post the past 5 words you looked up

>>8170934
>tfw you learned what 'arch' meant from Always Sunny

>craythur
>samming

those are all I can remember

>>8170934
I like to look up words whose definitions I know already, for a couple reasons: to check how closely my internal definition matches the external, and to familiarize myself with the etymology, which often adds great depth to my understanding of the word.

One of the words I recently looked up was "moron"

the etymology is interesting: it comes from greek, and literally means "an adult having the mental age of an 8-12 yr old" if I remember correctly.

>>8170971
Idiot, moron, imbeciles were used at one point as for different intelligence ranges. Kids used them as insults, so retard became pc. Then it was used as an insult so something else is used. This is like late 19th cent.

They're all older than that, though, and moron is from gk. It meant dull. Oxygen meant sharp. So any oxymoron is itself etymologically an oxymoron.

>>8170971
This. I learned "malaria" stems from the Italian for mal (bad) and aria (air), because before we figured out it was transmitted via mosquitoes we assumed it was from air around swamps, which is understandable since mosquitoes like to chill around swamps.

verboten
entr'acte
insouciant
entourage
gentile

>>8171557
Also spastic

>>8170934
Plenitude
Chitinous
Arboreal
Sinecure

I'm not smart.

>>8172427

Non-anon, listen. Being smart isn't about how big your vocab is. It's about how you use it.

>>8170971
Word origin is a great way to boost your vocab. I recently looked to up gratified

Origin:MiddleFrenchgratifier,fromLatingratificaritoshowkindnessto,fromgratus+-ificari,passiveof-ificare-ify.

So almost any time you see grat- (grateful, gratitude, etc) you'll know what the word means. Another good example is ver-- which will mean something along the lines of truthful (very, verily, verify, veritable, veracity, etc)

sidereal

All nadsat words

That feel when i made that pepe.