20 Words that make you sound smart

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  1. MTR

    MTR Well-Known Member

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    This must be BS or I am going to have to fake it........not ever used one of these words...LOL
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    20 Words That Make You Sound Smart - Netscape What's New

    Here are 20 of the 100 words that will make you sound smart:

    1. Acrimony
    (noun): rancor, spite, bitterness, hostility, ill will

    2. Dichotomy
    (noun): division into two contradictory or exclusive entities; something with two contradictory qualities

    3. Equivocate
    (verb): prevaricate, beat around the bush, vacillate

    4. Esoteric
    (adjective): obscure, mysterious, cryptic, arcane

    5. Euphemism
    (noun): inoffensive or agreeable substitute for an expression that may be distasteful or offensive

    6. Fastidious
    (adjective): fussy, finicky, particular

    7. Finagle
    (verb): obtain by indirect or convoluted means or through trickery

    8. Glib
    (adjective): persuasive, smooth, slick

    9. Harbinger
    (noun): herald, portent, omen, forerunner

    10. Idiosyncratic
    (adjective): individual, personal, distinctive, eccentric, peculiar

    11. Insidious
    (adjective): sinister, menacing

    12. Lurid
    (adjective): shocking, explicit, vivid, sensational

    13. Maudlin
    (adjective): overly sentimental, mawkish, soppy

    14. Non Sequitur
    (noun): a response unrelated to or not following logically from a previous statement

    15. Ostentatious
    (adjective): showy, flamboyant, pretentious, grandiose

    16. Ostracize
    (verb): exclude, shun, snub

    17. Panacea
    (noun): cure-all, magic potion, universal remedy

    18. Sycophant
    (noun): flatterer, toady

    19. Ubiquitous
    (adjective): everywhere, ever-present, omnipresent

    20. Zealous
    (adjective): enthusiastic, passionate, fervent, ardent, obsessive, fanatical, extreme

    --From the Editors at Netscape
     
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    The title of the article might have been missing one word to complete "smart..."
    Or I might need to update my vocabulary :oops:
     
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    Common.. I use most of these words on a daily basis. :D

    Who you callin a smart ass Eva :p
     
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    Ditto Leo

    I like 'recrudescence' - means a 'recurrence of'
     
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    A fellow sesquipedalian, excellent!

    A few more favorites are 'concomitantly', 'proclivity', 'noctivigant' and 'masticate'.

    For shiz and gigs I deliberately use "big" words in totally the wrong context and smile inwardly as the other person nods along without a clue :D
     
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    Really? I have used a few. Not sure they make me sound smart. Maybe pretentious? These are the words from the list that I use:

    Dichotomy | Esoteric | Euphemism | Fastidious | Harbinger | Idiosyncratic | Insidious | Ostentatious | Panacea | Sycophant | Ubiquitous

    I use Panacea, Sycophant, Ubiquitous at lot. I believe I have used panacea in a post on this forum ;)

    For Ostentatious I am more likely to use flamboyant. I think ostentatious is a bit archaic these days. And I don't use Zealous, I use overzealous :p

    For fun, I looked up if any of these words (or derivatives) have been used on this forum. These have been used:-
    - acrimonious
    - dichotomy
    - equivocal, equivocation
    - euphemism
    - fastidious, fastidiously
    - glib
    - harbinger
    - idiosyncratic
    - insidious
    - non sequitur
    - ostentatious
    - ostracized
    - panacea
    - sycophant
    - ubiquitous
    - zealous, zealousness, over zealous
    Are we a smart bunch? ;)

    Where are macabre, tautology and supercilious? Some of my favourite words! :D
     
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    I prefer to mix metaphors. Like skating close to the wind, sailing on thin ice or by the skin of my teeth. I also say "eh?" if someone asks 'did you see that?' and I say 'Sure, I'm not blind' if someone says 'did you hear that?'. I'm nonsense! :D
     
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    I only need 2 words that makes me sound smart these days.



    Financially Free.

    :D:cool:
     
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    I know one big word which will make you sound smart - "platyhelminthes"
     
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    It could be Smarties @Leo1234
    At least no poofters here :p

    I used the words like copulation, fecundity and culture in lab before... can I count me as smart?
     
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    Probably a bit hard to work into everyday conversation. ;)
     
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    Nah; easy; "I was doing some gardening today and uncovered a platyhelminthes!"
     
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    :eek: i'm staying out of this one.. I get into enough trouble as it is! :D

    p.s I do like fecundity
     
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    @Goreng Ming every time I see your name it makes me hungry cos it reminds me Me Goreng! :D
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    Don't know why but I read that word out loud with a lisp and sounds like "a plate o' hell mince" :rolleyes:
     
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    Why use a $ 5 word when a 50c one will do

    Some of these are pretty much everyday chat depending on your assoicates

    ta

    rolf
     
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    As long as they don't drop specificity in the conversation, you're fine.

    Oh, and feel free to cheerfully throttle them if they start using portmanteaux such as posimistic, chillax, inspirated etc.
     
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    ...but it's not fair we already know your smart doc:p;)
     
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    While I could use these words, and at times use several of them; I tend to avoid them in favour of plain English as I wish to not sound like a complete douche. That being said, these words come in very handy when equivocating non-sequitur responses. Something I do when I have no idea what I'm talking about and wish to hide through confusing the person to whom I am speaking.
     
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    I guess that whilst anyone who reads papers and listens to the ABC, BBC, CNN etc would know those words, they aren't often flung about in everyday use around the breakfast table or the office (depending on which office of course).

    I would think if I heard someone using more than one of those in any conversation in, say, a coffee shop, I'd look around to see who they might be trying to impress :D.

    Some are words we use fairly regularly, and others less so.

    I think most people choose the words they use to suit the audience.

    We don't want to sound pretentious, mwah? :p
     
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