To ask you what words you love that you rarely get to use?

[Ethelfleda]

Help others expand their vocabulary

I like ‘anthropomorphise’ and ‘Schadenfreude’
But so rarely get to use them in a sentence. So it feels good to do that here!

Hit me with your most eloquent sentences

I love the word pedantic! I use it every chance I get! Obviously not as rare as yours though

Sinister.

Scurryfunge is mine

Discombobulated - I heard it on Mumsnet and loved it.

Not technically a word, but a phrase I absolutely love... l'esprit de l'escalier.

For that feeling when you think of the perfect response to someone but it's too late!

As I opened this thread I used the word anthropomorphise in relation to the story about the two penguins :)

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-8237167/Photographer-captures-two-widowed-penguins-hugging-Melbourne.html

Carabiner
Ramekin
Detritus

Scunnered.

Quite sums up my mood of late.

Psephology

Furlough, although it’s quite popular at the moment...

Not single words, and not particularly eloquent, but there are some sentences that I've picked up from various internet forums I would dearly love to use when people are being arseholes but probably never would, because it would start an argument...

• A lack of preparation on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine
• I'm trying to see it from your point of view but I can't get my head that far up my arse
• Copernicus called, turns out you're not the centre of the bloody universe

Reykjavik
Such a satisfying spiky sound.
Rarely comes up in conversation

Crepuscular. And I did use it yesterday to my neighbor when we were talking about our cats.

Also fastidious and tantalise.

Defenestration. I love that there is a word for throwing someone out of a window

Smorgasbord. I use it frequently and always get strange looks.

Eclectic
Apoplectic
Vegetation

Psittacine and chiaroscuro are two of my favourite words, but I rarely if ever get to use them outside of crossword puzzles.

Superfluous and Precarious are my favourite words. I get them in whenever I can.

Outwith. I love the word as it's so useful and very often more appropriate than 'outside of' which sounds clumsy to me.

I rarely if ever use outwith as although I'm Scottish I now live in England.

I also love scunnered, trachled and glaikit and don't get to use those very often either

Kerfuffle and hullabaloo are my favourites.

Equivocate
Prevaricate

I do occasionally use them, but people look at me as if I'm a total dick! Oooo, get her. I clearly don't mix in the right circles

Prudent, I use at as often as I can when writing work letters and emails

Obsequious.

Amanuensis.
Gubernatorial
Soliloquise
Salubrious

All great words!

Verisimilitude

Also tickertape-timer.
Most put out to find they don't use them any more at the dc's school.
Try saying it three times quickly, it's a lovely word.