Wednesday, 25 January 2017

Pretentious words for everyday

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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