Hartman Essay: Words to Know

From the page: " mendacious men-DAY-shous (adj.) untruthful. (the noun is mendacity) meretricious mer-a-TRISH-ous deceitful; tawdry (Note that the two words above are pejorative, but if the meaning is not known, they "sound" meritorious.)" I did know most of... more

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Rated by thestripedone on Sep 21, 2:12pm

I'm glad that somebody put a list of USEFUL obscure words together. Some of them aren't quite how I'd describe them, but close enough I guess.
Rated by jannafire1 on Jul 08, 8:43am

From the page: "Important Infrequently Used Words To Know"
Rated by texnofile on Jan 23 2009, 9:10am

Some infrequently (and some not-so-infrequently) used words. Some are frequently confused with similar words and might therefore be useful for specious approbation :)
Rated by duskwynd on Jan 21 2009, 4:47am

I'm actually kind of impressed with how many of these I actually use :)
Rated by Neticule on Jan 18 2009, 10:29pm

Increase your vocabulary, dude.
Rated by chrysallis on Dec 03 2008, 2:06pm

sanguine�� SANG-win cheerful, confident sanguinary�� SANG-win-airy bloody (note the huge difference in meaning between the above two similarly sounding words) saturnine�� SAT-ter-nine morose; gloomy scurrilous�� SKER-a-less grossly offensive and vulgar *** The fellow's sanguine manner abruptly changed and he became saturnine when his sanguinary nose problems became an everyday occurence. The scurrilous language he used as a consequence exacerbated the problem and soon left him a loner.
Rated by NoireStar on Nov 25 2008, 11:39am

Some of these are going into my final English exams this year for sure :D
Rated by Ledvolta on Nov 06 2008, 6:36pm

I like strange words.

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