What’s the most obscure word you know

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#1

Crepuscular - resembling or relating to twilight
Crapulent - relating to drunkenness

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#2

You wouldn’t have heard of it

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#3

floccinaucinihilipilification

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#4

Probably one of those Joanna Newsom ones

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#5

Crapulent sounds like a made up work from the Simpsons. like the opposite of cromulent.

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#6

Crepuscular and Crapulent

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#7

obscure hahahahahahhaaa

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#8

Oxford Dictionary Online added a fuckload (40,000) of obscure and archaic words 3 years ago, so probably any of those.

My favourite is this one:

My least favourite is TABLENESS. Fuck off.

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#10

Obscure

#madeuthink

#12

LITOTES

#13

Steviebiscuits

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#14

Stentorian

I once saw it used in A Confederacy of Dunces (which, incidentally, is a pretty good book for its use of underused words) but I don’t think I’ve seen it written anywhere else.

#15

i read a book by david foster wallace once

#16

Good word. Apparently there’s an Indian heavy metal band called Stentorian;

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#17

Good word, crap band

#18

great band as well.

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#19

Pubiscus

#20

Scolex

#21

I like soporific

don’t think it;s that obscure really, but my vocabulary is like, not good

side note - I once had a boss who did not have the word vocabulary in his vocabulary

#22

Chauvinism

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