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I have said before that I like words, and I have a large vocabulary. Below is a list of words I really like. These are words I already knew and had forgotten about, or they are words I have never seen and wrote down as to not forget them. I keep the list on my pc and add to it. Any large or unusual word you would like to add, please do.
word nerds like me..... have fun!!

Surreptitiously Praetor tersely
Mendacity disingenuousness acquiescence
Substantiation aping deviously
Grandiloquent travesty Verbose
Enumerate malaise Pernicious
Duplicitous Pejoratively Depreciative
Consternation intransigence Contrarianism
Dickensian Vehemently arduous
Propound Promulgate ombudsman
Antediluvian moribund lumpenproletariat
n'est pa Savior-faire Sycophant
Contumacious vociferous Ignominy
Excoriate adroit narcissistic
Egalitarianism extrapolate brusque
Pulchritude Pulchritudinous piquant
Vituperative Ken Priggish
Bathetic anomalous periphery
Esoteric
 
Silly me i just thought of 5 more!! LOL
visceral ethereal Intrinsic
maelstrom tempest
 
Who cares about nerds!

I'm married to Nerd Man... I lurv him... what become him handsome now!
:giggle:
I don't know what my man's out of his mouth.. I still nodd'n him.. LOL
sometime I ask him what is that... but helpful each together.. :D
I'm not NERD... don't know what answer here.. Needless My man is smart.
He's Nerd computer whiz.. but anymore! He's blue collar now!
 
I love words! Here are some of my favorites. Some of these I love for how they sound and others for what they mean. (Then some just because they're more than a few syllables ;))

Chelate, polydentate, polyprotic, oculomotor, parietal, inferotemporal, distal, nucleosynthesis, pusillanimity, fusillade, enfilade, malapropism, manichean, chthonian, ananian, mendacity, hegemony, aegean, discretionary, totipotent, torana, gestalt, alacrity, frabjous, recalcitrant, ululation, fastidious, umbrage, docosahexaenoic acid, stupa, ionic, doric, antebellum, amphora, dodecahedron, tesseract, ewer, tropopause, nunatak, katabatic, satyagraha.

(Psst. I didn't get started on the math terms too. Abelian, ... etc.)

Japanese words are especially interesting because of how they relate the vowels with the consonants.

Su zu ki
To yo ta
sa yo na ra
mi tsu bi shi (I >think< "ts" is one consonant)

See the pattern? Fascinating!
 
Nice thread. I'm a word geek myself and I always love learning new words. I've picked up quite a few new words from this thread.

Ok here's some words I know:

Rarefield, sibilant, baleful, succulent, succor, eviscerate, effluent, ecclesiastical, laminate, lanquid, prevaricate, preraphelite, primogeniture, prodigious, soliloquy, solipsism, montage, mordant

I'll admit my vobcabury pales besides your voc, Southern and Endymion.
 
Here are some words I've learned:

Surreptitiously Praetor
Promulgate
Antediluvian
Contumacious vociferous
Excoriate
Pulchritude Pulchritudinous
Vituperative Ken
Bathetic

Chelate, polydentate, polyprotic, oculomotor, parietal, inferotemporal, distal, nucleosynthesis, enfilade, mendacity, hegemony, totipotent, ululation, docosahexaenoic acid, stupa, amphora, dodecahedron, tesseract, ewer, tropopause, nunatak, katabatic, satyagraha.

Some of the words that Endyminion mentioned weren't listed in the English dictionary. Also I notice most of the words are science related.
 
Hey big words dont bother me and I dont mind that at all. I am a good spelling on big words that my sister cant. Yea yea yea we are different here. :giggle:
 
Yeah I noticed a lot of science terms in Endymion’s list as well. I love large words they give the subtle nuance to a conversation that other words lack. Sometimes I read a word and the word itself is not that impressive, but the definition, I am like WOW!!
For instance “Vituperative” basically means to insult some one. Yeah so what. But the definition gives more to it. Vituperative: an outburst of violently abusive harshly critical language. Wow that is so much more than just an insult, you are ripping a person apart with your words. I love it!!! That is what I mean nuance. I get the large vocabulary from my mom. She has an even larger vocabulary. She loves to read, I wish I did.
 
I think your vocab is great too, Deaf SKeptic! :)

And yep, you're right. I like a lot of science terms. I'm a science nerd and I love it. I've always said if I didn't do what I do, I'd be doing chemistry or something.
 
Southern said:
Yeah I noticed a lot of science terms in Endymion’s list as well. I love large words they give the subtle nuance to a conversation that other words lack. Sometimes I read a word and the word itself is not that impressive, but the definition, I am like WOW!!
For instance “Vituperative” basically means to insult some one. Yeah so what. But the definition gives more to it. Vituperative: an outburst of violently abusive harshly critical language. Wow that is so much more than just an insult, you are ripping a person apart with your words. I love it!!! That is what I mean nuance. I get the large vocabulary from my mom. She has an even larger vocabulary. She loves to read, I wish I did.
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That's the fascinating thing. See, the gap that you like to cover with larger words, I love to cover with ASL.

Of course ASL is very different from English and some concepts don't translate well -- that's exactly why I like it. The concepts that ASL embodies and expresses are sometimes way beyond the scope of English. Saying "vituperative" is one thing, but then expressing it visually is a whole new world.
 
I agree with you. Since learning ASL I love it. and there is so much more for me to learn. I am as my friends say, “very animated”. When I speak I always use my hands. When I joke I usually am acting out something. My facial expressions my eyes everything. That is something I did not have to learn, it is who I am. Very visual in my communication even before learning sign. I love that about ASL that you can sign something like insult and a show it cutting you and piercing your heart and making you bleed on the inside. A hearing person would just say, “that really hurt” or if they were REALLY descriptive, “that cut me to the quick”. I love that I can be as fully descriptive as I want and I don’t seem weird, because you are supposed to do that! But i am still a word nerd! LOL
 
Southern said:
I agree with you. Since learning ASL I love it. and there is so much more for me to learn. I am as my friends say, “very animated”. When I speak I always use my hands. When I joke I usually am acting out something. My facial expressions my eyes everything. That is something I did not have to learn, it is who I am. Very visual in my communication even before learning sign. I love that about ASL that you can sign something like insult and a show it cutting you and piercing your heart and making you bleed on the inside. A hearing person would just say, “that really hurt” or if they were REALLY descriptive, “that cut me to the quick”. I love that I can be as fully descriptive as I want and I don’t seem weird, because you are supposed to do that! But i am still a word nerd! LOL
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LOL, awesome. If you're very animated, you and I probably would get along real well! I appreciate expression in people. It's very "honest" in a sense that's not as readily available with words. For the non-actor it's easier to say, "Oh! That's the cutest hat I ever saw!" than to show the proper expressions when you really don't like the hat at all.

And hey, I totally relate to the word nerd thing too. English has its perks as well.
 
Add antidisestablishmentarism. My 3rd grade teacher made us learn to spell it.
 
WOW that is long. antidisestablishmentarianism opposition to the withdrawal of state support or recognition from an established church, esp. the Anglican Church in 19th-century England.
 
Yeah that is me very animated. To me it just makes the story or joke or what ever better.
 
I don't even want to think of pronouncing this word. :run: I can't pronounce most of the big words I know!
 
Im not very good with these kind of words, but I do have a huge interest mostly with foreign words that nobody ever knows, such as Weltanschauung, Zeitgeist, Übermensch, Wanderlust, etc... Of course, it's that I read and chat in German almost everyday, but I also like words from other language as well. I try to avoid them sometimes because it sometimes sounds too cliché.

German is famous for quite long words, and several have made it to becoming the Word of the Year. I remember one year there was a word like this:

Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz

It is a law about labelling of beef. Funny word, eh?
 
WOW yeah German is famous for that. My brother loves German, he lived there for 4 years. He picked up the language really fast and loved it. Same with me and sign.
 
One of my away messages basically sums up the reason why I like to use odd words:

"I try to be a sesquipedalian to create dubiety for those esurient people who wish to perform a diktat on my intelligence."

My favorite odd word of all time are "ennui" and "enigma"
 
Southern said:
WOW that is long. antidisestablishmentarianism opposition to the withdrawal of state support or recognition from an established church, esp. the Anglican Church in 19th-century England.
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Good job! I'm impressed that you know what it means! I haven't run into too many people that were not in my 3rd grade class that know this word!
 
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