Expanding your vocabulary

[Selig]

I was having a conversation with myself recently (No, not Schizo yet) and I wondered about words that we have in our vocabulary but never get to use in real life.

My word was "Alacrity" , others off the top of my head are "Bumptious" and "Licentious"

Which words would you like to use in conversation that you have not been able to thus far?

 

[Lindsey McDonald]

Accubation. We need to bring that back. It's a great word.

I also love "kvetch", but I do get to use that one every so often.

 

[Aly Fan]

antidisestablishmentarianism....for some reason i can never get that one into a conversation. 😀

 

[white avenger]

Floccinaucinihilipilification (29 letters) is the action or habit of judging something to be worthless, or to make it worthless. Back in the eighteenth century, Eton College had a grammar book which listed a set of words from Latin which all meant “of little or no value”. In order, those were flocci, nauci, nihili, and pili. Someone put all of those together and then placed "–fication" on the end to make a noun

(Try using that sucker in your everyday conversation!)

 

[Revolver]

The.

I keep trying to find ways to use it in conversation but it's simply too obscure.

 

[JenniferAlice]

I try to say (and be) 'sporadic' alot... mostly because of Clueless.

 

[Friendly Lurker]

I like defenestration and I do try to use it on IRC!

 

[Tueuse de Vampires]

Consanguinity. I picked that word up when I was in 11th grade, very happy about how smartass it sounded and in anticipation of how I could use it in class. But it simply never came up. In my 2 remaining years at school I waited for an opportunity to bring it in, but nothing.
I'm still waiting...