wanted: new vocabulary words

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do you have any vocaluary words that you like cuz they are descriptive, unusual, or fun?

please share them with me.
I am wanting to expand my vocabulary for poetry to be submited to journals

a hobgoblin...
a mean spirit

glimflashy..
Fudo is glimflashy, with his fierce expression.


grinagog
a smiling fool, happy for no reason. i'm a grinagog

shib‧bo‧leth
an old idea, custom, or principle that you think is no longer important or suitable for modern times

Do they have to be in English? I know a lot of Scots (a dialect of English) words which sound fun and descriptive.

dreich - miserable, cold and wet weather (the ch is pronounced like loch)
drookit - dripping wet (if you had been caught in a heavy downpour)
sleekit - sly
gie it laldy - to do with great gusto

Good luck with the poetry. Robert Burns did quite well using Scots!

Defenestration: the act of throwing someone or something out of a window.

noctivagous

adj. wandering at night

Here's a fun word which describes a whole category of fun words:

Onomatopoeia - A word which sounds like what it describes. squirt, slap, grind

Some selections from my list:

Perfervid: Impassioned; ardent; fervent; vehement.

Fulminate: To explode with sudden violence or vehemence.

Lachrymose: Tearful; inclined to shed or cause many tears.

Lugubrious: Very sad or mournful, especially in a way that seems ridiculous.

Manducation: Chewing or mastication.

Deglutition: The act or process of swallowing.

Esculent: Something fit for food; edible.

Pusillanimous: Cowardly; lacking courage.

Nepheligenous: That which sends out clouds of smoke.

Latitudinarian: Favouring freedom of thought, especially in religion.

Alembicated: Purified or altered by distillation.

Salmagundi: Any mixture or medley, especially with food.

Facundious: Haughty; eloquent; full of words.

Gilravage: To feast, make merry, or party in a riotous manner.

Senescence: The process or condition of growing old.

Solipsism: The theory that the self can be aware of nothing but its own expressiveness and states, or that nothing exists or is real but the self.

Apodyterium: A dressing room (used before bathing).

Oppugn: To oppose with argument; criticise adversely.

Apopemptic: A farewell or leave-taking; valedictory; farewell address.

Girandole: A rotating display, as of fireworks.

Diffident: Restrained or reserved in manner.

Heres a whole dictionary of nadsat terms (how Alex from A Clockwork Orange talks)

http://www.soomka.com/nadsat.html

Gallimaufry is one of my favorites, and thus my username:

gal·li·mau·fry [gal-uh-maw-free]

–noun, plural -fries.
1. a hodgepodge; jumble; confused medley.
2. a ragout or hash.

Another one that comes to mind is ennui:

en·nui [ahn-wee, ahn-wee; Fr. ahn-nwee]

–noun
1. A feeling of utter weariness and discontent resulting from satiety or lack of interest; boredom: The endless lecture produced an unbearable ennui.

Great thread! I love this

Sesquipedalian.
Effulgent.

Antipenultimate: Third from last.

Pyrrhic victory-
A victory (usually in war) which causes more losses than the victory was worth.

pullulate
To exist abundantly; swarm; teem
or
To send forth sprouts, buds, etc.
or
To increase rapidly; multiply.

yarely
with quickness and agility

brindled
Gray/tawny

pangram
a sentence, verse, etc., that includes all the letters of the alphabet.