Inaniloquent

Definition: Speaking foolishly, or saying silly things.

Pronuciation: In-ani-lo-que-ent

Origin: from Latin inanis empty, and loquen(t-)s, present participle of loqui, speak, talk.

Used in a sentance: Shelly sometimes is inaniloquent.

GRAPHOLAGNIA

Grapholagnia

Pronunciation: graph-ol-ag-ni-a.

Definition: The urge to stare at obsene pictures.

Use in a sentence: Sometimes i get a feeling of grapholagnia.

NELIPOT

Nelipot

Pronunciation: nel-i-pot.

Definition: A person who walks without shoes.

Use in a sentence: Jesus was a nelipot.

GARGALESIS

Gargalesis

Pronunciation: gar-gal-es-is.

Definition: To be heavily tickled.

Use in a sentence: I hate when someone gargalesis's me.

GAMBRINOUS

Gambrinous

Pronunciation: gam-brin-ous

Definition: Being full of beer.

Use in a sentence: Most college students are planning on being very gambrinous after their exams.

DIPPOLDISM

Dippoldism

Pronunciation: dipp-ol-dism.

Definition: The act of beating or whipping school children.

Use in a sentence: Mrs. Gregg was a very bad school teacher who always used dippoldism.

Dactylonomy

Definition: Counting using one's fingers

Pronunciation: dacty-lon-no-me

Origin: Greek

Used in a sentence: Dactylonomy: The real man's calculator!

Whimsical

Pronunciation: whim-si-cal

Definition : 1. Determined by, arising from, or marked by whim or caprice.
2. Erratic in behavior or degree of unpredictability.

Used in sentence: What a whimsical party.

Cantankerous

Definition: Difficult or irritating to deal with

Pronounced: Can·tan·ker·ous

Origin: circa 1772

Used in a sentence: The cantankerous old man slammed the door in the face of the postman.

heres a very cantankerous puppet

IGNIMBRITE

Pronounced: " ig-nimm-bright"

What the hell does it mean?

Ignimbrite is a hot mixture of particles and gases that flows rapidly from a volcano when an eruption occurs. It is made of a poor mixture of volcanic ash. This ash is composed of glass particles and crystal fragments.

The ignimbrite particles can be blown high into the earths atmosphere, travelling for kilometers before falling to the ground.

History/Origin?

Back in 1932 a young rastafarian wanted to experience first-hand what smoking volcanic ash could do to someone. The ash had no effect on him and no damage was done to his internal organs. He later used his latin speaking skills to develope the word 'Ignimbrite'.

Examples of everyday use in conversation:

Child: "Daddy, how much longer do we have to sleep in this airport?"

Father: "Oh just until that ignimbrite stuff clears from the skies honey."

ABECEDARIAN

Abecedarian

Pronunciation: ab-ec-ed-ar-i-an

Definition: A person whi is learning the alphabet.

Use in a sentence: John is an abecedarian.

Abacinate

Definition: To blind someone by putting a hot copper basin near their eyes.

Pronuciation: A-back-sin-ate

Used in a sentance: If you keep annoying me, I'm going to have to abacinate you!!

Hedonism

Definition: Pursuit of or devotion to pleasure, especially to the pleasures of the senses.

Pronounced: He·do·nism

Origin: Circa 1856

Used in a sentence:
John was known as a hedonist by his active pursuit of every pleasurable experience that life could bring.

Heres a vid that shows hedonism

Capernoited

Definition: To be slightly intoxicated or tipsy

Pronunciation: cap-er-noy-ted

Origin: Scotland, around 1719.

Used in sentence: Last night, I wasn't quite inebriated, but I was definatiely more than capernoited, to the extent where I couldn't quite say capernoited.

Drumble

Definition: 1. To be sluggish or lazy; to be confused.
2. To mumble in speaking.

Pronunciation: drum-bil

Origin: first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598.

Used in sentence: People are becoming very drumble.

schadenfreude

Pronounced: Scha·den·freu·de.

Definition: Satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune.

Origin: Circa 1890

Used in a sentence: The evil prankster was driven by by his schadenfreude.

Heres a vid with a song from Avenue Q about schadenfreude

Zebrule

Definition: hybrid offspring of male zebra and female horse.

Pronunciation: Zeb-rule

Origin: 19th Century

Used in a sentence: Marty is a zebra, and Black Beauty is a horse, they are both guys, but if Black Beauty was a chick, and they had babies, it would totally be a zebrule! =].

Cantankerous

Definition: 1.Ill-tempered and quarrelsome; disagreeable.
2.Difficult to handle .

Pronunciation: can-tan-ker-us

Origin: 1765-75

Used in sentence: The cantankerous monkey always made a mess when the people wouldn't feed him.

Ranarium

Pronunciation: Ran-ar-i-um

Definition: A frog farm

Used in a sentence: Let's go check out some frogs at our local ranarium! =]

Spelunking

Pronounced: Spe-lunk-ing.

Definition: The hobby or practice of exploring caves.

Origin: Circa 1890

Used in a sentence: We're going spelunking this weekend.

Heres a vid with some spelunking

Abstruse

Definition: 1. Hard to understand; recondite; esoteric.
2. Obsolete; secret; hidden.

Pronunciation: ab-stroos

Origin/History: c. 1600, from L. abstrusus, pp. of abstrudere "conceal", lit. "to thrust away", from ab- "away" + trudere " thrust, push"

Used in sentence: "I find this situation most abstruse".

Reintarnation

Definition: coming back to life as a hillbilly, being reincarnated as white trash.
Pronounced: re-in-tar-nation.
History: reintarnation is a recent word and was made up in america this century.
Examples: "I believe in reintarnation!", " I think when I die I will be reintarnated! Yeehaw!"

SPOONING

Definition: spooning- is when two people lie on their sides and face in the same direction whilst being close to oneanother in a hugging position. Doesnt have to be in a sexual way!!



Spooning is like cuddling with a teddy bear, only the bear is alive!



Used in a sentence: Everyone loves a good spooning followed by a good forking!

Fandango

Pronounced: Fan-dan-go

Definition:
(1) A lively Spanish dance of Cuban origin, with music varying from slow to quick 3/4 time.
(2) A foolish act.

Origin: Circa 17th century

Used in a sentence: They were masters at dancing the fandango.

here's a vid of people doin some foolish acts i.e fandango

Quixotic

Definition: 1. resembling or befitting Don Quixote. 2. extravagantly romantic or chivalrous; visionary, impractical or impracticable. 3. impulsive and often rashly unpredictable.

Pronounced: kwik-sot-ik

History/Origin: "extravagantly chivalrous," 1791, from Don Quixote, romantic, impractical hero of Cervantes' satirical novel "Don Quixote de la Mancha" (1605). His name lit. means "thigh," also "a cuisse" (a piece of armor for the thigh), in Mod.Sp. quijote, from L. coxa "hip."

Used in sentence: The lovely damsel dumped her sickeningly quixotic wooer and ran off with the court jester.

Here's a vid to help say it with a little cartoon aswel :) Enjoy!!

Trifolium Repens

Pronounced: "Try-foal-e-um, repp-enz"

What the hell does it mean?
Trifolium repens means 'white clover'. It grows all over Europe and in parts of North America, West Asia and North Africa.

It is the type of plant in which SHAMROCKS are formed from!

History/ Origin?
Well long ago, when he wasn't beating snakes with a stick, St Patrick used the clover/ shamrock leaves from this plant to illustrate the doctrine of the trinity! In Victorian times, the plant and it's shamrocks were used for their medical properties to treat the ill.

Examples of everyday use in conversation:
"The doctor said i cant drink today so i decided to go find me a four- leaf clover! Gonna need a field rich in Trifolium Repens though!"

HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY EVERYBODY!

Bondoggle

Definition: An unnecessary or wasteful project or activity, A braided leather cord worn as a decoration especially by Boy Scouts, A cord of braided leather, fabric, or plastic strips made by a child as a project to keep busy.

History: It was a word invented by Robert H. Link (scoutmaster) who died in 1957.

Examples: "the scouts are bomdoggling over their", "i just love my bondoggle".

Splendiferous

Pronounced: Splen·dif·er·ous

Definition: Magnificent; very impressive; splendid

Origin: Circa 1425–75

Used in a sentence: Yesterday was a splendiferous day

here's what happens when you have animal costumes, a camera and a lot of free time

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

Definition: lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust.

Pronunciation: Noo-muh-noh-uhl-tra-mi-kro-skop-ik-sil-i-koh-vol-kan-noh-koh-nee-oh-sis.

Used in a sentence: "Mike, that's a mighty bought of pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis you've got there!"

Little interesting fact, Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest word ever to appear in an English dictionary. =]

Apodyopsis

Definition: The act of mentally undressing someone.

Used in sentence: Mark practices apodyopsis while he's working at the old folks home.

Pronunciation: A-po-de-op-sis

And a vid to help with the pronunciation :) Although the pic has no relevance just thought it was funny and a little scary too :)

Hieroglyphic

Definition: writing using symbols or pictures rather than words, difficult to read or decipher.

Pronunciation: hi·er·o·glyph·i·cal

History: it is known as "sacred picture writing". This comes from "hiero" meaning "holy" and "glyphe" meaning "carving".

Examples: "Hieroglyphics are an ancient form of Egyption script", "I cant read this text, its mad hieroglyphic" "Use the image to spell your name in hieroglyphics!"

Jollification

Pronounced: Jollification

Definition: Lively celebration with others; merrymaking

Origin: Jollification is from jolly (from Old French joli, jolif, "joyful, merry") + Latin -ficare, combining form of facere, "to make." Circa 1800

Used in a sentence: This weekend there will be Jollification.

Here is an example of Jollification or merrymaking

Noctambulism

Definition: walking by a person who is asleep.

Pronounced: noc-tam-bu-lism

Origin: 1855-60

Adultery

Definition: to make impure by adding wrong or bogus ingredients. Aso a term for infidelity or extremarital sex.

History: The term does not come from the english "adult" but from the late-latin "to alter" meaning to "corrupt"

Examples: "adultery is seen as morally and religiously wrong" "i'll say nothing about his adultery boys!"

possimpible

Pronounced: poss-imp-ible

Definition: the place where the possible and the impossible meet

Origin: how i met you mother season 4 episode 14 circa 2009

Used in a sentence: Nothing, and everything, is possimpible.

here's a vid with barney explaining possimpible

Automatonophobia

Pronounced: oto-mat-on-a-fo-be-a



Definition: Fear of ventriloquist's dummies, animatronic creatures, wax statues - anything that falsely represents a sentient being.

Origin: No identifiable origin.

Used in a sentence: 'Hey I got tickets to Marc Rubben!' 'But I have Automatonophobia!'

Ok I'm aware that the dummy in this video isn't exactly 'life like' but it's so funny I had to use it!

Enjoy!! :)

FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION

Pronounced: "flock-suh-naw-suh-nih-hil-uh-pil-uh-fi-kay-shun"

What the hell does it mean?
Floccinaucinihilipilification is the estimation of something as valueless.

History/ Origin?
Between 1735 - 1745 a very pessimistic tutor at Elton College in England spent most of his miserable days in denial of the existence of the objects in life that were of worth and value to most people. Basically he took most things for granted. Anyone with an attitude such as this is known as a 'floccinaucinihilipilifilicat'.

Examples of everyday use in conversation:
"That floccinaucinihilipilification is a terrible thing!Sure didn't Peter only go and get himself arrested last Sunday when he stood up in the middle of mass preaching against the ideas of the 'Trocaire' charity organization!"

Supernova

Definition: a star that explodes and becomes extremely luminous in the process. (BANG!!)an extremely bright, short-lived object that emits vast amounts of energy.
Supernova is also a term artists use to describe their own influence on music.
History: 1925-30 Super + Nova.

Examples: "And i feel like taking off, let me be your supernova"

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia-

Pronounced: Hippo-poto-mons-stro-ses-quipped-alio-phobia
Definition: Ironically, the fear of long words

Example: John suffers from Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia Treatment:

If you suffer from this although if you do you've prob stopped reading at this stage, but there are ways to help which are:

Behavior therapy, anti-anxiety medication
Psychotherapy
Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT)
Behavioral therapy
Exposure therapy
Relaxation techniques - controlled breathing, visualisation
Medication
Medications to treat anxiety may be utilised for treatment of symptoms, but there are no studies that support the efficacy of medication in the treatment of specific phobias

There are heaps of vids about Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia on youtube but here's one of my favs

Abstemious

This word has all the vowels in it in alphabetical order.










Pronounced: ab-stee-mee-us

Definition: 1. Sparing or moderate in eating and drinking; temperate in diet.
2. Characterised by abstinence: an abstemious life.
3. Sparing: an abstemious diet.

Origin: 1615-25

Used in sentence: He maintains his weight on an abstemious diet.

PYRRHULOXIA

Pronounced: "pir-uh-lok-see-uh"

What the hell does it mean?
Pyrrhuloxia is a medium-sized American bird, similar to the Northern Cardinal or the Vermilian Cardinal. It roams through Mexico and parts of the southern states of America such as Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. It's gray in color and has a red breast.

History/ Origin?
Well its all Greek to me, but they developed the name through describing it's colour (πυρρος = pyrrhos = reddish or orange) and the shape of its bill (λοξος = loxos = oblique, hence crossbill).

Examples of everyday use in conversation:
Michael: "Yo!Tommy!, you coming to that fancy dress thing tonight? I hear theres gonna be a lot of savage birds there!". Tommy: "Okay, cool! I'll come dressed as a Pyrrhuloxia!".

Dale:"Aw darn it! Maggie, the cats just swallowed another Pyrrhuloxia!. Maggie: "What!, that's the sixth one today!!!".

Mediocre

Definition: moderate to inferior in quality. Average: lacking exceptional quality or ability.

History: "Mediocre" originated when a young monk who was excused from performing a portion of a monk's duties.

Examples: " this fried chicken is mediocre " " that song is a mediocre one " " does that guys tattoo really say mediocre?? crazy! "

Pulchritudinous

Pronounced: Pul·chri·tu·di·nous

Definition: Characterized by or having great physical beauty and appeal.

Origin: Early 15th century from the latin word pulchritudo which means beauty.

Example: She was the most pulchritudinous woman i had ever seen.

Here's an awesome vid invoving over 10,000 domino's

Quagmire

Pronounced: kwag-mire

Definition: 1. Land with a soft muddy surface.

2. A difficult or precarious situation; predicament.

Also for you Family Guy fans out there it has a very different meaning as it is the name of one of the characters in the show :)

Origin: The word dates back to 1570-80.

Used in sentence: I was driving along late for a meeting and there was a tree blocking the main road this put me in a quagmire.


Here's a fun vid for you I'm sure you'll like :)

WINEBIBBER

Pronounced: "wine-bib-ber"

What the hell does it mean?
Winebibber is the name given to a person that drinks an unmerciful amount of wine.

History/ Origin?
Back in 1535 when people discovered the delights of a good night out on the wine binge, those that were locked drunk were labeled as "drunkard". "Winebibber" later developed from this word.

Examples of everyday use in conversation:
"I knew Emily was always putting herself in hospital on purpose, just to be fed the wonderful grapes, but i had no idea she liked wine this much! She's a real winebibber that girl!"

Grearious (James)

Gregarious

Definition: to associate with others of ones kind, to bo sociable, an indication of liking or companionship or, of a or relating to a social group.

history: originated in 1668, Latin gregarius of a flock or herd, from greg-, grex flock, herd.

Examples: "in my school i am considered very gregorious", "are you coming to our gregorious event?"

Legendary

Pronounced: Leg-gen-dar-y

Definition:
1: Of or relating legend
2: Celebrated or described in legend or legends
3: Very famous or notorious

Origin: It appeared in the english language circa 1340.

Examples: That concert last night was legendary!

It is used very often by Barney Stinson from how i met your mother to describe everything good.

Asinine

I think this picture will help with the pronunciation

Pronounced: as-e-nine

Definition: 1. extremely or utterly foolish
2. of, relating to, resembling an ass

Used in sentence: I did not expect such an asinine comment such as "I have to watch cyclists rather than the scenery".

Origin: The words dates back to the 15th Century

Phlogiston

Pronounced: "flog-is-tonne"

What the hell does it mean?
Well its funny that you mentioned the word 'Hell' in your question!

Phlogiston is the invisible, imaginary chemical that was believed to be released when something was burning and there's plenty of burnings going on in the underworld!


History/ Origin?
Well back in 1700s (good times!), before oxygen was discovered and television existed, some nut case suffering from severe boredom set out to name the cause of combustion and hence the word 'Phlogiston' was born. Simple words like 'grass', ' 'sky' and 'cloud' were born from similar situations.

Examples of everyday use in conversation:
(sitting by the bonfire at Halloween)- "wow, I'm not even drunk but can any of you guys see the Phlogiston in the air?".

STILL CONFUSED? Then check out the dude in the video below.

REVEL

Revel (rev′əl):

intransitive verb reveled -·eled or revelled -·elled, reveling -·el·ing or revelling -·el·ling
1. to make merry; be noisily festive
2. to take much pleasure; delight (in) to revel in one's freedom

Noun

1. boisterous festivity; merrymaking; revelry
2. an occasion of merrymaking or boisterous festivity; celebration
Etymology: ME < MFr < the v.
Related Forms:
reveler rev′·eler noun or reveller rev′·el·ler



Revel - use in sentences
Converse of object
hold: William Thomas maintains that the revel held in St. Andrews Major was ' no more than 50 yrs making ' .
Modifying Another Word
all: We were all reveling in the stunning beauty of the scenery and keeping a wary eye on the army in front of us.
Adjective modifier
most: Most zeros revel in asset cover high enough to satisfy even the most nervous investor.
high: High revel was held at night to celebrate the triennial achievement.
good: Good photographers revel in making you comfortable before their camera.
Modifying Another Word
positively: However, some people positively revel in the excitement of last-minute arrangements.
just: Or just revel in re-runs of old eighties classics.
simply: If you love reading you will simply revel in Paul Jennings ' sheer enthusiasm for books and reading.
Noun used with modifier
I: The sights and sounds of the world fill my senses and I revel in the sensation of the friendly breeze which strokes my skin.
film: Green's characters are thinkers and the film revels in charting the intricacies of their mental and emotional development.
child: The visits are always great fun and the children revel in the rugby ethos of fun, skills and competition.
Preposition: in
glory: A multitude of great space battles were both won and lost but few survived to revel in any glory.
joy: Who, more than a surfer, revels in the unique joy of bodily incarnation?
excitement: A true surfers ' paradise where you can revel in the excitement of its thunderous surf or simply relax under clear blue skies.
beauty: I am a country lover, I live here, love the wildlife, revel in te beauty.

The word usage examples above have been gathered from various sources to reflect current and historical usage. They do not represent the opinions of YourDictionary.com.

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Revel synonyms :

Revel

Noun:

carousal, frolic, festivity; see celebration 2, entertainment 1.
revel

Verb:

1. To make merry
frolic, carouse, rejoice, party; see celebrate 3, play 1.
2. To take pleasure; used with in
indulge, delight, relish, luxuriate in; see enjoy 1, like 1.

Revel quotes:

"And now was acknowledged the presence of the Red Death. He had come like a thief in the night. And one by one dropped the revellers in the blood-bedecked halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall".

-Poe, EdgarAllan 'The Masque of the Red Death', in the Gentleman's Magazine, May.

Muse (James)

Muse

History: 1350–1400;Muse comes from Greek mytholigy, it is any of the 9 daughters of zeus and mnenosyne; the protector of art and science.

Definition: A guiding spirit, a source of inspiration or a sort of good look charm. Muse is also the name of a major rock band.

Examples: "you are my muse", "I need my laptop, its my muse" or "hey how about that band muse?!"