Big words I know and can use correctly

[Johnny Cool]

Circumlocution

 

[Sillyman]

Well, that certainly comes up in conversation a lot.

 

[Johnny Cool]

Well, that certainly comes up in conversation a lot.

No, but at least I know it.

 

[Sillyman]

No, but at least I know it.

I'm glad you do. I would hate to think of all the poor children in Africa that would have to starve if you didn't know it.

 

[The Squid King]

I always took a shine to...

obsiquious

You can use it more than you think, especially on the BDSM board, unfortunately hardly anybody knows what it means.

 

[Sillyman]

Sesquipedalian.

 

[lilminx]

I always took a shine to...

obsiquious

You can use it more than you think, especially on the BDSM board, unfortunately hardly anybody knows what it means.

Your spelling buddy says "obsequious". Boy, if you're going to use it, know how to spell it!

 

[The Squid King]

Your spelling buddy says "obsequious". Boy, if you're going to use it, know how to spell it!

I never said I could spell it.

 

[Sillyman]

Your spelling buddy says "obsequious". Boy, if you're going to use it, know how to spell it!

Great. Now spell mine. I'm getting sweaty.

 

[lilminx]

Yours is correct.

 

[Sillyman]

Yours is correct.

DO I get a cookie?

 

[The Squid King]

Sillyman you totally won the big words that nobody uses spelling bee.

 

[Sillyman]

Sillyman you totally won the big words that nobody uses spelling bee.

Great. Now where is my damn cookie?

 

[70/30]

Billingsgate (I'm trying to mend fences with pp)

 

[lilminx]

DO I get a cookie?

Oreo.

 

[teddybear4play]

tautological

I don't need a cookie. lilminx's av is reward enough.

TB4p

 

[LordOfDarkness]

I often wondered, what is "angst"?

 

[Sillyman]

Existentialist.

Angst is simply being all torn up about something.

 

[LordOfDarkness]

Existentialist.

Angst is simply being all torn up about something.

I see. Thanks.

 

[chromefreak]

Nefarious...

Not quite fifty-cent word territory, but it has a nice ring to it.

 

[horny_giraffe]

Here's one that every would-be-author should be familiar with:
verisimilitude.

 

[SpiceCake]

big word

Here's an "easy" big word, but it's one of my faves.


EGOCENTRISM


I think we should have to use our big words in a sentence, but since we don't......

P.S. sorry about the new thread - just a dumb "newbie" thing!

 

[Rambling Rose]

Nefarious...

Not quite fifty-cent word territory, but it has a nice ring to it.

That was my title here for the last month or so. It's at least a thirty-five cent word. I only changed it because some newbie chose it as their nick here.

I like fructify.

 

[wizbit9]

i've always been a fan of lapsidazical (sp)

 

[Rambling Rose]

Honey, do you mean lackadaisical?

lack·a·dai·si·cal adj.
Lacking spirit, liveliness, or interest; languid