Words for Nerds
Filed Under (etcetera) by Don C on 13-03-2008
I too love this kind of stuff. The world’s hardest vocabulary test:
- Schadenfreude
- Defenestration
- Adumbrate
- Encomium
- Blandish
- Turpitude
- Fribble
- Solipsism
- Captious
- Protean
- Tenebrous
- Otiose
- Puissant
- Hegemony
- Tertiary
- Bathos
- Antediluvian
- Fugacious
- Sinecure
- Defalcate
- Heuristic
- Quotidian
- Avuncular
- Somnolent
- Juggernaut
- Recondite
- Peripatetic
- Parsimonious
- Bricolage
- Punctilio
- Numinous
- Grampus
- Transmogrify
- Pismire
- Nictitate
- Crenel
- Gravamen
- Insuperable
- Fungible
- Putative
- Palaver
- Panoply
- Aplomb
- Haruspice
- Moribund
- Foozle
- Nostrum
- Moil
- Flagitious
- Draconian
- Soporific
- Aril
- Flivver
- Jejune
- Frowzy
- Canard
- Qua
Interestingly, many of these words I can use correctly in a sentence but not apply a formal definition. When I read them in a book I know what they mean in context, but couldn’t state the exact meaning. I guess that is a sign of a weak vocabulary. If I kept a dictionary handy as I read not only would my vocabulary be much better but I could use the words more in my own writing.
Via Dangerblond
I think I’m gonna make like a 50 on this quiz, D.