"Big" Words

[WebLady]

I learned something from a commercial the the other day. It was about one of those brain age video games or something and had a guy in an interview and the boss asks the guy "Are you a polyglot?" and dude is like :whoa: :notsure:

A polyglot is a person that can speak, write, and/or read in multiple languages. I had no idea what this was, so I learned something :wink:

So anyway, I thought it would be fun to share other strange and uncommon "big" words that you might know or have learned and probably never use ;)

[SouthernQueenBride]

My FH is probably the smartest person I know. But I felt superior the other day when I got home and I was telling him, "I just don't feel good. I feel so lethargic and stuffy headed!" And he was like, "What is lethargic???" I use that word a lot and he has never asked what it means ... I means sleepy, drowsy, tired. :geek:

[WebLady]

Back when I was in high school I learned a big word from a song I liked. It was Queensryche "Silent Lucidity"; I had to look up lucidity ;) Funny, it was on the SAT and I knew it because of that :frogg:

ETA - In case someone else doesn't know; lucidity is like clarity, clear comprehensibility, not confused and such.

[frenchie]

What's funny is that most of the "big words" in english have a latin root, which means they are fairly "normal/everyday" words in french... :p
I used to ace the Reader's Digest vocabulary tests at age 10 LOL

[WBandMe]

I didn't learn ineffable until college.. it means like indescribable.

Also fustigate means to beat with a stick or club, hehe...

[soontobemrs]

How about poppycock? I now know it means "does not make sense " - I came across this word in a book my daugther had to read for 2nd grade reading class.

[SerendipityCrafts]

What's funny is that most of the "big words" in english have a latin root, which means they are fairly "normal/everyday" words in french... :p
I used to ace the Reader's Digest vocabulary tests at age 10 LOL
I have to admit that my french has also come in handy in that way too & I also used to take the RD vocab tests.

I have always liked the word "paramount" .... don't know why.

I remember writing DH an email one time and I used a word that he didn't understand. I was absolutely positive that it was part of the english language and so, I gave him the definition. He looked it up ... or at least tried to look it up, couldn't find it and eventually called me on it. It turns out that he was right - there was no such word. I dunno - LOL I must have made it up?!

[SerendipityCrafts]

Both DH and I love to confound (hey there is a good one) my son with expressions. We are dumbfounded (another good one) to find out that he has not heard of a lot of them (even though I used them all the time while he was growing up).

Put your nose to the grindstone

The early bird gets the worm

It takes one to know one

Age before beauty