I spent last night looking all of these up in the dictionary just to make sure my bases were covered. You may laugh, but who’s the one walking around without shibboleths integrated into their working vocabulary?
via wordjournal, bmichael:
- sui generis
- solipsistic
- louche
- laconic
- saturnine
- antediluvian
- epistemological
- shibboleths
- penury
- sumptuary
- schadenfreude
- peripatetic
- abstruse
- parlous
- enervating
- adenoidal
- feckless
- solipsism
- ersatz
- fealty
- sanguine
- sartorial
- hagiography
- pandemic
- hagiographic
- dauphin
- antebellum
- paroxysm
- risible
- interlocutor
- swine
- apotheosis
- comity
- Atreus
- banal
- profligacy
- Sisyphean
- inchoate
- apoplectic
- neologisms
- bildungsroman
- peroration
- fungible
- recondite
- bonobo
- phlogiston
- contretemps
- appurtenances
- glut
- fecklessness
Ughh these words remind me of grad school and all my classmates who used them in the wrong contexts to appear smart. Maybe I should send them this link.
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No joke, I’m about half way done. Look...and be gone with your
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comments thread of this kind of article =/= youtube comments also, one of them has definitions for the words
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Solipsism - the philosophical belief that one can only prove the existence of one’s own mind - is my favorite word.
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freaking A. i’ll learn some of these later
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Shibboleths? Is there going to be some sort...test or something? zing! More people had
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see your point, would dearly love...elaborate further...must...
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