English novelist Evelyn Waugh once said, “One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilization or it will die.” I love language! For me, words are like a rich and vibrant palette of color. Conversations are canvases on which people collaborate to create a rhetorical work of art. So, in that spirit, here are ten words that are rarely used, but if used at the right time and in the right context, can fertilize your speech.
1. Defenestrate: To throw somebody or something out of a window.
2. Garbology: The study of waste materials. The study of a cultural group by an examination of what it discards.
3. Digerati: People who have or claim to have a sophisticated expertise in the area of computers, the Internet.
4. Antipodes: Places that are at exact opposite sides of world.
5. Hallux: The first digit on the foot. The big toe on the human foot.
6. Otiose: Something that is not effective; with no useful result or practical purpose. A person that is worthless or lazy.
7. Cullet: Broken or waste glass returned for recycling.
8. Pellucid: Transparent or clear in meaning. Easy to understand.
9. Borborygmus: The rumbling sounds made by the movement of gases in the stomach and intestine.
10. Embrangle: To confuse, perplex, or entangle somebody or something.
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