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Pericombobulations.


 
Posted : 18/03/2015 9:13 am
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"Actually you were right."


 
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Lardaceous 🙂


 
Posted : 18/03/2015 9:14 am
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No

Not enough people use this word at work. Gets them into all sorts of problems.
At home is a different matter completely 😛


 
Posted : 18/03/2015 9:22 am
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Azimuth

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phalanx.

That's a great word.


 
Posted : 18/03/2015 9:27 am
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Have, as in "I could have...."

Agreed. Also, as in "Could I have..."?
"Splendid".


 
Posted : 18/03/2015 9:51 am
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Please.

An awful lot of people appear to have forgotten how to use this word.


 
Posted : 18/03/2015 10:20 am
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Silence

Disputatious

Integrity


 
Posted : 18/03/2015 10:26 am
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Flange. that used all the time here, engineering fabrication.

Bombastic


 
Posted : 18/03/2015 10:50 am
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Oaf

Vexed is back out of fashion, shame that, I liked when people were vexed.


 
Posted : 18/03/2015 10:54 am
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Apogee
Nadir


 
Posted : 18/03/2015 11:25 am
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Another vote for clot.

Also: tenebrous.


 
Posted : 18/03/2015 11:27 am
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I was at a loss at what to suggest but then I reread the original post and would like to propose "orotund".


 
Posted : 18/03/2015 11:37 am
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I'm a science teacher so spend my life using odd words two of my favourites are:

Peristalsis - the muscular movement in our esophagus that allows us to swallow food

Meniscus - curve of the upper surface of water/liquid

awesome words!


 
Posted : 18/03/2015 11:38 am
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@ElShalimo

The opposite of apogee is perigee. The opposite of nadir is zenith. Just in case there are GCSE astronomy students reading this....


 
Posted : 18/03/2015 11:40 am
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Fettle, very underused down here in the colonies.
Cockwomble have a brief high point but could be used a lot more.


 
Posted : 18/03/2015 11:52 am
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veritable
labyrinthine
impertinent
gudgeon
haggard


 
Posted : 18/03/2015 12:03 pm
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Apt

Plinth

Flange

Flighty


 
Posted : 18/03/2015 12:12 pm
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Desmodromic.


 
Posted : 18/03/2015 12:18 pm
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Circlejerk.

Another for clot.


 
Posted : 18/03/2015 12:23 pm
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Wazzock

Nadir

Apogee

Pillock (from a scandanavian pillicock, which I think you can guess what it means)

Bandersnatch


 
Posted : 18/03/2015 12:30 pm
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dischuffed


 
Posted : 18/03/2015 12:41 pm
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Fork. 😉

Who ever heard anyone say " I'm eating my dinner using a knife and forks." ?


 
Posted : 18/03/2015 12:48 pm
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Probity

Would probably be quite useful in th classifieds!


 
Posted : 18/03/2015 12:54 pm
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frenulum.
just google image search for best description


 
Posted : 18/03/2015 1:08 pm
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Torpor
Crepuscular


 
Posted : 18/03/2015 1:45 pm
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unctuous

stinkpipe


 
Posted : 18/03/2015 1:48 pm
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"Nomenclature". Always a good day if I can work that into a conversation.


 
Posted : 18/03/2015 2:14 pm
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Miasma

Used to describe a particularly pride-inducing chuff I dropped into my son's room this morning. I'm hoping some of it rubs off on him (the vocab, not the trump)


 
Posted : 18/03/2015 2:15 pm
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Ah they used to think typhoid was transmitted in the miasma.


 
Posted : 18/03/2015 2:26 pm
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Spiffing


 
Posted : 18/03/2015 2:41 pm
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Vaingloriousness

(extra points if you name the poem!!)

+1 for phalanx - i was thinking that but ya beat me..


 
Posted : 18/03/2015 2:54 pm
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vulva


 
Posted : 18/03/2015 3:12 pm
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Curmudgeon is a good one
Elucidate is a current one also, try to use that where i can


 
Posted : 18/03/2015 5:48 pm
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Such wanton verbosity pray continue. May I proffer 'poppycock', 'blaggard' and 'piffle'


 
Posted : 18/03/2015 6:05 pm
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Scantlings


 
Posted : 18/03/2015 6:06 pm
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And seeing as it's budget day I submit 'oleaginous'


 
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Badinage: the reason I come here.


 
Posted : 18/03/2015 6:13 pm
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Someone used the word "douchebag" in the office today, and I thought to myself - must use that more.


 
Posted : 18/03/2015 6:18 pm
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May I profer 'fecund'


 
Posted : 18/03/2015 6:29 pm
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I abominate your sesquipedalian intemperance.


 
Posted : 18/03/2015 6:58 pm
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I had to look in the dictionary today to find out what "Lien" meant although it wasn't all that exciting!

How about

Prurient
Impecunious
Limerence
Pellucid
Profligate


 
Posted : 18/03/2015 10:30 pm
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Gobbledegook
Comestibles (preferably cheesey)


 
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Comestibles (preferably cheesey)

Esurient.


 
Posted : 18/03/2015 10:59 pm
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unctuous

I used that (followed by the word created by omitting the last four letters and shuffling the [b]C[/b] to the front of the queue) not more than 10 days ago to describe a mutual acquaintance. When used together the two words are very complimentary if not a little jagged in delivery.

"Nomenclature".

That would've been my offering - lovely word.


 
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