I like to learn new words and use them when possible.
A few words are these; Esoteric, Priapic, Opaque
juxtapose
Resistentialism
Dudelsackpfeifer
s’évertuer, meaning “to do one’s utmost (to do something).”
Ataraxy. I keep forgetting what it means though, and having to look it up again.
If I wasn’t hallucinating, I think I saw a doper named Ataraxy, too.
Here in England we are well aware that foreigners who learn our language often speak it better than we do. An Italian friend of mine used the word ‘animus’ in conversation the other day. Great word, quite useful to know, but I doubt a single native English speaker has ever used it.
My favourite word in the whole world is the Italian for tortoise: ‘Tartaruga’. Words don’t get any better than that.
No native speaker has ever used the word “animus” … ? Ianzin, I know for a fact you’ve seen “The Web Planet”, just for starters 
… and, even outside the context of 1960s Doctor Who villains, “animus” is a handy word, and at only three syllables it hardly even counts as a sesquipedalianism …
I was intrigued to discover that “vug” is a real word, outside of Philip K. Dick novels. Turns out it’s Cornish dialect for a rock cavity lined with crystals (a geode, maybe?). Of course, once I’d seen the word in this context for the first time, I found myself spotting it in all sorts of places shortly thereafter. You might say I was completely surrounded by vugs.
I get a new “Word of the Day” by email every day. Most words most doper would know already, but sempiternal might not be one of them.
It means of never ending duration; having beginning but no end; everlasting; endless.
Example sentence
In all the works on view, Mariani conjures a sempiternal realm that exists
parallel to mundane reality and which is accessible through art, reverie and the
imagination.
— Gerard Mccarthy, "Carlo Maria Mariani at Hackett-Freedman,"
Art in America, September 1999
Sempiternal comes from Medieval Latin sempiternalis, from Latin sempiternus, a
contraction of semperaeternus, from semper, “always” + aeternus, “eternal.”
Synonyms include enduring, eternal, everlasting and perpetual.
A frind found the word usufruct, and I’m now quite enamored with it. It has a useful meaning, and is nicely u-ey.
not a recent acquisition, but I like the chemical names tetraflluoroethane and hexametaphosphate.
gardyloo! – this one is going to come in soooo handy when I’m in polite company and need a reasonable substitute for bullshit.
It’s an old word from Edinburgh. It was used as a warning that the contents of the…uh…slop jar were about to be tossed out the window into the street or yard below. :eek:
I find it absurd
That ‘lucubrate’
Being just one word
can translate
as working hard,
pedanticly,
pretentiously,
perspiringly,
or not, by night
Or candlelight!
Uh…what sort of circumstances led you to know the word priapic? That means what i think it means, doesn’t it? Hope you don’t need to use it in a real sentence soon 
I called up my sister to ask her about hares and rabbits, and she used the words precocial and altricial on me.
Oolong;
and my personal favorite which I have never had the oppertunity to use yet in conversation (I’m anxiously waiting): Conurbation.
I will need to look priapic up again because I thought it meant something that is inanimate but given great value and taken care of with great care…such as a “Priapic car” but I could be dead wrong and now I am afraid to know what it might really mean. :smack:
ludacrurare – Latin meaning “to work by lamp light.” Cicero used it to describe his working habits because it was very uncommon to continue working into the night, life shut down after sunset usually. But Cicero was a workaholic.
Penumbra (not specifically referring to the area around the sun).
This word came up in a crossword puzzle recently: subdeb. I had absolutely no idea what it could mean. It’s a shortened form of subdebutante.
jiggermast also came up in a crossword puzzle - today, in fact.
Specifically, the clue reads: Like a jiggermast
Dictionary.com’s definition reads spoiler/n : any small mast on a sailing vessel; especially the mizzenmast of a yawl [syn: jigger]/spoiler.
The answer consists of just three letters: Spoiler/aft/Spoiler
I hope I did the spoiler thing right.