English Words I Didn't Know Before Making This List
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This list was started on 27/05/2023
Criteria for a word to get on this list:
- Has to be a word in Modern English
- Either:
- I have never heard the word before
- I have heard the word before and may previously had some idea on how to use it, somewhat understand what is meant or both, but I didn’t fully understand the word, know how to use the word properly or both
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- defenestration
- compersion
- gestate
- laconic
- consign
- consignment
- prognostication
- frugal
- contretemps
- custodian
- fallible
- infallible
- motive (as an adjective: “producing or causing movement”)
- confute
- communiqué
- scintillate
- mutiny
- downtrodden
- veracity
- regicide
- cutaneous
- haplotype
- petrichor
- pedant
- tattoo (as definition of “military show”)
- funicular
- dichotomy
- curtail
- nubile
- languid
- serene
- opulence
- covet
- atelier
- opine
- equilibrate
- poise
- demagogue
- acrimony
- boorish
- ostentatious
- ostentation
- borborygmus
- uncouth
- couth
- lout
- bricolage
- infatuation
- despot
- artisan
- pontificate
- dogmatic
- hard-nosed
- warren
- erstwhile
- maritime
- belie
- prodigious
- portent
- portentous
- salient
- glen
- idyllic
- idyll
- indomitable
- double take
- macabre
- superadd
- usurp
- supplant
- aggrandise
- maladjusted
- sisyphean
- quagmire
- bashful
- diffident
- egress
- ingress
- evocation
- ascetic
- austere
- acolyte
- dignify
- impertinence
- impertinent
- embellish
- vicarious
- shillelagh
- shirker
- impudent
- effervescent
- precarious
- sycophant
- crepuscular
- akimbo
- akathisia
- gerontocracy
- specious
- taciturn
- ideate
- moratorium
- sacrilegious
- posthaste
- garrote
- quinquereme
- galley
- oar
- levant
- praetorian
- praetor
- consul
- epitaph
- hatchet man
- elate
- gauche
- bursary
- exhumation
- polydipsia
- pogonophile
- sanctimonious
- pious
- piety
- pratfall
- paucity
- titillate
- superfluous
- antithetical
- supermajority
- catatonic
- assailant
- posthumous
- posthumously
- scatological
- scatology
- fervent
- pernicious
- egalitarian
- cathartic
- seminary
- therianthropy
- therianthropic
- therian
- bonny
- bonnie
- mousle
- sojourn
- implicit
- eschew
- parsimonious
- parsimony
- eponymous
- odious
- repudiate
- engorge
- satiate
- succinct
- valiant
- morose
- conundrum
- jape
- confound
- plutarchy
- plutocracy
- quell
- abhorrence
- autodidact
- nihilist
- antipathy
- contraindicate
- despondent
- listless
- ennui
- schadenfreude
- junta
- pedagogy
- pedagogue
- indelible
- deject
- vomitory
- seldom
- zeitgeist
- documentarian
- banal
- foci
- sublingual
- recuse
- cogent
- understatement
- impartial
- palingenetic
- metempsychosis
- subjugate
- comorbid
- benign
- meritocracy
- tautological
- impotence
- gentrification
- deft
- desirous
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