Obambulate is a real word
One of my former English teachers noted that today's word-of-the-day calendar offering was "obambulate." Naturally, I had to google something so homonymic to the democratic presidential nominee, which led me to a list of obscure words. So many of them reminded me of election politics, so I had to share. My absolute favorites are highlighted.
- acyrology: poor choice of words, poor diction
- bloviate: to orate verbosely and windily
- cynosure: a person or thing that is a center of attention
- epuration: Purification, especially removal of officials or politicians believed to be disloyal; purge.
- eristic: enjoying argument for its own sake
- erotesis: a rhetorical question
- extradictionary: consisting in deeds, not words
- hypophora: the posing of questions to oneself and the answering of them, or a reasoning aloud
- logodaedalus: one who is cunning in the use of words
- logodaedaly: the ability to coin new words, verbal legerdemain
- logomachy: a dispute about words and their meanings; a quibbling over semantics that gets away from the subject
- logomonomania: loquacity in manic proportions
- logorrhea: incoherent or excessible babble
- longiloquence: long-windedness
- mumpsimus: 1. Adherence to or persistence in an erroneous use of language, memorization, practice, belief, etc., out of habit or obstinacy. 2. A person who persists in a mistaken expression or practice.
- obambulate: to walk around or wander
- obganiate: to irritate with reiteration
- oofle: the attempt to find the name of a person whose name you should know but cannot remember
- paralogize: to draw illogical conclusions from a set of facts
- paramnesia: A distortion of memory in which fact and fantasy are confused.
- reductive fallacy: the fallacy of reducing a complex issue or problem to one oversimple thing or aspect
- sciolism: superficial show of knowledge
- slurvian: American language marked by carelessly slurred pronunciations such as "gimme", "c'mon", and "d'ju"
- tacenda: things better left unsaid
- tintiddle: a witty retort you wish you had made but thought of too late
- tranont: to shift one's position, especially rapidly and stealthily
- unasinous: equally stupid
- verbigeration: the habit of frequently repeating favorite words or phrases


2 Comments:
I realize that I've had many tintiddles! Normally, I just call them witty retorts I wish I had made but thought of too late...but giving it one word is such a time saver! :-)
-Boo
tintiddle is my middle name- but some may argue that blovate is more accurate
middle sis
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