There’s a lot of words that are fun to say, sound cool, have obscure meanings, etc.
What words do you like to say but hardly ever get the opportunity to use?
Mine’s insouciance. I love the way that word sounds, and what it means.
Salubrious. I’ll sometimes jokingly throw it into a sentence for no other reason than to hear it aloud. I also like to imagine that my friends find it endearing when I do, but I’m sure they’re just annoyed.
I am playing the campaign version of Descent (a dungeon-crawling board game,) and each time, the Evil Plot of the Evil Overlord is slightly different: this time his aim was to become a God. So it’s one of the few situations I can use the term apotheosis.
I kind of like egregious.
I really like that word too, but I find myself actually using that one fairly often.
I love the word hurple, but it can only be used on really cold days.
When I hurple
My lips turn purple.
I don’t know that word…without me looking it up, what does it mean?
Hurple–to draw one’s limbs in and scrunch up the shoulders in reaction to the cold or in a storm.
Crudite
Interesting! And such a funny-sounding word, too. It sounds like the name of a grape soda to me.
Don’t most people just say “vegetable tray”?
Pantaloon.
Only redneck simpletons.
I like the word Einbahnstrasse, but living in the southern US, i certainly never get to use it.
Argh, Pirate-speak ahoy!
Verocative.
Are you sure you’re not just using it egregiously?
Boooooo!
Entropy.
icthyophagus.
Almost never have opportunity to use it.