/lit/ - Literature

>>18409281
Vex
Tither
Foosty

>>18409288
>Vex
That's a good one.

nigger

Satyromaniac

circumspect

>>18409302
hhhhhhhhhhh

>>18409281
clem: a fight or brawl especially between circus or carnival workers and the local townsfolk

Pulchritudinous.

erroneous

seaboard
miffed

Nigger

Niggardly

Niggardly

>>18409281
Wallow
Dredge
Combe

Lugubrious

Snigger spelled "snigger", not "snicker".

Laconic

"Gay" in its original sense.

>>18409912
Snigger is British, snicker is american

>>18409281
A few unusual words I like the sound of:

>Blivet (noun)
Small useless annoying object

>Beek (verb)
To bask in warmth (typically the sun) like a cat

>Futtock (noun)
One of the big curved wooden ribs in an old ship

>Grinagog (noun)
A foolish person who is always grinning

>Groak (verb)
Stare longingly at someone eating (the way dogs do)

>Zaftig (adjective)
Voluptuous; plump in a sexy, appealing way

>>18409281
Truth
Thief
Friend
Die
Nigger
BUCKED

>>18410692
>>Zaftig (adjective)
That just means juicy in germanic languages kek

>>18410692
>>Zaftig (adjective)
>Voluptuous; plump in a sexy, appealing way

That's weird, I was thinking about that word too

Defenestrate

idk i dont sit around and think about which words i don't use

>>18409281
Nostrum
Lustrum
Perspicacity
Deciduous
Baleful
Otiose
Jejune
Cozenage
Peccadillo
Vertiginous
Oneiric
Epigeal
Ablute
Concupiscent
Concatenate
Concomitant
Aporia
Stilicide
Nacreous
Sequacious
Palimpsest
Glabrous
Caducity
Senescence
Lacuna
Reticulate
Conterminous
Moonset
Obstreperous
Sartorial
Mendacious
Fictile
Invidious

>>18411129
Not much of that going on nowadays, unfortunately. Wishing for the day when "defenestrated" is printed in bold on newspaper faces.

The entire Irish language. Wish I could speak it fluently, wish I could speak it fluently with my friends. Wish I could appreciate my own country's poetry.

>>18411129
>>18411240
You can both still use fenestrated

Quizzical
Quotidian
Querulous

the

>>18409293
Move to Suffolk.

I
Love
You
Too

Niggardly

>>18409281
Sneed

>>18409281
"Nigger"

>>18409302
>implying

Efficacious

>>18409281

Faggot, Nigger, Jew, Subhuman, etc.

anachronistic. (is there a word for this for space rather than time? just meaning "out of place")

also opprobrium. burden usually works better, there's not enough situations that call for the extra sense of foreboding atmosphere

>>18409281
Everything Faulkner overuses:
repudiate
apotheosis
immolate
...to name a few

>>18411186
Use as many of these in a sentence as you can.

I make sure to use imbroglio as much as I can without sounding too far gone.

>>18411815
You could type them to friendly anons.

>>18409281
Boner

>ctrl+F nigger
>8 matches
based

>>18413220
Well, there is "ectopic", which is literally that, something that's out of its proper position. I think it's considered jargon (ESL here), but in theory you could use it outside of medical context, since it's an actual word and could have a wider meaning.

>>18409914
Too hellenistic

diaphanous
its so pretty no homo but you sound retarded with modern vernacular

>>18409281
>vile
Lefties use it all the time

Vitriol
Cantankerous

>>18409281
Daddy's cummies

Nonchalant.

>>18409281
Favorite Words :

baby-mama
tendies
wagon-burner
pillow-biter
muffin top
irrumation
gam
poetaster
callipygian

Bethink

>>18409293
Common in French.

>>18409918
Fag too while we're at it.

>>18409281
cumnails

>>18409281
quikokokokojumunji

>>18409281

vapid
obfuscate
repudiate
anodyne
ameliorate
cloying
saccharine
paroxysm
circumlocution
prevaricate

I like these because their often specific and economical since they can stand in for a string of other words.

congruent
conspicuous
kike
decimate (in its roman meaning)
spic
harlot

Elanguescence

>>18413220
Aberrant maybe?

>>18409281
fraud
racket
mountebank
heresy
demagogue
cult
Phineas
fiend
ludicrous
broadside
invective
cunt
demagogue
mepphitic
lofty
wanton
formal
process
cimmerian
Mildred
Barbara

>>18409281
Ostensible and ostentaneous

I keep forgetting their meaning because they only appear in ostentaneous works

>>18409281
licentious

Viz

>>18413347
The baleful nostrum was a most otiose remedy, and didn't produce the oneiric, concupiscent lacuna from mundanity.

Buck

How come I know the meaning of like 80-90% of the words posted here but whenever I try to express myself and write something I feel my vocabulary availability shrinks.

>>18417573
Recognising and recalling are two different things.
I can understand Spanish pretty well but if I tried to string together a sentence I'd sound like a retard. It's also worth knowing that you can use all of the words in the right context but it can still come off as weird. Really brilliant authors with inbuilt thesaurus' like Nabokov and McCarthy are comfortable enough with the language to use obscure words in ways that you and I wouldn't have even thought of.

>>18417573
Recognising and recalling are two different things.
I can understand Spanish pretty well but if I tried to string together a sentence I'd sound like a retard. It's also worth knowing that you can use all of the words in the right context but it can still come off as weird. Really brilliant authors with inbuilt thesauruses like Nabokov and McCarthy are comfortable enough with the language to use obscure words in ways that you and I wouldn't have even thought of.

Personally a big fan of "betwixt"

>>18417683
Yes and I can relate a lot to what you said concerning Spanish, in my case with Italian, sometimes French and Spanish too. I guess the only way to become more comfortable with language is contact and memory training.

>>18417691
for me it's bemarst

>>18409281
nigger
forsake
hibernian
kike

parochial

Firmament

Kys

Kesselschlacht

Kristallnacht

>>18409281
McCarthy made it so that I cum whenever I get to use the word Austere

Lamplight. I just feel it's very evocative and nice-sounding.

Circumlocution

Purple
Headed
Yogurt
Slinger

>>18421237
That is what I named my penis.

Degringolade

>>18421421
Your dick is purple?

Toothsome
Crepuscular
Lugubrious
Niggardly
Jettison
Rotund
Wont
Obsequious
Betwixt


This is a good thread actually. Fun to think of rare words

>>18421237
Pedro

>>18409281
Neger

>>18409918
also this

>>18409906
IMMA LET THE UZI SPIT

>>18413220
Alien or foreign

>>18410692
A few more random appealing uncommon words:

>Amaranthine (adjective)
Eternal / long-lasting. (The amaranth was supposedly a flower that never died.)

>Backpfeifengesicht (noun)
"Face that should be slapped". German has lots of fun compound nouns. Well done, Germany. You keep inventing them, and I'll keep stealing them!

>cingulomania (noun)
A strong desire to hold a person in your arms.

>Gombeen Man (noun)
Somewhat unscrupulous businessman / financier.

>Batterfang (verb)
To attack viciously (i.e. 'tooth and claw')

>Desipient (adjective)
Foolish, over-concerned with time-wasting triviality.

One of the best 'uncommon' words is just a variant of a common word. I was reading a Saki short story and there was this piglet. But he didn't call it a piglet, he called it a *pigling*.

>Pigling (noun)
A piglet.

What a magnificent word. It must be brought back into common parlance.

gargantuan
iykyk

Wherewithal
Rapacious
Labyrinthine

Exigence
Augur
Nascent
Milquetoast
Sophistry
Acquiesce
Erudite

Hitler
Big Chungus

>>18424366
You can work those into your everyday speech, I'm sure.

>>18409281
Annet
Poltroon
Velocious
Aleatoricism
Feculent
Bien Pensant
Cant
Chinoiserie
Ekphrasis
Espalier
Flâneur
Nephelococcygia
Polysemy
Flyting
Damask
Pickelhaube
Tadhg
Concupiscence
Marocchinate
Hypocorism
Autochthonous
Ceteris paribus
Pilpul (i use this one all the time though lol)
Skeuomorph
Escutcheon
Calque
Gelid
Ataraxia
Paralanguage
Abscission
Isopsephy

I like how tripfag niggers are avoiding this thread. No better proof they're all psueds.

Nigger

>>18425479
>He doesn't have friends comfortable with the N word

>>18409293
its used alot in london slang

>>18425553
Yeah I hated when that became a thing.

>>18423971
>Backpfeifengesicht
I know this one because of the song named after it

My favorite word is "cunt" and I use it all the time to the point that those around me recognize it out of my mouth as a Roman observing his own native customs, and not a vulgarity.
I like "ostensibly" and use it all the time.
If you like a word, use it. Fuck every simpleton who would deride you for possessing a vocabulary when the majority of cunts never leave the abecedarian phase of life.

>>18409302
It only took 3 posts

>>18409281
really? i seem to use vile almost every day

>>18425840
U vexed, bruv?

>>18410692
The word “Zoftig” is used in the song “100%” by sonic youth. First time I had heard the word used

https://youtu.be/N3gN9Up6hmc

Supervene
Correspondence
Alchemic

>>18427541
go suk ur mum senpai.

pernicious
catalyst

I use a word exactly when the situation calls it up in my mind. It is a distortion of nature and good sense to hold specific words in mind and use them artificially.

Also, yet another thread where we list boring, normal French and Latin words lol.

>>18428519
language is always reflective, there an element of self-consciousness with everything. it's not a natural expression of the mind, but a structure that carries its own values and influences how we think. engaging with language on a 'superficial,' aesthetic level vs. using it 'naturally' is a false dichotomy

>>18415920
That's because there's a dozen other words used in English that mean the same thing where that one would be in French.

>>18428525
Nothing to do with what I said. You take issue with the notion of natural and artificial but I could've said it another way.

>>18428539
but don't you think that what the situation calls up in your mind is influenced by a lot of factors external to whats natural, or yours? whats wrong with engaging with language in a reflective way? from whence does the prescriptive stuff in language come

>>18411247
Yeah bummer, on the other hand you got the best language on the planet instead, so life goes on.

>>18409302

>>18427587
>Alchemic

New to /lit/ I see.

Ubiquitous
Sassafras
Tabernacle
Suavity
Drudgery
Truncate
Apotropaic
Flibbertigibbet
Tergiversation
Perspicacious
Cagmag
Propensity
Acrimonious
Malaprop
Lugubrious
Anhedonia
Golgotha
Simulacra
Pusilanimous
Polyglottal

>>18409281
Languid
Phantasmagoric
Facsimile

>>18409281
Ethiope
Homonculiric
froil
layphile
hardon
thespionic
thermonic
quentine
vithy
kith