Alation - The state of having wings; the position of wings on a creature.
Bombilate - To loudly hum or buzz continuously.
Crapehanger - A pessimist.
Defenestrate - To throw out of a window.
Exsibilation - The collective hisses of a disapproving audience.
Frangible - Easily broken.
Gloaming - The period between sunset and full night; dusk.
Hadeharia - The constant use of the word ‘hell’.
Imago - The ideal mental image of a person.
Jejune - Lacking interest or significance; dull or insipid; dry; empty.
Keister - The tool-kit of a burglar.
Labeorphily - The collection and study of beer bottle labels.
Muliebrity - Womanhood, female counterpart to virility.
Nescience - The lack of knowledge.
Ogee - Shaped like an S.
Palabra - A word, a talk.
Quidam - An unknown person.
Rabelaisian - Coarsely hilarious.
Selcouth - Rarely known, unusual, strange.
Tarantism - The irresistible urge to dance.
Unasinous - Characterized by equal stupidity.
Venefic - Acting by poisons, potions, or sorcery.
Whiskerine - A beard-growing contest.
Xylomancy - Divination by examining wood found in one’s path.
Ypsiliform - Shaped like an upsilon.
Zaftig - Having a full, rounded figure.
Unusual Words from A to Z
A word that can describe the feelings many of my friends.
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Sunday May 6th
A word that does not exist in the English language:
Ya’aburnee
Arabic – Both morbid and beautiful at once, this incantatory word means “You bury me,” a declaration of one’s hope that they’ll die before another person because of how difficult it would be to live without them.
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Wednesday April 25th
chrysalism
n. the amniotic tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm, listening to waves of rain pattering against the roof like an argument upstairs, whose muffled words are unintelligible but whose crackling release of built-up tension you understand perfectly.
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Wednesday April 25th
