Building and eclectic vocabulary

[Cunninglinguist]

Vocabulary is undoubtedly of critical importance when it comes to reading and writing – if we liken literature to painting, surely the words are then likened colors, and it is often hard to create a masterpiece with a barren palette.
Though not really a game, nevertheless I thought it might be fun to have a thread where people post some interesting or uncommon words they know or can find and offer a brief definition of them. This way you can share your immense vocabulary, and expand it simultaneously, with your fellow LitNet members. I'll start with:

Pulchritudinous – physically beautiful
Esculent – edible
Penurious – extremely stingy; parsimonious
La dolce vita – the good life
Weltschmerz - sorrow felt when accepting ones necessary place in life
Longueur – a long and boring passage in a book
Floccinaucinihilipilification – the act of regarding something as worthless http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/floccinaucinihilipilification
Carminative - causing expulsion of flatulence

[Nikhar]

Awesum idea! Maybe it wud be even better if we make sentences with these words too. That way, they'd remain in our brains longer.

[MANICHAEAN]

Bayard - A person armed with the self-confidence of ignorance. (A politician?)

Acnestis - That part of an animal's back that the animal cannot reach to scratch. ( So next time you are playing with the dog tickle him on the acnestis. He will appreciate it.)

Onomatomania - Vexation in having difficulty finding the right word. (Not to be confused with the thread "Words difficult to pronounce when drunk".)

Deipnophobia - "A fear of dinner parties" (A horrible affliction for those who struggle on the social circuit.)

Paracme - The point at which one's prime is past" (I can relate to that!)

A mufflard - "A stuttering or blundering fool"

Somnificator - One who induces sleep in others." (If you attended some of the meetings I go to you would encounter a ------ of somnificators. (Any suggestions for the plural?)

Zyxt - A verb meaning to see. (That must be useful in scrabble).

[Cunninglinguist]

Thanks for those words and the humorous notes you've added with them.

hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia - fear of long words

patency - obviousness, the state of being patent

[MANICHAEAN]

C
Thanks for your comments. Moving on & expanding a bit, try these:

The urbane comprehension.

Imperturbable insouciance.

A premonitory echo.

Private disquisitions.