#16

was a bad bad day, about a year ago, when i realised i’d been saying eludicate the whole time.

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#17

another weather one: i never have the confidence to use ‘inclement’.

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#18

I think you’re best off out of that one, nothing to be gained by chucking the word inclement around

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#19

What do you call a chef who over confidently tries to use loads of seasonal ingredients and then adds unusual stuff like nettles and cow pats and pigs toenails to the point of ruining his food?

Hubris fearnley Whittingstall or something idk

#20

Elucidated? I never even met Lucy!!!1

#21

“Doing doggies” in a footballing sense. No idea.

#22

One of my friends was weirdly proud of his circumcision. Huge bris apparently.

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#23

i always think ‘coruscate’ means like, to be jagged or spiky or rough or something, but it actually means to gleam or sparkle. it sounds totally wrong for what it means.

always have to look up ‘praxis’ as well (although thankfully Smug Left Twitter seems to have stopped flogging the dead word now)

#24

That’s where the Jedi Temple is

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#25

Have to Google myopic once a year and always forget what it is

#26

I’m currently doing a PhD, I literally have a notebook just for words I don’t know the meaning of :laughing:

#27

I always think of it as in burning brightness, like the sun

but it’s from the Latin for ‘flash’, so

#28

I would struggle to define the word “the”

#29

I’ve seen some new cricketing words appear in cricinfo. I can’t remember any of them.

Please read more of my posts.

#30

That’s pretty, er, clears throat, SHORT SIGHTED OF YOU!!!

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#31

Pretty huge Dictionary

#32

No, FUCK U, bris

#33

Obsequious

I mean it must really mean slimy and insidious surely

#34

I’ve bluffed my way through praxis and hegemony before.

“Oh, yeah, sure” [googles words quickly]

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#35

Thaumaturgy

@sadpunk

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