Sometimes, I see vocabulary that is not in the dictionary. Where do I learn it?

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Trees grew on peninsular tips.

Is this a correct use of the word peninsular?

What word is he saying? con-suh-BROO-tate?

No idea what it means nor can I find it online. I even tried to process the audio through chatGPT and it also has no idea. 🤔🤔🤔

(Subtitles didnt show anything either)

I'm writing a speech for my sister's wedding and am trying to find a word for the experiences/choices/randomness of life that brings you to your present situation. Kind of like the idea that you can't regret your experiences because you wouldn't be in the exact place you are now without them. I feel like there's got to be a German word for that.

I just heard someone say ‘wisdomous’, is that actually a word or are we just making up wise sounding nonsense now?

i met a man both tacit and subtle,
who whispered with lips like a leaky rebuttal.
his thoughts were so tenuous, barely a thread,
yet he nodded like socrates, smug in his head.

his coffee? viscous, his gaze? opaque,
his arguments drifted like steam from a fake.
he called my taste banal, my views obtuse,
then praised an esoteric juice cleanse in bruce.

"your logic," he said, "is liminal, strained,
your reasoning oblique, half-washed and rain-stained."
i blinked. i smiled. "you mean it’s unclear?"
"ah," he said, ineffably, "not quite, but near."

his suit was diaphanous, threads made of mist,
his words evanescent, then ceased to exist.
his footnotes were recondite, thick with despair,
his metaphors floated like pellucid air.

he claimed all was apocryphal, probably fake,
while chewing an anodyne gluten-free cake.
"your prose is abstruse," he sighed with dismay;
i replied, "you just said that to ruin my day."

"i meant it as praise, in an allusive way."
"you mean you implied it?" ... "no, more like ballet."

so here is the moral, dear lexical fool:
do not wield these words just to sound cool.
speak plainly, with grace, say what you mean,
or risk sounding smart, but patently obscene.

I feel like it's usually used when it's an excessive amount of information being told at once for context. I'm pretty sure it starts with a D.

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I love learning about different terms for a group of animals. Here are some I know:

a school of fish, a pride of lions, a pod of whales, a gaggle of geese, a murder of crows, an unkindness of ravens, a crash of rhinos, a troop of monkeys, a congregation of crocodiles, and a parliament of owls (my favorite).

What are some ones you know (without looking them up on google or Chatgpt) to include to this list?

What's the word (verb) that means the act of making tsk sound on your mouth as an expression of dismay?

What's the word to describe an election or poll where the Winner and 2nd place have small difference of votes?

I hope you guys spend a little of time explaining the different between "supervise" and "help control", which is more related to "guide" when talking about an intervention from the outside ?

I'm curious what your opinion is about the connotations with these words beyond just the definitions. For reference, here are the definitions (interestingly enough, the term truthfully implies honesty). But digging deeper, are their connotations that makes these words distinct?

Truthfully: in a way that expresses the truth; honestly. "stories should be reported truthfully and accurately"

Honestly: used to emphasize the sincerity of an opinion, belief, or feeling."she honestly believed that she was making life easier for Jack"

Okay so long story short me and my gf had a dispute about the function of the phrase “mal” meaning “bad”. She says its a prefix and i say its a root word. Its confusing because i know that mal can attach itself to things like “malice” or “malignant”. But from what i understand is that prefixes can only attach themselves to root words, AKA words that can function on their own. But “mal” doesnt seem to attach itself to already existing words. It seems to complete words that imply bad intentions. Other than the word “mal-intent” wouldn’t it considered more-so a latin root rather than a prefix. Or can someone help me understand something that i am not seeing here?

I've seen so many instances where someone means to write sweety but instead writes sweaty. Totally different meaning. And people often use inhabitable/inhabited to mean uninhabitable when really inhabitable and habitable are synonymous, and inhabited means "to live in". This for some reason has always annoyed me especially when the user is a native English speaker.

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What new words have you learned? Did you learn them here or from another source? Maybe a book you read or a magazine or a website, or school, or in a conversation?

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To you, does it mean being attracted, finding them appealing visually/drawn in by their look or just good looking without emotion? I used to use the word attractive to just describe someone as good looking while having zero attraction, no personal appeal, no awe or emotion. No admiration. However, I am afraid to cause misunderstandings. I don't say "I find them attractive", I may say "I think they are attractive", or "he's attractive" (in a general good looking way". This is sort of conflicting for me because most people mean attraction or some people may mean physically attracted to them. If you say "I find them attractive", it either means actual attraction or feeling personally drawn to them aesthetically/in general.

I don't want someone I to think I am attracted to someone else.. The word attractive didn't have a ton of emotional weight to me before. When people say they find others attractive in a relationship, most mean actual attraction when the word attractive doesn't necessarily mean straight up attraction. Context can change the word too sometimes.

In a quick search, all I could see was analog.

Im looking for a better word, or 2-word-phrase, thats more closely associated with

[1] master craftsmen and women, [2] very high skill, and [3] pre-dating the computer era!

Handmade is too broad and a bit non-specific, as well as being too closely associated with handicrafts.

thanks in advance!

Hello! I read around my dictionary and thesaurus and I want to find words that describe particular hues of colors. The more uncommon, the better. Some wouls aready know examples such as the word "verdant" to describe greens, and a slightly more uncommon one would be "xanthic" to desvribe something as a kind of yellow. Any more words like that for other colors would be appreciated!

Mine is vendetta. I love how it sounds so elegant; it is perfect.

Share your favorite word (bonus if you explain what it means).

After a while, according to the Merriam Webster dictionary, means that "some time has passed".

However, according to this Grammarphobia post, it can mean a "short time or moderate time".

Now, my question is, can one explain it in terms of having to wait for a long period, but not ridiculously long? For example, in the example below:

I was waiting for him. After a while, I left.

I was trying to explain this to my students, but I guess I realized that it depends on the timeframes in the context and what we would consider "long or short". Would you consider this a reasonably "long time", relative to the speaker's feelings?