It’s been 10 minutes! Where are our words? 
Some days I’m fast, other days just half-fast.
…and I hope you won’t sanction me. Or maybe I am hoping for a sanction. I get so confused.
So can “fast” and “moot”
“Facetiously” contains all English vowels (I’m not counting “w”) in alphabetical order.
“Roorback” (an obscure term for a false report for political purposes), “hoodlum,” and “bird” (there are some parallel forms, but none appear to be the origin) are some of the few words in the English language that are not derived from another, earlier word or phrase.
Meanwhile, sequoia contains all five vowels exactly once, including a string of four, among its seven letters.
Civil Guy: You deserve a citation for your efforts! Take that as you wish… 
Of course, I know y is a vowel in such words as “facetiously” – in the post above, I meant all five “full-time” vowels, also known as the ones you can buy on Wheel of Fortune.
Palaver and ilk are two of my favorite obscure words. Not only are they rarely used but also sound funny when spoken IMO.
Palaver is noun meaning idle chat or can be used as a verb to engage in idle chat.
Ilk is a noun meaning a group or class (of people usually?); it has a somewhat negative connotation.
used in a sentence:
I ain’t palavered people of your ilk.
Speaking of gruntled, enjoy this little story.
Huh, whaddaya know? I’ve been using palaver to mean ‘engaged in a conversation where one or both parties got a little stroppy’. Not an argie-bargie, but not idle chatter. Like discussing the election with relatives who encompass many different points of the socio-economic spectrum. Consider my ignorance fought and conquered! Now what word do I use?
I meant to say…“I ain’t palavered with people of your ilk”
I used “detritus” in describing the junk on my grandson’s bedroom floor to my husband the other day. He didn’t believe it was a word!
The Word Detective says that Smithereens
And so I suppose the singular is smiderin.
Similar to “lot”. Except that it’s “a lot” and not “the lot”, or even “the whole lot” but “a whole lot”.
And, you don’t have several “shebangs”, whereas you can certainly have “lots” as well as “a lot”. I have a feeling that there is only one shebang.
However, you can apparently have both “lots” of something and “a lot” of something, but “lots” isn’t necessarily more than “a lot”. Of course, then you get to “lots and lots” of something. But are they whole lots?
Here’s one that had me stumped just yesterday.
Is there any good one-word adjective that succinctly conveys the meaning of integrity?
Something you could put in the blank to say, “Marjorie is ______,” rather than having to say something kludgy like, “Marjorie is a woman of integrity?”
Honorable?
Yllaria I love gruntled too and use it occasionally. So what if people stare?
Upright, maybe?
No, that could just as easily mean “not bedridden” or “lacking spinal curvature.”
That’s closer than anything I came up with…
OG!!! I couldn’t even read it all. I was rolling on the floor.
Bob
I used this word to describe the junk in my son’s bedroom, to my boss. She looked it up.
We are both editors–but she had never heard the word before.