cool words you learned recently

[Samus Aran]

Defenestration

n.
An act of throwing someone or something out of a window.

[LCK]

I'm going to defenestrate you.

[Daddy]

You really only learned that recently?

In before Sprankton joke


crepuscular \kri-PUS-kyuh-lur\ , adjective;
1.
Of, pertaining to, or resembling twilight; dim.
2.
(Zoology) Appearing or active at twilight.

[Samus Aran]

You really only learned that recently?

yes, i've never seen it used in any text i've read that i can recall

i just saw it on a "cool words list" since i had to come up with a cool word for a class really quick

[rdl]

brouhaha
ââ,¬â€œnoun
1.    excited public interest, discussion, or the like, as the clamor attending some sensational event; hullabaloo: The brouhaha followed disclosures of graft at City Hall.
2.    an episode involving excitement, confusion, turmoil, etc., esp. a broil over a minor or ridiculous cause: A brouhaha by the baseball players resulted in three black eyes.

[Thyme]

Defenestration

n.
An act of throwing someone or something out of a window.

I tend to mistake that with expropriation for some reason.

and deforestation

[Kalahari Inkantation]

pulchritude

pul⋅chri⋅tude [puhl-kri-tood, -tyood] 
–noun
physical beauty; comeliness

[Thyme]

pulâ‹…chriâ‹…tudeââ,¬â€šÃ¢â,¬â€š[puhl-kri-tood, -tyood] 
ââ,¬â€œnoun
physical beauty; comeliness.

I mistake that with putrid.

well putridity

[Mando Pandango]

syzÃ,·yÃ,·gy   (sÃ,,­z'Éâ,,¢-jÃ,,“)
n., pl., -gies.
   1. Astronomy.
         1. Either of two points in the orbit of a celestial body where the body is in opposition to or in conjunction with the sun.
         2. Either of two points in the orbit of the moon when the moon lies in a straight line with the sun and Earth.
         3. The configuration of the sun, the moon, and Earth lying in a straight line.
   2. The combining of two feet into a single metrical unit in classical prosody.


I've actually known this for a while but it's my favorite word. Just say it over and over I mean really.

[just1more]

I guess if you want to be the dick that talks so you can sound so intelligent because no one else knows what the fuck you're talking about, sure be my guest and use fancy, misguiding words like that.

There is the normal English language, and then there is the "I am an intelligent, eloquent, and vastly superior snob" English language.

[Samus Aran]

I guess if you want to be the dick that talks so you can sound so intelligent because no one else knows what the fuck you're talking about, sure be my guest and use fancy, misguiding words like that.

There is the normal English language, and then there is the "I am an intelligent, eloquent, and vastly superior snob" English language.

Uh, you're the one being a dick here, this is a thread about words that we think are cool, not words that we want to use to be "eloquent" douchebags.

Get the fuck out of this thread.

[just1more]

Uh, you're the one being a dick here, this is a thread about words that we think are cool, not words that we want to use to be "eloquent" douchebags.

Get the fuck out of this thread.

Sorry, it was more directed towards JMV than the thread in general. I fucking HATE it when people say things like "You only learned that recently?" I thought I hit the quote button.

[Samus Aran]

Sorry, it was more directed towards JMV than the thread in general. I fucking HATE it when people say things like "You only learned that recently?" I thought I hit the quote button.

Even still, you didn't have to take it like that. Knowing JMV, I took it more as simply surprise that I hadn't come across the word before, because he thought it was more common than that. I didn't take offense to it and I didn't think he was being a dick.

[just1more]

Even still, you didn't have to take it like that. Knowing JMV, I took it more as simply surprise that I hadn't come across the word before, because he thought it was more common than that. I didn't take offense to it and I didn't think he was being a dick.

I did come off as hostile, but comments like that are a really big pet peeve of mine. I really cannot tolerate that kind of shit, even if it's directed at someone else.

[Socks]

i'm pretty sure JMV looked up his word anyway