Vocabulary!

I've found myself writing down words I didn't know as well as words that I thought I knew, but only through context clues. I invite you to post your list of words that you-- upon reading fiction or non-fiction-- have written down to find out the meanings later.

I was going to create a little mini-dictionary tool full of unique words for myself, but, I'd rather share-- and plus, that takes some work off of me!

If you want to submit words with definitions, I would appreiciate it if it was done by going to Dictionary.com and copy/pasting the first results of the definitions. Here's an example:

deference
noun
1. respectful submission or yielding to the judgment, opinion, will, etc., of another.
2. respectful or courteous regard: in deference to his wishes.  

and NOT

deference - respectfully submitting

This way we keep things a little more neat and official.

Here's MY list-- It's just a FEW words I picked up. I highly recommend you post them like this, too! Maybe someone will start defining them all for us. . .

benumbed
forebode
parapet
poplars
resin
carcase
belaboured
impinges
automana
cloister
apparition
dilate
congealed

epeolatry
fen
atrabilious
absquatulate
copacetic
esculent
haptic
oyez
zymurgy
erstwhile
quondam
umquhile
epopoeia
scopperloit
depone
nihilarian
selcouth
exude
quidnunc
culiage
demegoric
huderon
pataphysics
inhebetate
gulosity
noology
solecism
blarney
vernorexia
axon
dendrite
anabasis
chuffed
copernate
quiddity
sulcate
hirsute
mesic
verticil
flabellate
umbo
pyriform
erose
seiche
cirque
ventifact
arroyo
tuff


lacuna
loquacious
adoit
praxis
adjudicate
sonorant
travail
univocalic
serait
eunoia
sordor
contrivance
baccarat
canasta
fata
pall
casbah
salaam
jezebel
nepenthe
pidgin
philistinism
kibitz
philippic
adiaphoron
anchorite
unction
anele
aspe
aureole
autocephality
bethel
cenobite
cenoby
concordat
confiteor
eremite
eschatology
eschaton
exequy
hassock
kyrie
lavra
lustration
mandriarch
marrano
mendicant
obit
oblation
orant
orison
pannicle
piety
proseuche
spurious
apocrypha
quaestionary
recusant
regula
liturgical
surplice
transept
tonsure
unction
undercroft


abderian
adoxography
aeolist
agelast
agerasia
algerining
blandiloquent
bletcherous
bombilate
bromidrosis
brontide
cacoethes
cancatervate
capernoited
charientism
concilliabule
decubitis
defenestrate
dehisce
eccedentesiast
emunction
estrapade
exsibilation
farctate
filipendulous
gambrinous
gongoozler
hamartithia
inaniloquent
lalochezia
lethologica
maledicent
mulligrubs
mumpsimus
nelipot
oculoplania
petrichor
pilosophunculist
prosopography
psithurism
pyknic
quidnunc
recumbentibus
runcation
sphallolalia
tarantism
thelemic
ultracrepidarian
usufructuary
ventripotent
wanweird
witzelsucht
yclept

colorectal
procacity
garrulous
uluru
lascivious


abjure
afield
aghast
anon
apace
argent
arras
asonied
bebother
belie
benighted
beset
besotted
billow
blazon
boon
burg
cairn
carcanet
carouse
cataract
chalcedony
clamant
comely
corbel
cozen
culvert
cumbrous
curdle
defray
descry
dolven
dotard
eaves
embrasure
errantry
espy
fain
fane
firth
flotsam
flummoxed
forlorn
fosse
freshet
gainsay
garth
gimlet
glede
guileful
hale
hame
hythe
kerb
lave
lief
lissom
loth
louver
lustihead
meed
nethermost
noisome
obeisance
ostler
panoply
parley
pate
plenilune
portage
portent
postern
prosy
pinion
plash
povender
puissant
purloin
quaff
quail
raiment
recked
rede
redound
respite
rill
rondured
ruth
sable
selenite
sheaf
shoal
sojourn
sortie
stead
soccour
sward
swart
tarn
thither
thraldom
thrawn
throe
toothsome
tors
toss-pot
tracery
trammels
traverse
trove
tryst
tuppence
tussock
umbel
waif
wan
waylay
wellnigh
weregild
whelm
whet
wile
wizened
wold
wrack
wreathe
wrest
writhen
wroth
yore

Dude, what kind of stuff have you been reading?? Most of that stuff looks like Middle English and misspellings found in people's usernames. Interesting list though. I love a wide vocabulary. I look up a lot of words when I'm not sure if there's a different tense or form of it. For example, yesterday I wasn't sure if there was a noun form of "superfluous," so I looked it up and confirmed that it was indeed "superfluity." (Not to be confused with "superfluidity"--the state of matter observed in hydrogen at near-absolute zero temperatures.)

that is a f*ck load of words right there!

Okay so I went through the list and this is my conclusion. There appeared quite a few misspelled words, where letters were in the wrong order or someone has stuck an extra letter in there, with some you could put an "er/ar" at the end instead of an "a" and you have a properly spelled word, like regula could = regular . There are also names of people, places and things... Uluru happens to be a place in the Australian outback (bush/country). Others are non-English words. And some of the words on your list I'm not even sure are words actual words.

Indie said:Okay so I went through the list and this is my conclusion. There appeared quite a few misspelled words, where letters were in the wrong order or someone has stuck an extra letter in there, with some you could put an "er/ar" at the end instead of an "a" and you have a properly spelled word, like regula could = regular . There are also names of people, places and things... Uluru happens to be a place in the Australian outback (bush/country). Others are non-English words. And some of the words on your list I'm not even sure are words actual words.

Actually

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/regula?s=t

regula
noun, plural regulae
(in a Doric entablature) a fillet, continuing a triglyph beneath the taenia, from which guttae are suspended.

See? Not random garbage. If something doesn't look like a real word, throw it in the dictionary and paste the definition here--if it's not there, then say so specifically. It's kind of a big list, yeah, but so what? I dare you to make a bigger one!

OK Quandry. Is your username like a cross between quandary and laundry?  Now lets put you to the test... write a poem that uses all of these words. Any order, and form. You have three minutes! GO! ;-)

Quandry said:
nelipot


seemed like an interesting word, decided to look it up on dictionary.com, and couldn't find anything.

urbandictionary'd it and found 'one who walks without shoes; one who goes barefoot'

then i just put it into google and it says
'Definition for nelipot:
Web definitions:   
one going barefoot (note: this 'word' is suspect).
wordcraft.infopop.cc/dictionary/part8.htm'


do you write down where you found these words in addition to the words themselves?

braggman said:OK Quandry. Is your username like a cross between quandary and laundry?  Now lets put you to the test... write a poem that uses all of these words. Any order, and form. You have three minutes! GO! ;-)

I am
benumbed
forebode
parapet
poplar
resin

while I
carcase
belaboured
impinges
automana
cloister
apparition
dilate
congealed

But the
epeolatry
fen
atrabilious
absquatulate
copacetic
esculent
haptic
oyez
zymurgy
erstwhile
quondam

In the
umquhile
epopoeia
scopperloit
depone
nihilarian
selcouth
exude
quidnunc
culiage
demegoric
huderon
pataphysics
inhebetate
gulosity
noology
solecism
blarney
vernorexia

While I
axon
dendrite
anabasis
chuffed
copernate
quiddity
sulcate
hirsute
mesic
verticil
flabellate
umbo

So I can
pyriform
erose
seiche
cirque
ventifact
arroyo
tuff

And then I’ll
lacuna
loquacious
adoit
praxis
adjudicate
sonorant
travail
univocalic
serait
eunoia
sordor
contrivance
baccarat
canasta

While I
fata
your
pall
casbah
salaam
jezebel
nepenthe
pidgin
philistinism
kibitz
philippic
adiaphoron
anchorite
unction

all over
anele
aspe
aureole
autocephality
bethel
cenobite
cenoby
concordat
confiteor
eremite
eschatology
eschaton
exequy
hassock
kyrie
lavra
lustration
mandriarch
marrano

man, I’m
mendicant
obit
oblation
orant
orison
pannicle
piety
proseuche
spurious
apocrypha
quaestionary
recusant
regula
liturgical
surplice
transept
tonsure
unction
undercroft

So stop being an
abderian
adoxography
aeolist
agelast
agerasia
algerining
blandiloquent
bletcherous
bombilate
bromidrosis
brontide
cacoethes

so I can
cancatervate
capernoited
charientism
concilliabule
decubitis
defenestrate
dehisce
eccedentesiast
emunction
estrapade
exsibilation
farctate
filipendulous
gambrinous

Your fiesty
gongoozler
hamartithia
inaniloquent
lalochezia
lethologica
maledicent
mulligrubs
mumpsimus
nelipot
oculoplania
petrichor
pilosophunculist
prosopography
psithurism
pyknic
quidnunc
recumbentibus
runcation
sphallolalia
tarantism
thelemic
ultracrepidarian
usufructuary
ventripotent
wanweird
witzelsucht
yclept

Except!
colorectal
procacity
garrulous
uluru
lascivious

So I can
abjure
afield
aghast
anon
apace
argent
arras
asonied
bebother
belie
benighted
beset
besotted
billow
blazon
boon
burg
cairn
carcanet
carouse
cataract
chalcedony
clamant

While being
comely
corbel
cozen
culvert
cumbrous
curdle
defray
descry
dolven
dotard
eaves
embrasure
errantry
espy
fain
fane
firth
flotsam
flummoxed
forlorn
fosse
freshet
gainsay
garth

Think about your
gimlet
glede
guileful
hale
hame
hythe
kerb
lave
lief
lissom
loth
louver
lustihead
meed
nethermost
noisome
obeisance
ostler

While I smell it’s
panoply
parley
pate
plenilune
portage
portent
postern
prosy
pinion
plash
povender
puissant
purloin
quaff
quail
raiment
recked
rede
redound
respite
rill
rondured
ruth
sable
selenite
sheaf
shoal
sojourn
sortie
stead
soccour
sward
swart
tarn
thither
thraldom
thrawn
throe
toothsome
tors
toss-pot
tracery
trammels
traverse
trove
tryst
tuppence
tussock
umbel

Don’t just
waif
wan
waylay
wellnigh
weregild
whelm
whet
wile
wizened
wold
wrack
wreathe
wrest
writhen
wroth
yore

BOOOOOM!!!

aglitch said:[quote-76892-Quandry]
nelipot


seemed like an interesting word, decided to look it up on dictionary.com, and couldn't find anything.

urbandictionary'd it and found 'one who walks without shoes; one who goes barefoot'

then i just put it into google and it says
'Definition for nelipot:
Web definitions:   
one going barefoot (note: this 'word' is suspect).
wordcraft.infopop.cc/dictionary/part8.htm'


do you write down where you found these words in addition to the words themselves?[/quote]

No, but how extraordinary! I would love to record their sources as well, if dictionary.com doesn't hold it. Informal words count as well. It's funny, though; I'm almost sure I saw that word on Dictionary.com before, but I just checked-- it's not there, you're right. Do tell if you find anymore like this!

But as mentioned above, I don't find quandry in dictionary.com either. Your coinage?

peacemaker said:But as mentioned above, I don't find quandry in dictionary.com either. Your coinage?

I think it used to be an attempt to write "Quandary", but since it was taken, I wrote "Quandry". So, I suppose yes, it's my coinage.

Super. Not trying to be a dick to you. All in good humor. But since Steve asked, it made me curious.

peacemaker said:Super. Not trying to be a dick to you. All in good humor. But since Steve asked, it made me curious.

I couldn't imagine you've done anything wrong, homey. It's all good in the hood. Keep it real, home dog!

Nor was I being a dick. I was funning too. Nice list. I may steal a few of these words soon for a poem. (don't worry, not all, I won't plagiarize your 3 minute poem, man).

Haha, nice. I might come up with another list soon