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

Persnickety

Loquacious has a lovely sound to it.

Curtilage - I’ve only managed to use it once but it was much admired.
Obfuscate.

Paradigm

Have you ever used ‘having a conniption’ ? I like that one.

Indubitably - I once knew someone who used this a lot. I'm not even sure what it means.

Thundercunt.

Yes, conniptions. I used it in a thread a few weeks ago and another poster said she’d learned a new word .

Let’s face it, lots of people are having conniptions right now.

Sanctimonious
Serendipity

@Ethelfleda you have selected my favourite words! Love them both, but I am also very partial to ephemeral and fubsy.
Thank you so much for this thread.

Pimlico
Vestibule
Alabama

Archipelago

Lots of my favourites are already mentioned, but I also like:
Malevolent
Pallindrome

Thanks for this thread!

Mendacious
Lugubrious

Ooo, I used "outwith" in an email last week!

I enjoy using "efficacy" - mostly because when I used it in an essay at uni, my tutor thought I had meant to put "efficiency" and marked it as a typo! No, if I had meant efficiency, I would have typed efficiency!

Happenstance

Petrichor

Crevice
Lozenge
Hitherto
Bucolic

Sausage

Discombobulated

Antidisestablishmentarianism

Detritus
Minutiae
And I LOVE saying, on an icy day
"It's treacherous under foot!!"

Discombobulated, pedagogy.

gizmo

ameliorate

bollocks

Onomatopoeia
Epididymis
Languid
Voracious

I knew the verbose of MN wouldn’t let me down