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10 excellent long-lost words you should definitely start using again
SOME WORDS WE over-use, some we hardly use at all. Wayne State Univeristy’s Word Warriors have released a list of words that we should be using more, in the wake of words such as tweep and hashtag being added to the dictionary.
Give these old yet beautiful words some love!
Hefin Owen Hefin Owen
A shrill howling or wailing noise.
Mike Kniec Mike Kniec
The skillful and harmonious arrangement or fitting together of the different parts of something.
jchaplewsky jchaplewsky
Flapdoodle, Nonsense.
A roguish or mischievous act.
Luz Adriana Villa Luz Adriana Villa
A mixture of different things.
Katherine Johnson Katherine Johnson
To walk about.
A person who begins to learn or study only late in life.
Akuppa John Wigham Akuppa John Wigham
A person who is hostile or indifferent to culture and the arts, or who has no understanding of them.
hawkbats hawkbats
A mischievous person.
thirdblade thirdblade
Monotonous urban sprawl of standardized buildings.
Any to add?
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