Pick a word that many of us might not know, preferably one that you learned recently.
red·o·lent adjective \-lənt
: having a strong smell : full of a fragrance or odor
: causing thoughts or memories of somethingthe coders of you will know it, but - concatenate - to link together in a chain or series also fun: - brachiate - the movement of certain apes by which they swing from branch to branch Also, from wasoxygen , one of my favorite askhubskis: sosumi - when I had an Okcupid profile, there's a section called "Six things you can't live without" and I added my sosumis under that header (with definition & link). Some of my sosumis are chocolate and coffee.
Carter: Mysterious word that shows up in bizarre places in my poorly-translated motorcycle shop manual, eg: - "This tool is used to install the dry clutch carter" - "Lubrication system: Forced, with humid carter" - "Pinion carter upper fixing screw, M6 thread, 10 n/m fastening torque" - "Rotate the phonic wheel clockwise by acting on the nut E, bringing the PMS aligned with the carter reference F" - "Half-carter closing fastening torques" - "REMOTE CONTROL SWITCH : Placed on the left side of the bike near the pinion carter" I have no fucking idea what it means. In some places it's a fairing. In others it's a dowel. In others it's a fillet. "Forced with humid carter" should mean "pressurized wet sump" but I am utterly gobsmacked as to how to get from Point (A) to Point (B).
Whanau, pronounced (roughly) "fa-now". The Maori word for extended family, this word has been adopted by almost all NZ, Maori or not. A handy one to have.
Intertwingle Intertwingularity is a term coined by Ted Nelson to express the complexity of interrelations in human knowledge.Hierarchical and sequential structures, especially popular since Gutenberg, are usually forced and artificial. Intertwingularity is not generally acknowledged—people keep pretending they can make things hierarchical, categorizable and sequential when they can't.
I was with someone who used the word in a sentence today. Remembered the word, forgot the sentence.
Most recent English word I had to look up was pejorative, meaning "a word or grammatical form of expression that expresses contempt, criticism, hostility, disregard and/or disrespect". I also learned about defenestration, which is the act of throwing something / someone out of the window. Autodefenestration is throwing yourself out of the window.
anathema I ran across this word while reading the What is a Woman? article. I was surprised to see how much historical background the word had within different Religions. I'm not sure if that particular context of the word fit well in the article but cool nonetheless!
truc·u·lent
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adjective
eager or quick to argue or fight; aggressively defiant. As in, "Bitches be truculent"
Recently found out that excelsior can be used to refer to wood shavings used to package fragile deliveries or make things spongey. Apparently it was originally a trademarked name for selling the stuff, which is really the only legitimate reason I can think of for calling something as mundane as chaff something as cool as EXCELSIOR.
Excelsior, you fathead! - if this is the article I remember it to be it's very worth while. - it is the article - i shall share it now
한 (han). The Wikipedia article quotes Ko Eun saying "We Koreans were born from the womb of Han and brought up in the womb of Han." It's a concept you'll undoubtedly come across if you're interested in Korean literature and history. Han is sorrow caused by heavy suffering, injustice or persecution, a dull lingering ache in the soul. It is a blend of lifelong sorrow and resentment, neither more powerful than the other. Han is imbued with resignation, bitter acceptance and a grim determination to wait until vengeance can at last be achieved. Han is passive. It yearns for vengeance, but does not seek it. Han is held close to the heart, hoping and patient but never aggressive. It becomes part of the blood and breath of a person. There is a sense of lamentation and even of reproach toward the destiny that led to such misery. (Wikipedia)Han is frequently translated as sorrow, spite, rancor, regret, resentment or grief, among many other attempts to explain a concept that has no English equivalent. Han is an inherent characteristic of the Korean character and as such finds expression, implied or explicit, in nearly every aspect of Korean life and culture.
Ameliorate - to make better Simple, yet effective in creating a better vocabulary.
Fluffiest. (I discovered this morning that this isn't a word. But it's great) Well. It's sort of a half word. There are definitions in online dictionaries, but Apple doesn't recognize it and I don't think it's in a real dictionary. 
I think I was going to say something about this comment but I thought about it too hard and now fluffiest just sounds like a random collection of weird sounds and I've forgotten everything I was thinking. E: Just checked my dad's OED and you're right, fluffiest isn't there. But I came across another fun word - fluffily, meaning vaguely or indecisively.
I know exactly what you are talking about! That phenomenon is one of the more strange things our brain does. I think there was a name for it and some interesting factoids on Wikipedia but I can't recall the name right now.
Are you sure it's not a real word? http://news.sciencemag.org/plants-animals/2014/06/vampire-squirrel-has-worlds-fluffiest-tail