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|[https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/nudiustertian nudiustertian]||the day before yesterday | |[https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/nudiustertian nudiustertian]||the day before yesterday | ||
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|[https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/pernickety pernickety]||placing too much emphasis on trivial or minor details; fussy. ''Somewhat pleasingly, Americans use the spelling "persnickety"'' | |[https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/pernickety pernickety]||placing too much emphasis on trivial or minor details; fussy. ''Somewhat pleasingly, Americans use the spelling "persnickety"'' | ||
Revision as of 12:26, 24 August 2020
Interesting words
Words to smuggle into conversations...
| bumbershoot | an umbrella |
| neologism | a newly coined word or expression |
| nudiustertian | the day before yesterday |
| pauciloquent | uses few words in a speech |
| pernickety | placing too much emphasis on trivial or minor details; fussy. Somewhat pleasingly, Americans use the spelling "persnickety" |
| quorum | the smallest number of people needed to be present at a meeting before it can officially begin and before official decisions can be taken |
| vicissitudes | alternation between opposite or contrasting things |
