Perspicacity. Not new to me but I never use it and was surprised to hear Ward Cleaver use it in a "Leave It To Beaver" episode today.
[mutters]...the hell did I walk into? But in another universe, I'll 'ship that. "New" word (not completely new, but a good one I'd forgotten): sonorous: (adjective) Giving sound when struck. High-sounding. edited to add the part of speech.
A Facebook friend who is obsessed with autism used the word 'neurodiversity' today. I hadn't seen it before and it kind of seems like a reach.
Seems like your Facebook friend is suffering from some IQ-diversity. This is the treatable kind though. ;^)
Courtesy of an Agatha Christie novel, I learnt the word Sardonic. Meaning: Grimly mocking, or cynical.
Star-crossed. Of course star-crossed isn't a new word to me. I needed a word that meant something more than bad luck, but didn't want to use ill-fated or luckless. A quick search had me perusing Shakespeare and there I found 'star-crossed'. Any day you get to write rumpled, star-crossed buccaneer in a sentence, is a good day indeed! From under a wide-brimmed hat he appraised her with eyes the color of rum; he stood tall and at ease, with a bushy beard and mustache and long, glossy black tresses that fell just so. He wore a foppish frock coat and wine-colored trousers tucked into three-buckle boots—rather dashing our Captain Baptiste. In a rumpled, star-crossed buccaneer kind of way, Adeline thought. Yet there must be something wrong with his luck, or why else would he settle for a humble river when the romance of the sea seems more to his calling?
So true! Had I encountered it in the wild and not read the description, I'd swear pulchritude meant vomit or the remains of roadkill or something.
@Iain Aschendale That's a wonderful list lol. Gonna' save that. But thou still an artless, hell-hated lout. moxie: 1. energy, pep 2. courage, determination 3. force of character, or nerve ^@Harmonices So, the opposite of your "pusillanimous". It also doesn't seem quite interchangeable with "pugnacious". When I think moxie I think youth; some bubble-gum-chewing, preppy girl who's just a little overconfident. For me, "pugnacious" has a connotation that's less attractive and more violently/physically aggressive. Like a pugilist, or a pug. Maybe it's just me, but something about moxie keeps me from using it to describe a man. Not the definition but just the spelling, sound, and aesthetic of the word. An ironically ugly word, haha.
Hygge (Hue-guh) which sounds like a word trolls, as in, fantasy trolls, might use in their dictionary. I learned it from a Dane, so I'll go ahead an assume its purely a Danish thing. It means something something cozy moments by yourself or with friends or family something something.
Didn't know a lot of these words. Just familiar with the basics from playing video games; a lot of parts get folded into one for simplicity.
I learned these words: - p2x - Soletair - Power-to-x - Qvidja Kraft - Mädättämö I will not tell what is going on, because you would not believe me if I told. I did know this word: - Fisher-Tropsch. So I did not need to learn it today.
