Words

Hi,

GUILTY PLEASURE ALLERT: I love learning new unusual words. I actually read books that are about words (not dictionaries they use normal words).

It's not that I am trying pretentious and confuse everyone around me with my language, I just think that humans are one of the only species on earth with a proper way to communicate. Not only that, we have addapted this communication into hundreds of different languages. Who wouldn't want to take advantage of that? (it also helps you read books like Jane Eyre)

If you like using "text language" (UGH) Stop. Reading. Now.

1. Acerbic - Bitter in taste or temper. Sarcasm can be described as Aserbic.
2. Belligerent - Tends to fight. The womans personality is belligerent as she is very argumentative.
3. Centripetal - Moving towards the center. The dancers movement was centripetal to the dance floor.
4. Divisive - Creating conflict. The teachers decision to favour one of the students was divisive. 
5. Efficacious - Efficient. The new intern is efficacious.
6. Fecund - Productive or fertile. A woman in her twenties is more fecund than a woman in her forties.
7. Garrulous - Talkative. The garrulous child would not keep quiet.
8. Hyperbole - An exageration. My arm feels as if it's about to fall off.
9. Iconoclast - A person who attacks others beliefs. By the way he disregarded the womans religion, I soon labelled him as an iconoclast.
10. Juggernaut - A force which destroys everything in its path. The bulldozer was a juggernaut.
11. Knell - A synonym for toll. The church bell knelled ominously.
12. Logophile - A lover of words. I am a logophile.
13. Magnanimous - Generous. The girl offered me a magnanimous slice of cake.
14. Noisome - Putrid. The smell of the dead rat was noisome.
15. Obstreperous - Boistrous. The boys playing soccer were very obstreperous.
16. Parley - Discussion that is usually between enemies. The Germans agreed to a parley with the British.
17. Quiescence - Stillness. The forest had a sense of quiescence about it.
18. Restive - Restless. Soon after the train broke down the passengers became restive.
19. Sanguine - Optimistic. The childs sanguineness was naive.
20. Tenable - Reasonable. The headmasters decision to expell the child was not wholly tenable.
21. Umbrage - Offense. The woman took umbrage after being insulted.
22. Vaunted - Boasted about. The boy vaunted the fact that he had one the competition.
23. Whet - Sharpen. The headline of the newspaper whet the readers imagination.
24. Xenophobia - Hatred of foreigners. The xenophobic attacks were highly untenable.
25. Yoke - Join together. The teacher yoked the children together after lunch.
26. Zealot - Passionately devoted to something. Though unrealistic, the zealots opinion could not be swayed.

Thank you to thoses internet people that bared with me and read the whole of this post :). Please leave a comment of some of your favourite words or follow me for more of my posts :).

izzy