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

Disrepute.
Toboggan.

I like Portmanteau as well.

A large glass of red, please

Melancholy is my favourite

Automaton (now I know how to say it correctly 😉)

lugubrious

Côte d’Azur
Feline
Hangdog
Sherry

Haberdashery.....can never seemto fit it in a conversation though!

Chirality

Adipose

Lacuna

I love the word flabbergasted
My mum says 'My flabbers never been so gasted ' and it makes me chuckle
I also love shenanigans and shyster !

Diatribe

Ostensibly
Ascertain
Myriad
Minutiae
Sibilance

I was wondering if posters could put the meanings next to the words? I might learn something then!

diasporo
archipelogo
antediluvian

Paraphernalia.

I'm quite lucky though, in my job I get to make references to 'drug paraphernalia' in reports, which I do as often as I can!

Rendezvous

Bezerk. It makes me smile every time I hear it. Sadly, I don't have much cause to use it.

I think my love of the word is something to do with this clip...

Bodkin. No idea why I like it. To me it sounds like a happy word

Rambunctious...just makes me smile writing it even

Splendid, stupendous and spiffing!

Serendipitous
Peripatetic

Some great words already been mentioned :)

Jejune.
Effrontery.
Carpetbagger.
Treppenwitz.
Risible.
Contumely.
Parvenu.

Equilibrium

belligerent

Have never used it though but it’s there for when I’ll need to