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Whilst my day to day vocabulary isn't the most prolific, I do enjoy trying to expand upon it. I'll post a word of the day and if anyone has one they like to use, like to share, then please feel free.

absquatulate - verb - to leave abruptly

"...the thief managed to absquatulate before the police arrived...."

Lugubrious - adjective - Looking or sounding sad and dismal

"..his face looked even more lugubrious than before..."

Equivoque - Noun - An ambiguous expression, double meaning or pun


".....the equivoque lies probably in the words hari and harit both of which, in the Hindoo tongue mean yellow, as well as green..."

Parergon - noun - Something that is an accessory to a main work or subject; work undertaken in addition to one's principal work.

"... this making or doing was their profession; and sometimes it was a parergon carried on in leisure hours....."

Ataraxia - noun - A state of freedom from emotional disturbance and anxiety, tranquility

".....If one can rid their life of mental stress and emotional pain they have achieved ataraxia....."

Jurisprudence - noun - the science of philosophy of law

"...Her jurisprudence, up to her Supreme Court début, had been fairly liberal, but her methods varied...."

Good work booney

Paralogize - verb - to draw conclusions that do not follow logically from a given set of assumptions.

".... in seeking to find an analogy between the laws of nature, and municipal laws, he does not paralogize,..."

Umbra - noun - shade, shadow

"...in the umbra of the statue they hung, neither looking at the other, not speaking...."

Troglodyte - noun - a person of degraded, primitive or brutal character

"...don't waste your time and energy on some mouth-breathing troglodyte in a lacrosse jersey...."

Peradventure - noun - doubt,or uncertainty as to whether something is the case

"...it may peradventure be thought that there never was such a time.."

Calliopean - adjective - piercing loudly, resembling a calliope sound ( a calliope is a "steam organ", whistles operated by a keyboard like device )

"....we heard the engines give a calliopean wheeze, and the boat started to move...."

Rax

verb

'to stretch something out, or be stretched out'

Pedagogy - noun - the function or work of a teacher, teaching.

".....she experimented with various stimuli--games, puzzles, dolls, flash cards, generally adhering to the Montessori method of pedagogy -- unhurried, loosely structured, compassionate nurturing...."

Spoony - noun - foolishly or sentimentally amorous.

"Growing a mustache and turning spoony over a woman like that, you really are a fool!"

Sine die - Adverb - without fixing a day for future action or meeting

"...our counseling sessions are hereby suspended sine die...."

Sine die is the state government motto

Procrustean - adjective - tending to produce conformity by violent or arbitrary means.

"...A procrustean system, or plan, forces individuals to fit the same mold or to conform to a single type or pattern..."

This thread reminds me of a caller to the overnight talk show probably over 10yrs ago, Graham from Yankalilla and he would ring up with words like these.
Always good to try and broaden your vocabulary, but my problem is remembering them all....