A list of 20 everyday words that we all love to use. I can’t think of a day that I haven’t used all 20 of them.
- Sesquipedalian – having many syllables; long (Merriam-Webster).
- Crapulous – intemperate (Roget’s Thesaurus First Edition 1865)
- Slugabed – a person who stays in bed until a relatively late hour (MnemonicDictionary)
- Shandrydan – an old-fashioned hooded chaise; a rickety, old-fashioned conveyance (Dictionary.com)
- Whitechapel – billiards: the act of plotting one’s opponent’s white ball (Dictionary.com)
- Toxophilite – a person fond of or expert at archery (Merriam-Webster)
- Farinaceous – state of powder (Roget’s Thesaurus First Edition 1865)
- Yardarm – either end of the long piece of wood fastened to a ship’s mast that supports a sail (Oxford’s Learner Dictionary)
- Alee – upon or toward the lee side of a vessel; away from the wind (Dictionary.com)
- Saporific – producing or imparting flavor or taste (Dictionary.com)
- Knave – a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel (Vocabulary.com)
- Abstergent – having cleansing or purgative properties (Merriam-Webster)
- Soho! – an exclamation announcing the discovery of something unexpected (Collins Dictionary)
- Absquatulate – absence of pursuit; inaction; neutrality (Roget’s Thesaurus First Edition 1865)
- Gormandize – to eat gluttonously or ravenously (Merriam-Webster)
- Mountebank – a person who sells quack medicines from a platform; a boastful unscrupulous pretender; charlatan (Merriam-Webster)
- Clodpoll – a stupid person; blockhead (Dictionary.com)
- Desideratum – something wanted or needed (Dictionary.com)
- Sapient – Wise; sage; discerning; – often in irony or contempt (Webster’s Online Dictionary)
- Monger – a person who is involved with something in a petty or contemptible way (usually used in combination):
