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Interesting Words List

Agrestic: Someone who is rude, uncouth and uncultured.

Ubiquitous: Which seems everywhere or omnipresent.

Ecdysiast: A striptease artist.

Bailiwick: An area of interest, activity or authority.

Insinuation: A malicious implication.

Animadversion: A harsh critical remark.

Epistemology: Related to philosophy, which studies the science of how we know things.

Banal: Boring, rudimentary, something that is not original.

Godspeed: Success or fortune.

Schadenfreude: Sadistic pleasure derived from someone's misfortune.

Porphyrophobia: Fear of the color purple.

Senescence: Growing old or aging.

Euphony: Bearable or agreeable sound.

Quixotic: Extremely romantic and chivalrous.

Jocularity:Funny or joking speech; joking behavior

Mendacity: A pretense; a false appearance.Obloquy: An oral or verbal abuse towards a person.

Ribaldry: Behavior inclining towards indelicacy.

Heebie-Jeebies: Nervous jitters.

Corpulent: Extremely fat.

Ennui: Boredom or joblessness.

Callipygian: Well toned buttocks.

Penultimate: Next to last.

Kakistocracy: Government chosen by the worst class of citizens.

Uxorious: Extremely submissive to one's wife.

Ichthyophagous: One that feeds on fish.

Hebetudinous: One who lacks mental stimulation, dull-minded, very lethargic.

Mammiferous: Having mammary glands.

Tatterdemalion: A shabbily dressed person.

Jejune: Nothing interesting; rudimentary.

Solipsism: It is a philosophical belief that only the self exists.

Hedonism: A belief that happiness is the only good thing in life.

Hiatus: A break; a pause.

Hispid: Coarse bristle like hair, especially of animals or plants.

Perspicacious: To have a very good judgment.

Condign: A well deserved punishment.

Deipnosophist: A person with excellent dinner table conversation skills.

Eleemosynary: Pertaining to charity.

Pareidolia: A psychological phenomenon, wherein a person has the notion of seeing faces of people inclouds, hearing hidden messages and other such unusual feelings.

Pleonasm: Use of redundant words.

Syzygy: Linear alignment of 3 celestial bodies (the sun, the moon and the earth).

Tmesis: Separating parts of a word by using another word.

Pilgarlic: A bald head.

Sesquipedalian: Using long words.

Sciolism: Superficial and pseudo knowledge.

Stegophilist: A person who climbs buildings for the sake of fun.

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Lost Interesting Words

Acrasial: Short tempered or ill tempered.

Adimpleate: To fill up; to make something full.

Aeipathy: Continued love or passion for something or someone.

Bajulate: To take the burden of; bear the burden.

Boscaresque: A scenic woodland; picturesque.

Buccellation: The art of making small morsels.

Coakatively: Artificially.

Ecstasiate: To enter an ecstatic level.

Exipotic: A purgatorial process.

Fallaciloquence: A pretentious speech.

Foppotee: A simpleton.

Gnathonize: To flatter someone.

Graviloquence: A sad or grave speech.

Homerkin: An outdated measure for beer.

Ictuate: To put stress on; to emphasize.Jobler: Someone who does petty jobs.

Kexy: Dry and brittle.

Lignicide: An ancient word for woodcutter.

Misqueme: To offend or displease.

Nepheliad: A sky nymph.

Obstrigillate: To resist; refuse; protest.

Phalerate: Decorated; made beautiful.

Quadrimular: A phenomenon lasting for four years.

Rhodologist: A person who studies and classifies roses.

Sacricolist: A devoted worshiper.

Tecnolatry: Act of idolizing children.

Vacivity: Hollow or emptiness.

Funny Interesting Words

How could a funny language not have a list of some interesting words. Here are some amusingly funny

words.

Conundrum: A difficult problem or a situation.

Oxymoron: Contradictory terms.

Hubris: Overbearing pride.

Caveat: A warning; notice.

Kvetch: Complain constantly.Capricious: Acting on whims; impulsive.

Facetious: Humorous; jocular.

Loquacious: Talkative; trivial conversation.

Anomaly: Abnormal; irregular.

Sycophant: A person who tries to gain an advantage by pleasing someone.

Why 'Y' Makes Interesting Words

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The letter 'Y' is regarded as both a consonant and as vowel, depending on the pronunciation of the word.

Here's a list of words wherein the letter plays the role of only a vowel. It is the interchangeable role of the

letter that makes these words interesting.

By: Means of; with the help of; used while specifying dimensions.

Dry: The act of removing moisture.

Fly: Travel or move through air.

Fry: Cook in a hot pan with oil.

Gypsy: A nomad living the tribal way.

Hymn: A song of praise for the Lord.

Lymph: A bodily fluid.

Lynch: To kill or hurt without legal sanction.

Lynx: A wild cat with a short tail.

Myth: A baseless story.

My: Possessive pronoun used to show belonging of an object.

Ply: Give the desired or needed.

Pygmy: A small (height) person.

Pyx: A chest in which coins are kept.Rhythm: A musical beat with regular intervals.

Shy: Short of; lacking confidence.

Sky: The outer space, appears blue in color when viewed from the earth's surface.

Spry: Moving swiftly.

Spy: To watch secretly.

Sylph: A graceful and slender young woman.

Try: Attempt.

Tryst: Date with opposite gender.

Wry: Sarcastic in a humorous way.

Longest Interesting Words

The English language has a list of longest words that make them a part of this list. A list of interesting

especially the longest interesting words.

Floccinaucinihilipilification: To describe something worthless.

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis: According to Oxford English Dictionary, a factitious

word alleged to mean 'a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust, causing

inflammation in the lungs.'

Honorificabilitudinitatibus: This long word was coined by Shakespeare which means 'the state of being

able to achieve honors'.

Antidisestablishmentarianism: This is the longest non-coined and non-technical English word which

was found in 19th to oppose the 'disestablishment of the Church of England as the state church ofEngland'.