Expanding your vocabulary is not floccinaucinihilipilificatious

[Guildedagain]

Deliquescent
Adjective: Becoming liquid, or having a tendency to become liquid.

Flabbergast
Verb: Surprise someone greatly.

Flimflam
Noun: Nonsensical or insincere talk.

Floccinaucinihilipilification
Noun: The action or habit of estimating something as worthless.

Limerence
Noun: The state of being infatuated or obsessed with another person.

Loquacious
Adjective: Tending to talk a great deal; talkative.

Obdurate
Adjective: Stubbornly refusing to change one’s opinion or course of action.

Omnishambles
Noun: A situation that has been comprehensively mismanaged, characterized by a string of blunders and miscalculations.

Penumbra
Noun: The partially shaded outer region of the shadow cast by an opaque object.

Persiflage
Noun: Light and slightly contemptuous mockery or banter.

Perspicacious
Adjective: Having a ready insight into and understanding of things.

Quincunx
Noun: An arrangement of five objects with four at the corners of a square or rectangle and the fifth at its centre, used for the five on a dice or playing card.

Tintinnabulation
Noun: A ringing or tinkling sound.

Triskaidekaphobia
Noun: Extreme superstition regarding the number thirteen.

Velleity
Noun: A wish or inclination not strong enough to lead to action.

 

[Coop47]

"Expanding your vocabulary is not floccinaucinihilipilificatious."​

Just a few days ago, I was saying this same exact thing to a co-worker.

 

[dreadnut]

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis​

a lung disease caused by particles of silicone. Longest word in the dictionary.

 

[geoguy]

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis​

a lung disease caused by particles of silicone. Longest word in the dictionary.

Silica dust, actually, e.g. from volcanic ash, not silicone.

Tough word to slip into casual conversation!

 

[davismanLV]

Tough word to slip into casual conversation!

I'm pretty good with complicated., combining forms of medical words but after the third time through on that one, I gave UP!! And that would have to be a fairly interesting CASUAL conversation!!!

 

[Opsimath]

I'm pretty good with complicated., combining forms of medical words but after the third time through on that one, I gave UP!! And that would have to be a fairly interesting CASUAL conversation!!!

Pneumono-ultra-microscopic-silico-volcano-coniosis.

Did that help?

 

[Boneman]

That one has me flummoxed

 

[gjmalcyon]

Our first trip to Hawai'i with Things Ones and Two, they were young enough that learning the name of the state fish tickled them:

Humuhumunukunukuapua`a​

 

[Midnight Toker]

I think German and it's crazy long compound words even has Hawaiian beat.

 

[dreadnut]

Silica dust, actually, e.g. from volcanic ash, not silicone.

Tough word to slip into casual conversation!

Hence the volcano in the word, eh?

 

[West R Lee]

Deliquescent
Adjective: Becoming liquid, or having a tendency to become liquid.

Flabbergast
Verb: Surprise someone greatly.

Flimflam
Noun: Nonsensical or insincere talk.

Floccinaucinihilipilification
Noun: The action or habit of estimating something as worthless.

Limerence
Noun: The state of being infatuated or obsessed with another person.

Loquacious
Adjective: Tending to talk a great deal; talkative.

Obdurate
Adjective: Stubbornly refusing to change one’s opinion or course of action.

Omnishambles
Noun: A situation that has been comprehensively mismanaged, characterized by a string of blunders and miscalculations.

Penumbra
Noun: The partially shaded outer region of the shadow cast by an opaque object.

Persiflage
Noun: Light and slightly contemptuous mockery or banter.

Perspicacious
Adjective: Having a ready insight into and understanding of things.

Quincunx
Noun: An arrangement of five objects with four at the corners of a square or rectangle and the fifth at its centre, used for the five on a dice or playing card.

Tintinnabulation
Noun: A ringing or tinkling sound.

Triskaidekaphobia
Noun: Extreme superstition regarding the number thirteen.

Velleity
Noun: A wish or inclination not strong enough to lead to action.

However, it is magniloquent.

West

 

[Guildedagain]

Good one ;]

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https://www.merriam-webster.com › dictionary › magni...

The meaning of MAGNILOQUENT is speaking in or characterized by a high-flown often bombastic style or manner. How to use magniloquent in a sentence.

 

[Sal]

Here's a couple I'd found interesting and set aside in recent years.

mythomane - a person with a strong or irresistible propensity for fantasizing, lying, or exaggerating.
panjandrum - a self-important or pretentious official / Grand Panjandrum

 

[Midnight Toker]

^ I can see both of those having been used regularly in recent years!!

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

I had a friend who used that one all the time in high school.

For all the good it did him.