17 words
A few years ago I found a website that hosted lists of various things. One of them was a list of strange and obscure words. I copypasted the list into a txt file and have been adding words I come across ever since. There were 23 words in the original list. Here are my next 17 words.
- 24. woolgather:
- to engage in fanciful daydreaming.
- 25. brobdingnagian:
- something of huge size, tremendous.
- 26. ambergris:
- an opaque, ash-colored secretion of the sperm whale intestine, used in perfumery.
- 27. tchotchke:
- an inexpensive souvenir, trinket, or ornament.
- 28. daedalian:
- difficult to understand because of intricacy.
- 29. abacinate: (ll. abacinatus)
- to blind by a red-hot metal plate held before the eyes.
- 30. crepuscule:
- twilight; dusk.
- 31. lamister:
- a fugitive from the law.
- 32. frondescence:
- the process or period of putting forth leaves, as a tree, plant, or the like.
- 33. umbrage:
- leaves that afford shade, as the foliage of trees.
- 34. verdure: (ll. viridis)
- greenness, esp. of fresh, flourishing vegetation.
- 35. Shrovetide:
- the three days before Ash Wednesday, once a time of confession and absolution.
- 36. chutzpah:
- unmitigated effrontery or impudence; gall. audacity; nerve.
- 37. braggadocio:
- empty boasting; bragging. a boasting person; braggart.
- 38. demur:
- to make objection, esp. on the grounds of scruples; take exception; object.
- 39. demiurge:
- a supernatural being imagined as creating or fashioning the world in subordination to the Supreme Being, and sometimes regarded as the originator of evil.
- 40. firedamp:
- a combustible gas consisting chiefly of methane, formed esp. in coal mines, and dangerously explosive when mixed with certain proportions of atmospheric air.
I’ll post the following 17 in some time.
