15 January 2005

Vive Articulacy

Vive la langue! Vive vocabulaire!

Some of the words I've been able to employ on my Euro-jaunt, or heard used correctly sans trace of self-consciousness or pretension:

  • perfervid
  • disingenuous
  • plangent
  • epistemological
  • intractable
  • schism
  • detritus
  • evanescent
  • subfusc (OK, *not* yer average everyday bon mot)
  • apotheosis
  • zenith
  • expropriation
  • curtailing
  • trenchant
  • saurian
  • apophthegm
  • seemly
  • inured
  • torpor
  • antithesis
  • captious
  • tranche
  • Rosicrucian (ditto 'subfusc')
  • Catachresis
  • Osmotic
  • Antediluvian

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