honorific: a title or phrase conferring respect, especially when used in addressing a social superior

factitive
pertaining to the case when the action indicated by a transitive verb is not merely received by an object but produces some change in the object. “The boy popped the balloon,” is factitive, because “balloon” is a factitive object, that is, an object changed by the verb “popped.” But “The boy held the balloon,” is not factitive, because the object “balloon” is only the recipient of the action indicated by the verb “held” and is not changed by it.

Witzelsucht: a mental disorder characterized by the making of poor jokes and puns and the telling of pointless stories and usually caused by lesions on the frontal lobe.

Wow.

subreption: phrasing words in such a way as to misrepresent by concealing facts.

prosopopoeia: a figure of speech in which an absent or imaginary person is represented as speaking.

kenning - replacement of a common noun by a colorful compound. “Information superhighway” instead of “Internet.”

glossogenetics: the theory that humans are genetically predisposed to learn languages.

adnoun - the use of an adjective as a noun. Blessed are the merciful.

Apophasis: Mentioning something by declaring that it shall not be mentioned. “I need not remind you to get your Christmas shopping done early.”

Perpilocutionist: One who expounds on a subject of which he has little knowledge.

You will learn more about this first hand come the morning of January 10th.

Dontopedalogy: An aptitude for putting one’s foot in one’s mouth.

Illeism: The practice of referring to oneself in the third person.

No one… NO ONE… accuses Mike D of Illeism.

Exonym: A name by which one people or social group refers to another but which is not used by said group to refer to themselves.

The next few words were learned through DefectiveYeti.com back in the day.

Word 1:
Tmesis: Inserting a word in the middle of another. “Hoo-bloody-ray” and “un-freaking-believable.”

Splendiferous - splendid; magnificent; fine.

I used that word in a sentence when I was like 12 or so. My stupid brother told me to stop making words up, and I told him it was a real word. He didn’t believe me. We bet each other something, I can’t remember what it was, that it was a real word. We walked down to the library and busted open the big ass dictionary, and BAM! There is was! He never paid me but he did hit me in the arm and call me a big nerd.

Now it has become something of a family favorite word.

pil·gar·lic /pɪlˈgɑr lɪk/
1. a person regarded with mild or pretended contempt or pity.
2. a baldheaded man.
pil·gar·lick·y, adjective

from Nicole!

One of my favorite words is:

dysdiadochokinesia (dis”di-ad”o-ko-ki-ne´zh?)–an inability to perform rapid
alternating movements

It can be a sign of cerebellar dysfunction and is tested by having a person sit and place his palms on his knees, then flip his hands over repeatedly as quickly as possible. A dysdiadochokinetic person will not be able to synchronize this well or will perform it slowly with poor coordination. If you can do this well, you can proudly call yourself diadochokinetic.

triskaidekaphobia

(from dictionary.com) “A morbid fear of the number 13 or the date Friday the 13th.”

Here, used in an original sentence:

Joe checked the calendar and felt his triskaidekaphobia rising: this year, his job review was scheduled for Friday, October 13th.

:)
Theresa

Jawn-Costume

An outfit that leads an unattractive girl to believe she looks hot.

Did you see what Sarah was wearing last night? Total Jawn Costume.

from Amanda

CARIOUS:

Decayed. Generally relating to teeth, but can be applied elsewhere, such as to things yellowing and ancient: “a carious piece of parchment”.

from S.McQuaid

This has nothing to do with what you asked, but I just realized that
Dr. Awkward is a palindrome.

from Jesse!

Spathic (spāth’ĭk)
adj. Having good cleavage.

Gription.

1. (n.) Having the quality of grippage; an amount of grip.

Example: Tires have gription instead of traction when they become bald.

I asked some of the contributors to send me a word that they liked or appreciated along with its definition. Today’s theme is ‘cool words.’ If you hate vocabulary, you may just want to come back tomorrow.

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