Sep
9
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Now that you’ve read it that many times doesn’t it have a nasaly, kind of nasty, but amusing connotation?
Emily
US
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Aug
10
Alignment
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“As we gain awareness of ourselves we start living more in alignment with our values”.
James Bennett
Leeds
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Jun
17
Absquatulate
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Meaning to depart, decamp, stealthily. When I first began work after leaving university, my new colleagues used to have a word of the day, picked from the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, with a prize for whoever could find a legitimate use for it. “Absquatulate” was my choice, and I was able to use it in a note to my boss about a manager
who had not returned from holiday – because he didn’t want to face the music after it was discovered his project was going to be a year late…
Steve
London
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Jun
5
Abligurition
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It doesn’t sound so glamorous, but it means to spend in luxurious indulgence, particularly on food – Finally there’s a word to justify my favourite bad habit! Hundred dollar cheese anyone?
Heather
Australia
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Mar
8
Apt
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Apt has many definitions – appropriate, unusually intelligent, fitting, inclined, prone. It’s a very useful word, no? Versatile, compact, and wonderful when you just want a nice little adjective for just about any situation. I like the way it sounds, too – sharp and neat and very final, no messy ends or wide sounds.
Kristen
Northern California, United States
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Feb
26
Awkward
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It is perfectly horrible… literally. It is awkward to say. AWK-word. Sounds like it comes from the lexicon of a penguin-like bird. It is awkward to spell… Ks and Ws aren’t bigtime Scrabble stars for nothing. It is awkward to spell out loud (try it… A-W-K-W-A-R-D. You could sprain a tongue.) It contains two Ws, the single dumbest letter in the English language because it’s the only one with three syllables. It is, therefore, the summit of onomatopoeia… it sounds, spells, spells out loud, reads and utilizes letters… awkwardly.
Christopher Ames
Los Angeles
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Nov
19
Anomaly
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I always thought this word was so pretty! It sounds like a flower or type of music. I even considered it as a possible name for a (hypothetical) daughter, but decided that I couldn’t saddle anyone with the burden of being labeled a “strange or unusual occurrence”!
Felix
California
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Nov
19
Absquatulate
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It means to leave without warning, to levant (another of my favourite words!), and I like it because something about the sound of it makes me think about people sneaking away walking like crabs (like Dr. Zoidberg in Futurama).
Bob Leslie
Glasgow, Scotland
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Apr
17
Ankylosing Spondylitis
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It was my father’s favorite medical term. Having grown up heavily under Dr. Seuss’ influence, I had no idea that it actually existed.
Kathy Bee
Wisconsin
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Apr
17
Aforementioned
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I like this word because it is a simply elegant way of saying ‘previously mentioned’. Its meaning is unusually simple and straightforward. I like how it only exists in the past tense.
Dee
Galway
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