinaucinihilipilification-The act or habit of estimating something as worthless.

 

[Same River New Water]

Maybe I just have a large vocabulary but those seem like pretty normal words. Except for Jipijapa, you got me there.

Jipijapa: noun. Inane or unhelpful talk (colloquial). "Quit yo' jipijapa, fool!"