Vocabulary Words

architectboy · 20 Nov 2007, 22:43

In school I'm taking vocabulary and am learning some pretty rarely used words. And I just thought it might be interesting to have anyone here with huge vocabularies to show off. With each post, try to use as many large and strange words as you can, but they must be English. I'm not all that great at this, but I'll try starting.

I am not consummate, for I made an infinitesimal quirk in my Sketchup model.

Gaieus · 20 Nov 2007, 23:06

BTW "consummate" (also) means to make a wedding complete by "consuming" the newly wedded wife (i.e. sleeping with her "successfully"). It is still (by RC Canon Law) but especially in medieval law systems was needed to consider the wedding (marriage) lawful.

And of course what Ross said...

Ross Macintosh · 20 Nov 2007, 23:06

Here's some advice from a little white dog...

Next time, in promulgating your esoteric cogitations, or articulating your superficial sentimentalities and amicable, philosophical or psychological observations, beware of platitudinous ponderosity. Let your conversational communications possess a clarified conciseness, a compacted comprehensibleness, coalescent consistency, and a concatenated cogency. Eschew all conglomerations of flatulent garrulity, jejune babblement, and asinine affectations.

Let your extemporaneous descantings and unpremeditated expatiations have intelligibility and veracious vivacity, without rodomontade or thrasonical bombast. Sedulously avoid all polysyllabic profundity, pompous prolixity, psittaceous vacuity ventriloquial verbosity, and vaniloquent vapidity. Shun double-entendres, prurient jocosity, and pestiferous profanity, obscurant or apparent!!

In other words, talk plainly, briefly, naturally, sensibly, truthfully, purely. Keep from slang; don't put on airs; say what you mean; mean what you say. And, don't use big words!

Jackson · 28 Nov 2007, 23:34

@ross macintosh said:

Next time, in promulgating your esoteric cogitations, or articulating your superficial sentimentalities and amicable, philosophical or psychological observations, beware of platitudinous ponderosity. Let your conversational communications possess a clarified conciseness, a compacted comprehensibleness, coalescent consistency, and a concatenated cogency. Eschew all conglomerations of flatulent garrulity, jejune babblement, and asinine affectations.

Let your extemporaneous descantings and unpremeditated expatiations have intelligibility and veracious vivacity, without rodomontade or thrasonical bombast. Sedulously avoid all polysyllabic profundity, pompous prolixity, psittaceous vacuity ventriloquial verbosity, and vaniloquent vapidity. Shun double-entendres, prurient jocosity, and pestiferous profanity, obscurant or apparent!!

Or in other words, cease obfuscation!.

(Ross, that text is hilarious!)

solo · 28 Nov 2007, 23:57

That’s a cumbrous agglomeration to masticate on

Ross Macintosh · 29 Nov 2007, 00:24

I can't take credit for all those big words. I found the statement on a joke site. I have known people who talk like that --- real fun to be around.

Regards, Ross

boofredlay · 29 Nov 2007, 05:24

@ross macintosh said:

I can't take credit for all those big words. I found the statement on a joke site. I have known people who talk like that --- real fun to be around.

Regards, Ross

And so goes my life... every family get together.

linea · 29 Nov 2007, 08:29

Everybody in the UK has heard of this place in Wales, but others might find this interesting.When I was about 10yrs old I tried to remember and learn how to say this place name, then I got interested in girls and tried to be less of a nerd.

http://www.llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.com/

Also I found this site about long words. I am actually still a nerd.

http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1534419