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

Well, Wrens like living in holes (kettles, welly boots, plant pots, holes in walls and trees and suchlike) and scuttling around in the undergrowth after bugs and spiders. Hole dweller or creeper makes sense to me.

You're right, it does make sense from a logical point of view. "Troglodyte" just sounds so sort of human though - I imagine this hairy bloke in an animal skin, carrying a club, not a tiny, round little bird.

Discombobulated

Also a genus of beetle.

Defenestrate.

Also a genus of beetle

So it does! Had to look it up.

Plethora

Undulating and plinth, two deeply pleasing words, especially if spoken in Yorkshire...

Schminkypinky (it still counts if it's a made up word from The Fast Show doesn't it?)

Melancholy. It seems a bit Shakespearean for every day use, but it’s such a pretty word.

Anaphylactic. I like the sounds in this word. Luckily, I don’t have much use for it.

Mellifluous

Arboreal
Surfeit
Trepidation
Oxymoron
Gumption

Antimacassar

Petrichor - smell of rain on warm earth

Scunnered. Quite sums up my mood of late.
Ditto

Defenestrate.

Although I use a Weegie equivalent when the occasion calls for it. 😈

Although I use a Weegie equivalent when the occasion calls for it.
Shove oot the windae?

Hubris

Great idea for a thread Op

I love the words
Chagrin
Soi-disant

Rumpelstiltskin

Conniption
Ghastly
Vexing
Bellend
Bollocks

Phosphorescence

Someone beat me to sesquipedalian but I also like unctuous.

Came a bit late to the thread, and am astonished nobody has said exacerbate yet. Another one for crepuscular, and I love my late DM's favorite fardel (or fardle)

@BackseatCookers I always wondered if there was a phrase for this. You are my hero

Suffice