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ITT: Words you don't know how to use in a sentence.

Analyses

As in, the plural of analysis.

>> No.1284678

Auspice.

I try, but it never really works.

>> No.1284681

Analysises.
Pendulums.
Rhinocerouses.
Octopuses.
Oxes.

Any more?

>> No.1284702

coruscate

>> No.1284704

Myriad. Would you say "a myriad trees" or just "myriad trees"?

>> No.1284706
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1284706

anathema

>> No.1284709

perfidious

>> No.1284717

>>1284704

"myriad trees" or rarely "a myriad of trees"

"sundry" is similar. "sundry appliances" works as does "various and sundry", but "a sundry of things" works sometimes.

Beyond the knoll stood a myriad of trees.
The field was strewn with myriad trees.

Valerie removed a sundry of tinkling bells from her bag.
Her bag was filled with bells and sundry tinkling things.

>> No.1284759

love :'(

>> No.1284767

>>1284717
Thank you Mr Pynchon :)

>> No.1284777

The chemist performed a wide variety of analyses on the forensic sample.

chemist here. Use it all the time.