22 Unusual Words in English That Will Upgrade Your Vocabulary
Janey Davies, B.A. (Hons)
June 1st, 2020.
As long as I can remember, I’ve had a love of the English language. I think it comes from my father. Whenever I came across unusual words, he would treat it as an adventure of sorts.
‘Look it up’, he’d say, all the while giving me clues as to the meaning of the word. Now, when I don’t know what a word means, I can hear my late father’s words in my ear and I’ll look up the word in question. Some of my favourite words include loquacious (talkative), pulchritude (physical beauty), and bucolic (pleasant countryside).
Here are some unusual words in English. You may already know what they mean, or, like me, you might be surprised.
22 Unusual Words That Will Upgrade Your Vocabulary
Acnestis
- No, this isn’t associated with spotty teenagers. In fact, we’ve all suffered from a spot of acnestis at some point in our lives. It’s the part of the back between the shoulders that you can’t...
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