Little known words

Thoreau

Thoreau

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This is a thread, mainly for me to expand my vocabulary, where I would like for you more linguistically intelligent folk to provide little known words that we don't typically hear on a daily basis as well as their definitions.

So, have fun....:p
 
pandiculation: yawning and stretching

My son just learned this one. "oh look, Dad is pandiculating" Wha????
 
panniculus, that bulging pillow of fat you see on really fat people, usually under the stomach but can be anywhere, most grossly on the back of their neck.
 
Panglossian - Blindly or naively optimistic.
Tmesis - The phenomenon of inserting a word in the middle of another.
 
mandamus

usufruct

i simply adore the word - obfuscate

these terrms are, of course, googleable.

Finally - Sear Fealty
 
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Here are two that sound dirty, but aren't:

"Formicate" to swarm like ants.
Example The eighth graders are formicating in the playground!

"Macerate" to soften by soaking in water (or another liquid).
Example Mom! Billy has been in the bathroom for nearly an hour. I think he must be macerating in there.

There are also:

"Cunctation" delay; procratination.
"Vagile" able to move about or disperse in a given environment.
"Titivate" to decorate or improve the appearance of.
"Orogeny" the process of mountain formation.
"Invaginate" to sheathe something or enclose in something like a sheath.
"Vaginate" enclosed in a sheath. (An adjective.)
 
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Pandaemoni said:
Here are two that sound dirty, but aren't:

"Formicate" to swarm like ants.
Example The eighth graders are formicating in the playground!

"Macerate" to soften by soaking in water (or another liquid).
Example Mom! Billy has been in the bathroom for nearly an hour. I think he must be macerating in there.....
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don't forget masticate
I grabbed a popscicle and started to masticate.
 
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