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Just used 'intransigent' in another thread. Hadn't used the word in ages, but it seemed to fit.


Geggs

Which thread?

I want to see a use of this word in action.

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I've just put the word 'myriad' into my PS. I'd forgotten how much I liked it up until this point.

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Oh, and I retract post 42 (not a good number to retract, ). I found the thread, and found out who was being described as intransigent.

B

I like the word 'facetious' for 2 reasons - one is that I sometimes am and two is because it is one of only a few words that contain all the vowels in order.

I also like the word 'pedant'

Pencilqueen - I love the word 'plop' too! very onomatopoeic.

I had a feeling you would, Master B.

No hard feelings, eh?


Geggs

erotica don't get much chance to use that androgenous don't get used much but rolls off the tongue in a nice kind a way actually tongue is a nice word cause of the sound and the absurd speling wizz and brill cause they are word we only used when we were young at school : I like dropping them into conversations in some circumstances just to use them

Caress- beautiful word I very sadly don’t get to use often enough

Malevolent is pretty good too. My current favourite is excruciating but I don’t get to use it half as much as I want t cos it takes me ages to work out how to spell it…

Crepuscular.

And corruscating.

I like potable as well. I managed to work it into a conversation once, mentioning to a friend that the water in the bathroom tap isn't strictly potable. He infomred me he'd poted it lots of times!

Serendipity

Eucalyptus, omniscient and sycophantic are nice too, but there are more opportunities to use these. I've never managed to use serendipity (until right now )

That was serendipitous.

I've just used 'abeyance' which I feel is quite a nice word.

*Plug for A855641 - it's in the 2nd last paragraph, if you don't want to read it all*

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you could say it was synchronicitous as well.

I was just out & about, buying a birthday present for my sister, when the word 'truculent' popped into my head.

No idea why...


Geggs

Knowing the nature of sisters, Geggs, I am not in the least bit surprised.
Two technical terms I only learned in the past couple of weeks:
Nephalauxetic
Aliquot

Hello my lovelies

The word 'debauchery' is simply delightful, it exudes class and always sounds so Oscar Wildey. Also somewhat fantastic is the german word 'Schadenfreude'.

And 'cromulent' from a few postings ago was made-up by Bart's Teacher (Mrs. Crabappal?) in an episode of the Simpsons in response to another Springfieldian questioning the validity of a different made-up word.

Stay Beautiful

Laura

I'm quite partial to the word 'dichotomy' but I think there must be legal issues surrounding its use in contexts other than painfully intellectual books or essays... and if there aren't there really should be.

And 'cromulent' is a perfectly cromulent word.

I was not questioning the cromulance of 'cromulent' I was merely explaining the history of it.

Stay Beautiful

Laura

Is it just coincidence that you posted all that a mere hour before that very episode of the Simpsons was on BBC2?

'A Noble Spirit Embiggens the Smallest Man'

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