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ITT: we teach eachother cool words 2017-04-30 08:16:26 Post No. 9447685
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everyone makes favorite word posts, but my favorite part of those threads is writing down all the cool words that i can find in them that i didn't know. so, itt: we teach each other cool words that we probably didn't know.
i'll start with a word i learned last thread. (i know all of you already know this because you are a lot smarter than everyone else)
hosanna - an expression of adoration, praise, or joy.
in hebrew and arabic (probably more semitic languages, i don't know the rest), on a verb, you attach NA to the end if WE are doing it, it is a pronoun attached to the end of a verb, essentially. in hebrew hosa means pray, so, in hebrew, this literally means "we pray". cool!
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ho - your mom
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>>9447685
How pretentious is it to use newly invented words that haven't even been accepted by any dictioary yet?
http://www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/page/3
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porco dio - a typical venetian expression of anger
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>>9447752
It'd be a lot less pretentious if it weren't German
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>>9447685
Aggravate - to make bad or angry.
hat: an item of clothing that is worn on the face.
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August : prestigious and well respected
Oh wait I'm not fucking Eric Weiner and didn't write the Geography of Bliss and use this word 50 times over without any other synonyms in an attempt to sound more intelligent than I really am, so it isn't my fave word.
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>>9447685
egg ---- hard shell filled with milk, planted by "chicken"s
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cat,: /kœt/ --- corporeal animal, host of the parasite toxoplasmosis, sometimes dried and used for writing on paper.
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Amanuensis literally a slave tasked as a scribe to take down whatever his master dictated. Modern usage is as a person employed as such.
Borges either quoting someone or he he himself wrote that Poets were slaves to God or the Holy Spirit.
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Avuncular:
Like an uncle
>After my sister had a son, I just feel so damn avuncular
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Pederast literally means pedophile who likes young boys
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>>9447685
Rapacious, aggressively hungry or greedy.
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>>9449717
*chickins
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