WingColors

Pathogenic ocular dissonance

Megalomaniacal.

"Vying" has forever vied a place in my heart.

"Errant" is a fun word to use. I enjoy using "uncouth" and "gibbous" where I can, too. However, "capricious" and "fatuous" have always been favourites for me. They sound so good spoken, especially with a little venom.

Anomalous Propagation

Or my favorite weather term: Virga.

Syzygy. Can you pronounce it? =)

Besmirched.

And I always love to say "ooodles" (or "oooooooooooooodles" depending on how silly I'm feeling).

"siz-uh-gee"

I like the word "indicative"... but I use it all the time :)

My wife said "unkempt" the other day.

Phrontistery - A thinking Place
Phrontiste - A thinker

i like using connotation.. i don't know why.. i suck...

Defenestrate! - To throw out of a window. It makes me happy that we have a word for that precise action. I don't know why. :D LOL
Masticate. Because "chew" gets so, so old.

I always love "prostrate"... it makes people who aren't paying attention go "wait... WHAT?"

Verbatim.

Is that punny? Say it is, someone. Please.

That's punny!

All my life we've used (and loved) the word 'hypercrepidate' in our family. As far as we were ALL concerned, it meant 'to fiddle'. We all do that a lot, so "just stop hypercrepidating and listen you two!" was yelled at my brother and me a fair amount as we grew up. We got the word from my father who in turn got it from his father...

Turns out that my grandfather pulled a fast one on my dad. Hypercrepidate never has been, and (my best efforts to the contrary) probably never will be, a real word. I just wish my grandfather was still alive so we could ask him if he invented the word, or if HIS father had told it to him.

Cas, that's hilarious. Perhaps my grandfather could've also been that cunning; I mean, if he could speak English at all when he was alive. :) So how many years did your family use "hypercrepidate" before looking it up in the dictionary?

(@RightOn: Thanks for obliging. You made my day.)

"castigate"

@estar - we never bothered to look it up because we just knew it was a word. It was only last year because of a variety of reasons I decided to plug it into Google and see what came out. When I got zippa, rein, nada, we were all forced to come to the realisation that it isn't a word :( That doesn't stop us using it, but it does stop us being smug of our superior vocabulary and using it to win scrabble matches.

Then again it had genuine meaning to all our extended family and friends who've known us since year dot, so who's to say it can't be a proper word? I mean, all words had to start out somewhere, right?

Insipid, pusillanimous, bellicose, quartile and fecundity are all words which I don't use nearly enough. Preposterous!

@peroty: I set my twitter status to "Masticating" yesterday during lunch!

My son and I watch EPL and the commentator uses the word "shambolic".
I believe it is British slang, but we love the word. It means disorderly or chaotic.

@jownewbreed

hahahaha! Awesome. :D
I try to find and interject interesting words into my speech and typing. I'll have to fave this list and try some out. :D

Whenever possible I try to incorporate "Inconceivable!" into my conversations...

I've always liked dire, circuitus, derth, and of course pygmalion. Love it when I can drop those into a conversation.

One other word I try to work in at the end of a conversation without sounding like a nut is "Ciao!" - I just like the way it sounds.

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I made up the word "gazillions" meaning "an awful lot" but I only use it in my personal life. My mother made up words that I always thought were Yiddish. At work, I u
There's something immensely satisfying when I find exactly the right word or phrase to express an idea in writing.

Cappuccino - do I take it you're a "Princess Bride" fan?

I don't know if it's a universal thing, or if it's just bloggers who tend to say things and then think "Hey, that's really cool! I want the whole world to know I said that!"