Words
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Interesting words
Words to smuggle into conversations...
| abstruse | Difficult to understand; obscure. | |
| agathokakological | Composed of good and evil | |
| bumbershoot | an umbrella | The project manager was hit over the head with a bumbershoot. |
| chutzpah | Extreme self confidence | |
| idempotent | Idempotence means that applying an operation once or applying it multiple times has the same effect. Examples: Multiplication by zero. No matter how many times you do it, the result is still zero | |
| eunoia | The goodwill a speaker generates with his audience | The shortest word in the English language that contains all five main vowels |
| jentacular | To do with a very early breakfast | |
| juxtapose | place or deal with close together for contrasting effect | |
| kakorrhaphiophobia | An abnormal fear of failure | |
| neologism | a newly coined word or expression | The project manager spouted neologistic shite. |
| nudiustertian | the day before yesterday | The project manager discovered a requirement that should have been delivered in the nudiustertian. |
| pauciloquent | uses few words in a speech | The project manager listened to the devleoper's pauciloquence with admiration and envy. |
| paucity | A lack of. | The project manager demonstrated paucity of intelect. |
| 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 |
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