Good day Friends!
Hope you have had a week. Mine was quite quiet really, and of course at this time of year I had a cold.
Okay so you may remember that in a past post I mentioned a book with lots of pretentious words and so today here is a list for the best ones to use everyday!
Axiopisty - the quality that makes something worthy of trust.
Behemoth - something that is unusually big or powerful.
Cacoepy - the mispronunciation of words
Dangleation - dallying with girls, flirtation
Ebullition - A sudden, unrestrained expression of emotion
Flapdoodle - nonsense, foolish talk
Gracile - Slender, Willowy
Hornswoggle - To cheat, deceive or hoax
Immorigerous - rude, boorish, obstinate, disobedient
Jim-Jams - A state of nervousness or febrile excitement - A pair of pyjamas.
Kalopsia - A condition in which things appear more beautiful then they are actually are
Lapidose - Having an abundance of stones
Mellisonant - Sweet sounding, pleasing to the ears, dulcet
Noctavagous - Wandering in the night.
Oniomania - A compulsion to make purchases
Parisology - the use, especially deliberately, of ambiguous words
Quacksalver - A quack or a Charlton
Remontado - Someone who returns to the mountains to avoid civilization
Sawder - flattery, exaggerated and ingratiating praise
Tellurian - An inhabitant of earth
Unasinous - Equal to stupidity
Venial - pardonable, excusable
Whangdoodle - an imaginary creature which features in North American Folklore and Roald Dahls stories.
Xenoglossia - the spontaneous use of a foreign language that the user has not heard before or learned.
Yaffle - to eat and drink, especially noisily and greedily
Zoonist - someone who believes that nature as a whole or natural objects are living beings.
Okay so that was an a - z of pretentious words for everyday. I hope you enjoyed and have a great week.
Goodbye for now x
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