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

Loquacious
Verbose
Penultimate

Mendacious
Disingenuous

I weirdly love the word rapscallion! Rarely get to use it though!

oleaginous.
it's so onomatopeaic.

Outwith (I'm not in Scotland but used to live there so I miss it).
An elderly American I knew used to say "16 fits and conniptions". Why 16? Who knows.

Fuselage
Viaduct

Obfuscating!

Also my favourite expression - your lack of planning isn't my emergency :)

Actually I use "penultimate" quite often.

Slubberdegullion. There used to be a poster on MN with that name, no idea if she is still here.

Synecdoche
Ersatz
Erstwhile
Eschew
Sapphic
Mnemosyne

Thwarted
Cellardoor

Panacea
Soporific
Hyperbole
And my most favourite...vernacular

Enigma

boeuf I now have that piece by Milhaud running round my head! Thanks for that!

Love this thread!

Exquisite.. rarely gets used because so few things are?
Facetious
Delicious
Blether (means to waffle on..affectionately
Erudite
Articulate

Blossom
Slalom
Ooze

Blancmange. Not much call for it these days

Gardyloo learnt this in a history lesson and loved it ever since.
Collywobbles
Nincompoop
Eejit
Fandango
Hootenanny
Blethering
Effervescent

I frequently used to write “outwith the curtilage of the property” in reports.

Spendthrift.
Disingenuous.
Palaver.

@FilthyforFirth

Oh! I love the word rapscallion too! I used to call my DD that all the time. Now she’s an adult I don’t get to use it as much on her. I now use it on my DCat. He’s definitely a rapscallion!

Serendipity

And my most favourite...vernacular
I have had to come on as me to say... My dad has an OBE for his services to vernacular architecture. The Queen said "that sounds interesting".
and then he sat next to Brucie and didn't recognise him

I love language

Indicative

Ineffable
Antepenultimate
Preantepenultimate
Propreantepenultimate
Sesquipedalian

@QuantumEntanglement if you want to say "crepuscular" more often, get yourself some ferrets! In our household we say it all the time. At dawn and dusk our pets behave like Coca-Cola fuelled toddlers. At other times it can be very difficult to haul them out of bed to give them an opportunity to exercise when it is convenient to us. (We try to fit in with their schedule, but it isn't always possible.)

Fortunately, many people don't know much about ferrets so the subject does arise in conversation. We are often asked, "Are they nocturnal or what?"