I can't give examples of their use but for a while I made an effort to write down words I didn't understand to expand my vocabulary.

The list was phlegmatic, macaronic, capricious, benediction, antecedent, litany, capacious, mellifluous, assiduously.

>>4857
Oh hey, I do that too. My current list is:

Solipsistic, profligacy, capricious, proclivity, prediliction, coterminous, mercurial, avarice

>>4858
We both have capricious on our list. We're like brothers.

>>4856

The sainted Robert Rankin opined in one of his books that the word 'plinth', uttered from the lips of an attractive woman, was one of the most stirring things you could experience.

Give it a go. Watch the lips. It's thrilling.

>>4856

Meretricious and a Happy New Year to you!

(Eyethangyew, eyethangyew...)

>>4860

While he's right on that, he's totally guilty of massively encouraging the fedora and black cape brigade I can no longer stand the fellow.

>>4858
How can you not know what profligacy means...

>>4856

Maritorious. It's only got one recorded use: "Dames maritorious were ne'er meritorious".

>>4876

Thank you for a new word! In return, I offer 'mellifluous', 'sybaritic' and 'pleonasm'.

>>4877
Someone beat you to 'mellifluous', I'm afraid.

I see your 'pleonasm' and raise you a 'sesquipedalian'.

>>4878
How very loquacious of you.

>>4878

Well I can't help but say you don't appear to be hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobic.

>>4877

*Sybaritic.

And I'll give you poetomachia.

Susurrus
(Possibly the longest word containing only three distinct letters?)

>>4882
What's the longest word containing three indistinct letters?

>>4875
Well I do now! It just happened that I hadn't come across it before. Nobody is born with knowledge of any words, and I'm trying my best to learn as many as I can.

>>4883

I feel quite smart now.

Thanks .gs!

I would like to add verisimilitude.

Elegiac

>>4908

Execrable.

>>4910
Well fuck you too.

Velitation

Subitizing

>>4912
Numismatic

>>4919

>>4857
>>4858
docket, doughty, edifice, educable, egalitarian, elegiac, embrocation, enervate, enucleate, epexegetically, epigraph, erstwhile, eurasian, facile, factionalism, febrile, federalism, forbearance, fulsome

It's a very big list and I'm bored of typing.

>>5109

It's scruffy too

http://pastebin.com/3qMg1wqs

>>4856 I literally just read that in Lolita and wrote it down. Baader Meinhof effect

>>5109
>epexegetically
Do you seriously think you'll ever use this word?

>>5139

I doubt it but I've not even looked it up yet. That's a list of words I don't know, and words I understand when I hear them but can't use them without saying "is that the right word?" after. When that happens, I make a note to look it up and make sure it's the right word.

>>4857

I see your Mellifluous and raise you Melliferous, which I learnt just last week.
My favorite word for a number of years has been crepuscular.

Copacetic.

I heard when Malcolm X was in prison, he copied the entire dictionary by handwriting it. If we all did that, we'd never need these lists again (assuming we have good memories).

>>5143
That would rather depend on the dictionary, wouldn't it.

>>5144

We'll never need these lists again because we'll be dead and buried before getting to the letter D.

>>5143
Malcolm X must have had robust wrists.

>>5146

Are you calling Mr. X a wanker?

>>5147
Wanking over dirty words in a dictionary? Was he in prison for that long?

>>5148

Some words are just seductive little minxes.

>>5145

I won't even be able to tell you how dolorous and desolate this turn of events makes me feel.

>>5151

Your diatribe is deceptively duplicitous.