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

Haberdashery. How many shops have a haberdashery department nowadays? Not enough, that's for sure.

Bodacious

And

Overmorrow - such a great way to say the day after tomorrow

A lack of preparation on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine

One of my favourite parts of being a teacher, getting to say this with a totally straight face at least once a term 😉

Plinth
Penultimate
Marsupial

I also inexplicably love the word ‘duplicitous’. I use that where I can 😂

Fungible

Quagmire - it's sounds so pretty when it really isn't.

Mellifluous
Coracle
Chitterlings

Zeitgeist
Caprice
Avaricious
Parabolic
Episcopalian (they're very hard to shoehorn into conversation)

I love the word superfluous. It has a nice flow.
Also love “crotch gremlins” and “womb fruits” as descriptions of ones offspring depending on their behaviour. Picked those up from a MN genius a few years back. Just brilliant

Flamin yahoo

Flamin gallah

(said like Alf Stewart from home and away when I was a kid)

Bimble
Pandemonium (topical )
Lethargic

Great yet wholly underused words

Midden heap, superfluous, agreeable, onomatopoeic, disingenuous.

Escarpment
Precipice
Daffodil
Discombobulated (I note this has been taken already)

@Blastandbollocks Scunnered is absolutely not a word that is to be used rarely. It’s very much an everyday word!

Solipsism
Brouhaha
Flunk

Great thread!!!
My favourites have already been mentioned
Superfluous
Salubrious
I also like litigious and plethora
(One of my funniest moments was hearing superfluous pronounced "superflooos")

Volatile
Hiatus
Retrograde

Defenestration, it’s really hard to work in to any sentence

Bamboozle
Chutzpah
Kitsch

'Get fucked!'

I'm busting to say it to a few people in my house but I'm biting my tongue!

Megalomania and Machiavellian. Lots of M's though!

Ineluctable, chiasmus, inchoate. I’m a. Secondary school English teacher so get to Chuck long words at my students all the time. Schadenfreude is one of their favourites.

Tintinabulation
Mellifluous
Mandragora
Susurration

For some reason, 'disemboweled' also makes me smile.