Words are overrated.

Epeolatry: The worship of words.

One that seems to be new to a lot of people: sardonic or sardonism. It is kind of like sarcasm or facetiousness, but darker. The definition is grimfully mocking.

“I was just being sarcastic. Don’t be so defensive and serious.”

“I was being sardonic. Did you take offense to that? Good.”

Callipygian - to have a nice ass.

I recently learned ‘bucolic’ - relating to or typical of rural life. It’s based on the greek word for shepherd.

I read it in a review of the fantastic BBC show ‘The Derectorists’ and found it very fitting.

Palimpsest - it’s like a document that’s been re-used but still shows some of the previous words underneath. Or a bit like a whiteboard that has ‘burnt-in’ marker showing after being erased.

I hate saying it, it feels bad in my mouth. Anthropomorphize is kind of fun though.

I just thought of one that I’ve never had cause to use in conversation: “philomot,” meaning “having the color of a dead leaf.”

Encumbered, obsequious, defenestration, solastalgia

• syzygy
• diurnal
• gnathion

Discombobulated!

Yesterday I was trying to think of the difference between audacious and bodacious and I could really use some help with that.

sesquipedalian:
• a foot and a half
• a really long word
• referring to a user of really long words

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Contemporaneously. (At precisely the same time).