Spice Up Your Vocabulary: Words Rarely Used

Sometimes daily vocabulary can be boring. Here are words, from A to Z, that can add a little flavor to your vocab.

A- Azure: (Adj.)- Of or like the color of a clear sky; sky blue

 

B- Bel-esprit: (N.)- A clever cultured person

 

C- Chanson: (N.)- A song

 

D- Drab: (Adj.)- lacking brightness or interest; drearily dull.

 

E- Errant: (Adj.)- traveling in search of adventure; erring or straying from the proper course of Standards

 

F- Flibbertigibbet: (N.)- A frivolous, flighty, or excessively talkative person

 

G- Gonzo: (Adj.)- [Slang] bizarre, unrestrained, extravagant.

H- Hark: (V.)- to listen, lend an ear, pay attention

 

I- Insidious: (Adj.)- Characterized by treachery or slyness; crafty; wily

 

J- Jink: (V.)- to move swiftly or with sudden turns, as in dodging a pursuer

 

K- Kaput: (Adj.)- ruined, destroyed, defeated

 

L- Lachrymose: (V.)- shedding tears

 

M- Maffick: (V.)- to celebrate exuberantly and boisterously

 

N- Nescience: (Adj.)- lack of knowledge; ignorance

 

O- Octothorpe: (N.)- another term for the pound sign (#)

 

P- Perduellion: (Adj.)- treason

 

Q- Quassation: (Adj.)- act of shaking or being shaken

 

R- Ratiocinate: (Adj.)- to reason or argue logically

 

S-Scurrilous: (Adj.)- Grossly indecent or vulgar.

 

T- Terran: (N.)- an inhabitant of the planet earth

 

U- Usurp: (V.)- To take possession of by force.

 

V- Virulently: (Adv.)- in a bitter or hostile way

 

W- Wallydrag: (Adj.)- feeble or worthless person or animal

 

X- Xenogenesis: (Adj.)- generation of offspring entirely unlike the parent

 

Y- Yagness: (Adj.)- hunger

Z- Zabernism: (Adj.)- misuse of military authority; bullying