What are the vocab-expansive words that you use the most?

[mvd]

Mine include exasperated (irritated,) sumptuous (luxurious,) felicitous (delightful,) sonorous (having a full, harmonious sound,) and impertinent (not relevant.)

[HEyHEY]

1. Supercallafragil...ah fuck it I'm not spelling all that

[m-jean03]

2. labyrinthine

I like that one. :-)

[soothsayer]

3. oblique is a good one

Having a slanting or sloping direction, course, or position; inclined.
Mathematics. Designating geometric lines or planes that are neither parallel nor perpendicular.
Botany. Having sides of unequal length or form: an oblique leaf.
Anatomy. Situated in a slanting position; not transverse or longitudinal: oblique muscles or ligaments.

Indirect or evasive: oblique political maneuvers.
Devious, misleading, or dishonest: gave oblique answers to the questions.
Not direct in descent; collateral.
Grammar. Designating any noun case except the nominative or the vocative.

n.
An oblique thing, such as a line, direction, or muscle.
Nautical. The act of changing course by less than 90°.

adv. (-blk, -blk)
At an angle of 45°.


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o·bliquely adv.
o·bliqueness n.

[Sporadicus]

4. Among My Latest Favorites

supercilious - feeling or showing haughty disdain.
As in: 'Republicans kowtow to the supercilious elite.'

obfuscation - the act of darkening or bewildering.
As in: 'John Ashcroft's obfuscation over torture documents is
particularly repugnant.'

conflagration - a very intense, uncontrolled fire.
As in: 'The situation in Iraq could erupt into a conflagration
at any time.'

[newyorican]

5. fungible...

GWB is fungible with...

[kimchi]

6. loquacious (talkative), ostentatious (showy)

coquette (flirt), lacrimation (crying)

I threatened to name my child Loquacia, but I wouldn't wish that trait upon anyone.

washing dishes I thought of a few more.

Pugilistic (wanting to fight), puerile (juvenile), pugnacious (quarrelsome), parsimonious (stingy), libidinous (um..horny)

obstreperous (loud or unruly), obsequious (fawning)

and my all time favorite: defenestration (to throw out of a window)

[Malikshah]

7. Egregious and obstreporous

Just love those words..the first I picked up from the Julie Andrews schtick on Forbidden Broadway....the other is from Mrs. Slocum on Are You Being Served.

And I am unanimous in that! :)

[NJCher]

8. the polysyllabs just roll off my tongue

(English teacher--it goes with the territory.) The other day I I called for information for someone named "Baxter." The operator asked me to "B"-as-in-"Boy" it. I was pretty good through "a:"

Baxter. B as in Boy.

A as in Apple.

X as in xenophobe.


Cher

[SmokingJacket]

9. schadenfreude

(SHAH-den-froyda) Happiness at the misfortune of others.

For example, when I get tailgated then passed by some dork with a Bush sticker on his bumper and a few miles down the road I seem him getting pulled over, I experience schadenfreude.

[greekspeak]

10. whither, whence, thrice, ubiquitous

millieu, emotive, constitutional (as a noun)

[mvd]

11. Another good one is..

obsequious. For example, we will not be obsequious to the Bush cabal.