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Unique word of the day4/19/2023 ![]() ![]() Macrosmatic - having a good sense of smell Lothario - a man whose chief interest is seducing women Limerence - being infatuated with another person ![]() Lamprophony - loudness and clarity of enunciation Jalopy - an old, decrepit, or unpretentious automobile Ineffable - Too great to be expressed in words Interfenestration - the space between two windows Interrobang - a punctuation mark designed for use especially at the end of an exclamatory rhetorical question usually written as ?! Hiraeth - A homesickness for a home you can’t return to, or that never was Halfpace - a platform of a staircase where the stair turns back in exactly the reverse direction of the lower flight Hubris - excessive presumption, exaggerated pride or self-confidence ![]() Grommet - an eyelet of firm material to strengthen or protect an opening or to insulate or protect something passed through it Grawlix - a series of symbols commonly used in comics or cartoons to represent curse words Gubbins - an object that has little or no value It’s time to learn something new, to broaden your vocabulary, to sound even more eloquent than you already are. If you can find a way to slip these words into everyday conversation, you are going to look like the most intelligent person in the room.Īa - a kind of volcanic lava that forms jagged masses with a light frothy textureĪbibliophobia - afraid of running out of things to readĪcnestis - between the shoulder blades and the loins which an animal cannot reach to scratchĪgastopia - admiration of a particular part of someone else’s bodyīibliopole - a person who buys and sells books, especially rare onesīloviate - people who talk for a long period of timeīurke - murder without leaving a trace on the bodyīombinate - making a humming or buzzing noiseĬollywobbles - a weird feeling in your stomachĬaruncle - the triangular, pink areas at the corner of your eyesĬancatervate - heaping things into a pileĬabotage - the exclusive right of a country to control the air traffic within its bordersĬromulent - appearing legitimate but actually being spuriousĭonnybrook - an uprising, a melee, or a riotĭefenestration - the act of throwing someone out of a windowĭenouement - the resolution of a narrativeĭuffifie - laying a bottle on its side for some time so that it may be completely drained of the few drops remainingĮthereal - Extremely delicate, light, not of this worldĮsoteric - knowledge that is only available to a select group of peopleĮpoch - A particular period of time in history or a person’s lifeĮurhythmic - an aesthetically pleasing rhythm or structureįlibbertigibbet - silly and overly talkative There are hundreds of interesting words that you have never even heard of before (or you might have already heard but have no idea how to use them in a sentence). You are repeating yourself without even realizing you are doing so. You send dozens of texts and spend hours talking every single day - but you are reusing most of your words. ![]()
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