#rare english words

[er-cryptid]

Rare English Words

Epoch -- a particular period of time in history or a person’s life

Intransigent -- refusing to agree or compromise

Beamish -- bright, cheerful, optimistic

Insouciant -- free from worry, concern, or anxiety

Veridical -- truthful

Effulgent -- shining forth brilliantly; radiant

Venetus -- having the color of the deep blue sea

Orphic -- mysterious and entrancing; beyond ordinary understanding

Eldritch -- eerie; weird; spooky

Esoteric -- intended for or likely to be understood by only a select few; private; secret

Rout -- to howl as the wind; make a roaring noise

Aeonian -- eternal; everlasting

Verendus -- to be feared; worthy of reverence; giving an appearance of aged goodness

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[aboutiroh]

Being multilingual is constantly being confronted with the fact that you don’t know a basic word in one of the languages you speak.

Yesterday, while returning from the store, I realized I couldn’t remember the English word for the object I had just bought. This object may have been one of the first English words I learned in school and yet I couldn’t remember it no matter how hard I tried. The best I came up with was ‘tubular adhesive’. I had bought a glue stick.

#in my defense #I don’t think I used a glue stick in the past decade #it’s also a lot worse when you realize you know the English word for something #but you don’t remember the word in your native language #which unfortunately happens more often than I’d like to admit #everyone around me is at least bilingual so this doesn’t happen a lot #but in the rare instance that someones compliments me on my ability to speak 3 languages #i just can’t help but think I’m not really proficient in any of them #though no proficiency test can explain why you would know the words tubular and adhesive but not glue and stick #moral of the story is #go buy a glue stick

[grimae]

they don't want to you to know about this but you can turn one plant into many plants by drying and storing its seeds

#i bought a heirloom tomato seed set and a set of rare sunflower seeds earlier this year and i'm now preparing them for next year #and each time it feels like i'm gaming the system. stonks. #just make sure the plants are - idk the english word - samenfest. true to seed? man idk. #asmo labert

[dozydawn]

tragic to me that “rarity” & “pristine” aren’t more common as virtue-type names.

they don’t even have listings on nameberry, only a couple forum posts where they’re shut down & told they would work better as middle names.

in 2021 there were just 7 girls named pristine & 10 named rarity. source. they’d have only a 1-2% chance of ever encountering someone else with that name in their lifetimes. rare indeed!

#name nerd #i mean. pristine would constantly be misheard as christine but that’s not the worst annoyance in the world #(speaking as someone with a difficult birth name that’s constantly confused with another more common name) #it would be a great alternative to priscilla or prisca. pris/prissy is cute. #& i think ‘rarity’ and ‘rare’ are some of the prettiest words in english

[rylxdreams]

For requests, could you maybe draw Lanolin the Sheep from the IDW Sonic the Hedgehog comics in the scenario of this base?

She's such a cutie in this base!

(Also I will always thank the Sonic franchise for teaching me very rare English words, I was today years old when I learned lanolin is actually a wool grease/wax)

#rylxdraws #lanolin the sheep #idw sonic #sonic the hedgehog #sth #sonic #doodle #lineart #sketch #art request #ive got ryl answers #answered ask #drawing request #sheep #seriously it's because of the sonic franchise that I learned that “espio” “rouge” “knuckles” etcs are actual words #for a long time i thought Lanolin was one of those rare sonic characters with human names KJHSJFDGSD #ah the bliss of not having English as a first language

[sykloni]

hi! I saw your “healing light” story (I loved it btw) and found your interpretation of the purple light really interesting! I’ve been wondering what it was - given that purple is the color of the upgraded telekinesis and butterfly charmer emotes, as well as the purple stream of light that connects us to mantas. My original thought was that it might be darkness (given that it makes it night and looks a bit similar to a darkstone diamond) (which would also place the red light as sort of a light element) or that it might represent memory (as the hint says “hoards ancient secrets). So I’d be curious to hear more of your thoughts on it! Do you have theories for all the lights, or just orange and purple?

Oh yes! I have so many theories as well as things I have basically just made up to make sense of how the world of Sky used to be. I think many different headcanons could be true since we know so little, but personally I don't really care if something is actually true or not if it's interesting.

But anyway my thoughts on colored lights!

I am using them to basically explain the magic system of Sky, (because that's what it is, magic). My headcannon is that (most) living things in the world of Sky have an inner light, that's basically their life force. It is possible to learn to control this inner light for different purposes and harvest the power of colored lights.

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Here is what each colored light represents for me:

Cyan light - AIR ~antigravity, weightlessness, air currents, wind paths

Red Light - DARKNESS ~consume/release, ability to absorb power from surroundings as well as from other creatures, krill's light, darkstone, the basic principle behind power crystal technology (This is the one I have thought about most and I have many fascinating ideas about it.)

Orange Light - FIRE ~healing, life

Blue Light - WATER - purifying, bubbles, snow

Purple Light - MIND ~ levitation, telekinesis, psychic powers, altering reality

Green Light - EARTH ~mostly plants

Yellow/White Light ~"regular light", contains the potential of all the other lights (just like in reality white light contains all the waveleghts)

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Like you can see I don't associate Purple Light with the darkness, for me all that falls under the Red Light which (quoting the Enchantment quests) "can be found where darkness prevails". I honestly never even considered making any connections between Purple Light and the darkness 🤔 Mostly I think there are two reasons for that:

By "the darkness" I don't mean just any absence of light. I think of the darkness more like a force of nature that's opposite to The Light(/Megabird) and I mostly use it in reference to pollution and corrupted things like dark crabs and krill.

Even if the Purple Light quest turns the Forgotten Ark into night after doing the Enchantment quest, it doesn't make the area dark, quite the opposite it fills it with moonlight that comes through the cloud cover and makes it actually pretty bright.

But you are of course free to headcanon things differently! :) Just like I said in the beginning we know very little about the world of Sky for sure and my headcanons also change when I think of something better/more fitting

#ask #(English is not my first language) #(and I am not the best at explaining things through just words so I hope this still makes sense) #(and thank you for the ask) #(it's so rare to get those 💜)

[tchaikovskaya]

what is your first wordle guess word 👀

#apparently the most common one is 'adieu' but i find that a little goofy bc in english those vowels are rarely in thos #*those positions. like i get the point of trying to figure out which vowels are in the word but its not terribly useful imho

[jadeharleysgarden]

GG: hi guys!!! i wanted to come on here and wish everybody here a merry christmas and a happy holiday season

GG: hehehe bec wishes you all a merry christmas too!!!

GG: oh!! you guys need to see this

GG: dave got me this a while ago! he says it makes me 100 times cooler because it's ironic and funny but i think he's the coolest!!

GG: i sent him and all my other friends some gifts this year, they all already got theirs!! mail takes forever to run from here so i always ship stuff really early

GG: i know they’ll love what i got them!!! i’ve already seen their reactions in the clouds

GG: not that you guys would really know about that!! i’ll explain later ><

GG: for now i just want to enjoy some time off!! that was my last prediction of the year, so now i get to relax with bec and my grandpa! though.. he’s not really one for the holidays!! he’s always so straight-faced, even during this time of year :/

GG: but maybe this time i’ll finally get him in the holiday spirit!! :D

GG: anyways i hope you all have a very merry christmas, and a happy new year!!!

#Jadeharleysgarden #Jade Harley #ask jade harley #homestuck #homestuck ask blog #homestuck rp blog #mod harley #+ #mod english #Happy holidays everyone! Thank you all for the support and kind words heheh! We have a lot planned for this blog #including like?? Some story and lore n shit!! So ask anything you want n we’ll COOK (or attempt. Pray it doesn’t burn!) #— mod english #MOD ENGLISH COOKED 🔥🔥🔥🔥 MEDIUM RARE MMMM NICE AND YUMMY🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 WE LOVE U MOD ENLGISH #but yesyes happy holidays u guys!!! we love u so much ur kind words make us SWOON #xoxo mod harley!!!

[st5lker]

i find it soo intriguing to look at threads of japanese people learning english and discussing confusing grammatical rules because it really is the same thing as what english speakers learning japanese do and talk about. like for as many pages as i had to read to actually understand the difference between は and が i just read a thread in japanese where someone was so confused about why its “i ate some bread” and not “i ate a bread”. like its so interesting to think about things in english that feel so natural to me

#i always wonder what japanese people think about internet typing styles… like theres obviously japanese internet slang but japanese tweets- #are rarely too much different from regular writing save for being casual sometimes #and even then lots of japanese people use full keigo even on places like twitter… #hell even 2ch users use full keigo more often than the average english internet user capitalizes sentences/doesnt abbreviate words

[thefisherqueen]

It was clear that he was in the throes of some vexatious problem.

Vexatious, according to the oxford dictionary: difficult to deal with and causing a lot of anger, worry, or argument

#letters from watson #sherlock holmes #the creeping man #did not know that word #these letters remind me that english is not my first language #I am fluent but still some rare or very specific words evade me #though I don't know if the everage english person knows words like this lol

[hartenlust]

every day i find new bruises

#massive bruise on my thigh? #op #rare english win is the word bruise. blauwe plekken is goed leuk omschrijvend maar heeft geen je ne sais quoi

[pardi-real]

Holy cow.

TIL the word for how a word or a name is pronounced is written as "pronunciation". I really thought it was "pronounciation".

Pro-Nun. Well I love Arknights Specter.

That reminds me some years ago I was absolutely bamboozled by "similar" & "available", I thought those were written as "similiar" & "avaible" .

My life is a lie.. all this from being curious on how to pronounce "Berrien County Jail".

#English struggle #i'm in shock #This is so unreal #It can't be real #Idk man #Til #Tbf I very rarely use those words #Trying to justify the ignorance lol #What is grammar btw I try to not use “but” in front of a sentence but actually I don't care that much #And I keep using abbreviation on is am are despite the formal sentences because of muscle memory #I also can't stick to one term between “human race” and “humanity” despite it's the same word in JP because idk #I'm sincerely sorry for the translation quality in this blog but you know what I like doing this for no good reason #The good ol' tag rambles that I never experienced b4 because this is my first Tumblr account actually #I'm suffering from something that I want to know too but psychiatrists don't exist in my country #But it's most likely laziness #I'm not making masterlists immediately and prev all next links are also due to laziness #I forgot to say that I'm not planning to ruin Fennesz reputation believe me he's still the whole cinnamon roll bakery & sweet guy & like to #Wow so only 140 characters for a tag

[nordic-language-love]

english has a perfectly good word for shinkansen (bullet train) and yet no english speakers here seem to use it they literally all just say shinkansen

#there are a lot of words where we do actually have an english word but most people use the japanese word #but there are subtle differences between the english and the japanese so it makes sense #like genkan #you could translate that as an entry way or an entrance hall #but entry way could be inside or outside and entrance hall suggests a separate room #whereas genkan is specifically the area in a building where you take your shoes off #it's rarely a separate room it's usually just a small area #and then there's onigiri #you could say rice balls but that suggests they're spherical and they're not #onsen is another one #you could say hot spring but that doesn't cover the fact it's a resort/spa area #but shinkansen... it's a bullet train. that's what we call it in english. there's no small differences #i guess bc (a) shinkansen is easier to say and (b) no english signs here say bullet train they all say shinkansen

[pyreemo]

WORDS FOR KILLING DIFFERENT PEOPLE

If you are into crime documentaries and such, you might find this interesting. If this topic makes you uncomfortable, please ignore this and move on. :)

Amicide: Murder of a friend

Episcopicide: Killing of bishops

Filicide: Killing of one's own child

Fraticide: Killing one's brother

Gynaecide: Killing of women

Mariticide: Killing or killer of one's husband

Neonaticide: Killing or killer of a newborn infant

Parenticide: Killing or killer of one's parents

Parricide: Killing of parents

(With the last 2,

one is killing your parents or someone killing your parents, the other is killing parents, in general. Just thought I'd clear that up)

#i am fucking bored #rare words #exactly how many words are in the English language?

[its-paperd]

☆for the "im not american" ask game. 10

10. most enjoyable swear word in your native language?

TEEHEES it's funny, i don't think we have a swear word BUT we do have swear phrases like 'KEPALA BOTAK BAPAK HANG LA' which means ' on your father's bald ass head, la!! ' and so on and so forth teehees

#mailmail✉️ #i rarely swear in malah really thr english swear words are so much fun XBHSVXDD

[nikosliberty]

ok so im going through gta iv’s script for some knowledge for a fic and im like totally dumbfounded about how so much of niko and packie’s conversations (even while sober) are just “two men trauma dump to eachother for ten minutes in a car” lmfaooooo

#oh my god these dudes. #please go to therapy!!! #tbf this is a little generalisation there's actually some healing (or somnething close to that) happening here #i liked that piece of dialogue thats like #niko: 'its very rare to find one word that can sum up a feeling you have. in my language #in english. its very rare to find the word that says it all. i think its best to say nothing.' #packie: 'you could be fucking right.' #like damn okay! did the writers wake up on the right side of the bed that day? #gta iv #niko bellic #packie mcreary