forum throw me your favorite random vocab words

Started April 29, 2021 by @larcenistarsonist group

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Just throw at me your favorite random words

Defenestrate (verb)
The act of throwing someone or something out a window

Phlebotomize (verb)
To draw blood from; bleed.

vivacious (adjective)
attractively lively and animated

apparently the word Petrichor wasn't drilled into everyone's brains when they were a child! i thought everyone knew abt this word !!
anyway Petrichor is the smell of rain, or like, the smell after rain, smth like that

Petrichor sounds like a perfume. I would love to bottle the scent of petrichor

Hiraeth
A Welsh word that is closest translated to being "farsickness". It is the homesickness or longing for a home that was never yours or never existed

I love the word so much, the song Runaway by Aurora makes me feel that way everytime I listen to it.

Hiraeth
A Welsh word that is closest translated to being "farsickness". It is the homesickness or longing for a home that was never yours or never existed

that's it that's the high that I've been chasing for ten years holy hell

Once you feel it, you spend a long time trying to gain back what you've lost only to realise it never existed

every night i drive home wishing that one time I'll arrive somewhere different :/

I feel the same way when I wake up in the morning. That maybe this time, I might be in a different place.

I feel the same way when I wake up in the morning. That maybe this time, I might be in a different place.

I- I thought that was just a me thing-

Came across a nice one today,
Antimony: a metalloid commonly found in makeup and kohl. It can also be used to describe a very dark black color.

Today I learned the word myrmidon

1. noun, (capitalized) : a member of a legendary Thessalian people who accompanied their king Achilles in the Trojan War
2. noun, (lowercased) a loyal follower, especially a subordinate who executes orders unquestioningly or unscrupulousl

Apparently the word history also has to do with legends of giant ant-people?

Floccinaucinihilipilification (noun):
the estimation of something as valueless.
I also rather like sesquipedalian:
n.
A long word.
adj.
Given to or characterized by the use of long words.
adj.
Long and ponderous; polysyllabic.

froward (adj.) habitually rebellious
jayus (n.) a joke so bad its funny. There's a squiggly red line underneath it so I guess this website thinks I'm a liar.
scintillate (v.) to emit sparkles. This is my favorite because it an sound very threatening.
paracosm: (n.) an imaginary world, also has a red squiggly line.
I have a lot more if you want them.

Taradiddle. something that is snob-nosed nonsense or a lie. the best example is the classic 'the fish was disssssssssssss beeg!' fisherman trope. usually they exaggerate, especially if they didn't keep le fish.

Snickersnee. A long/dangerous knife. hehehehehehsnickerheh

Hiraeth. To long for or feel homesick for a place that doesn't exist

Deliquesce - (of organic matter) become liquid, typically during decomposition.

I love when pretty words describe not-so-pretty things.

Fortuitous, Sustenance, Happenstance, Astral.

I used this one a LOT in 6th or 7th grade: extricate