forum throw me your favorite random vocab words

Started April 29, 2021 by @Larcenist-Arsonist groupswimming with sharks

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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.

alexithymia
/əˌleksəˈTHīmēə/

the inability to recognize or describe one's own emotions.
"alexithymia has been linked to depression and suicidal behavior"

Alexithymia is a broad term to describe problems with feeling emotions. In fact, this Greek term used in Freudian psychodynamic theories loosely translates to “no words for emotion.”

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