Long and/or strange words that you rarely/never use in conversation, but one per post...

What the title says...

flabergasted

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accosted is one I generally use but don't hear too often. There's another word I use that my English professor didn't know but I can't think of it for the life of me now...

Speaking of teachers, one time I was in a High School history and we were playing Scattergories. The letter rolled was "T" and one of the categories was "infamous people". I wrote Tojo, and my teacher thought I was making it up, and I was forced to go on his computer and look it up for him. Sheesh, the perils of small-town teachers. Oops! Now I'm rambling...

coagulate ;)

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Lol at a history teacher never hearing of Tojo...

Scrumptious.

Well, the class he taught was American History from beginning to Reconstruction, but it still struck me as rather strange.

"Shenanigans"
Everyone in my school but me uses that word a lot.

eloquent

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A variation of the word magnanimous

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Ameliorate

Procrastinate. I said this word during a lesson and baffled most of my class.

Ninnyhammer it was a word in some vocab worksheet

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supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

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Chim Chim Cher-ee.

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Phantasmagorical

Exacerbate

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I used 'gender' in an insult towards someone, and the dumb shit stared at me like I was speaking in tongues.

But go on.

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After me some other guys abused that word at work, our boss started promoting the word "tomfoolery".

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Embellish

Robust.

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Serendipity

Which isn't all that strange, but you forget what it means.

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