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ITT: Obscure words you personally adopt to great use in your writings.

I'll start.
>ancillary

>> No.17930545

>>17930533
crenellated

>> No.17930687

>>17930545
In what context? Engraving, or war? Sorry, I just looked up the definition.

>> No.17930697

Niggerfaggot

>> No.17930703

LinkedUp

>> No.17930706 [DELETED] 

>>17930533
Sneed

>> No.17930721

>>17930687
mountain ranges and rocky hills, my dude

>> No.17930727

>Snooty

>> No.17930753

Turgid, prurient, panglossian, arrant, diaphanous, picayune, jejune, sybaritic, lugubrious, veridical, the list goes on.

>> No.17930786

>>17930721
After looking at google images, I now see what you mean.
>>17930753
I hear prurient a lot, never realized that was it's meaning. I do like the sound of arrant.

>> No.17931161

>>17930753
>Lugubrious
>>>/reddit/

>> No.17931361

Scrofulous

>> No.17931723

illocution

>> No.17932371

>>17930533
Ancillary is not an obscure word.

>> No.17932405

Daily reminder that thesaurus bashing just reveals how disconnected you are from your own culture as well as writing as an artform.


>>17930706
This guy gets it

>> No.17933699

>>17930533
>>17930545
how are these obscure
do you have a postsecondary education?
>>17930753
>veridical
lmao

>> No.17933748

Personally I just get a dictionary, pick some random words, and then create a story based on the random words I chose.

>> No.17933767

>>17932371
It is if you're a midwit

>> No.17933769

>>17930533
verisimilitude

>> No.17933825

>>17930533
niggardly it upsets people greatly in this age

>> No.17934046

>>17930533
scintilla

>> No.17934053

>>17933699
>how are these obscure
obscure: not known to many people

>> No.17934058

>>17930533
Chad vector

>> No.17934627
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17934627

>>17930533
>has to use big words to create big emotions

>> No.17934640

Defenestration

>> No.17935896

>>17930533
Based Juuni Kokukifag

>> No.17935930

>>17930533
fulígeno

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17936385

>>17930533
niggerlicous