Roborant

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Roborant - adj. Restoring vigor or strength, a restorative or tonic.

It’s a soothing word about soothing things. It’s a more subtle word to use when “innervating” or “invigorating” are too strong. It’s from the Latin robustus, the word for oak or strength.

Rob

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Coelacanth

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This was the imaginary fish that existed. How wonderful, to be thought extinct, then show up in a net in 1938! It’s enough to make one want to drop out of sight for fifty years, only to make a grand re-entry off Africa’s coast. Of course, this only works if there’s some previous fossil record of your mysterious self.

Nicole Harvey

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Claptrap

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It has the hollow sound of its meaning: early on was considered as the first applause-getter, laugh-track style. As used by an old friend of mine, claptrap refers to the emptiness of insincere words.

Nicole Harvey

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Plethora

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I’ve always had a love of plethora. I’m not really sure why. Maybe I think it makes me sound smart to use it in situations where other people would just say “a bunch of.”

Mike Vacca

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Sludge

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It’s sludge. You say the word and you automatically think of what it is. Sludge is one of those word that is that it sounds like what it is. Sludge couldn’t be anything else BUT sludge!

Greg

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How can you not love Episcopalian? The ppp-ps . . . the crisp c . . . the hiss of the s . . . the piquancy of the a. It is simply a swell word.

Robin Thompson

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In moments of complete and utter condescending superiority, when calling someone “stupid” or “idiotic” will not cut it, this little phrase is a true wonder of an insult.

Reverend Douglas William Mowbray
Baltimore, Maryland

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Bloviate

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To discourse at length in a pompous or boastful manner. It instantly paints a picture of most politicians that resonates with most of us.

Jim Averill

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Diligent

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It’s an onomotopaeier or whatever, but nobody knows it. It trudges along. It takes work. It’s harsh. It’s trite. There’s no flourish at the end, but it finishes with that nice, decisive “t.” And as compliments go, it’s one of my favorites, because there’s always the lurking suspicion that it’s backhanded — “He’s not the sharpest.” “No — but he’s diligent….”

Henry Quinn

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Hypotenuse

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I used to sing this word to myself as a child, to the tune of “we’re gonna be on Ed Sullivan,” which doesn’t make much sense. When I took geometry years later and found out it was an actual word instead of one I thought made up, I was partially disappointed, partially thrilled.

Jesica Davis
Chicago

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