Top Ten Impressive Words with Mundane Meanings
Including "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokon". But my favorite here is "circumloquacious", which refers to using a lot of big words to avoid answering a question. Useful if you're in politics.
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Wisconsin's Nigel Hayes makes sense of his big vocabulary
Basketball player uses big words, including "catawampus" (TWITO, page 29). Sportswriters are forced to use dictionaries. One word I didn't know: "succedaneum".
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12 Shapes You Didn't Know Had Names
Including "squircles". They're everywhere. It's the squircle of life.
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12 Old Words that Survived by Getting Fossilized in Idioms
Do you ever "wend" without a way? Includes "shrift" (TWITO, page 135).
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