Words you just don't get

[WellVersedInEtiquette]

I'm reading a book that describes a place as bucolic. I know what it means. I've read it before I just can't get my head to read it as anything other than bubonic.

I get it with "salubrious". I think it reminds me of "salacious" and I have to pause and remember that salubrious is a good thing.

Bucolic with me also, if just doesn’t sound pleasant!

'Shook' and 'woke'
Also, 'disingenuous'. I know what it means, but a lot of people who use it don't seem to understand the meaning at all.

Cock, don’t get that at all

Er, well I guess that explains your username, Jane.

@DadDadDad - its virgo not virgin...

sartorial, I know what it means, but it really is useless word, it kind of means nothing really and it does not even sound like it should have anything to do with clothes.

virgo is the Latin for virgin. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgo_(constellation)

Same thing.

That was me responding @jarhead123

Laconic sounds laid back to me but means terse of abrupt.

Totally agree with bucolic - sounds medical and pus filled to me, not pleasant country stuff!

Sardonic
I read as if it were sarcastic

Its sneeering and mocking isnt it? And sarcasm can be used to sneer and mock?

It is a very similar meaning, but I meant I jmentally substitute it as I read.

Ah I see

I know its a phrase but

'A sight for sore eyes'
My mum taught me it was a bad thing. A good thing makes more sense but can't get my hand around it and see it as an insult.

I always think hoi polloi means the opposite, i.e. the select few rather than the many.

I remain convinced that spendthrift means the opposite of what it actually means.

Puce...it should be a green colour not pinky

Nonplussed

I feel like it doesn't sound like what it means.

'Several' always thought it meant seven x

Inflammable.

I see it as meaning the exact opposite of its actual meaning. It starts with ‘IN’!! I’m sure I’ve used it INcorrectly my entire life.