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In the English language there are also odd, weird and not very common words. We present you below a list with some of these atypical words. It?s worth knowing these words as they are expressions that we use in our colloquial language.
The list is presented in a table with four columns: the Word, the Meaning (in English), the Form and an Example of Use (to see the word in context).
This first part includes the first 11 words from the list.
Do you find any of these words useful?
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Do You Know these English Words? - Odd English Words (Part 1/2)
In the English language there are also odd, weird and not very common words. We present you below a list with some of these atypical words. It?s worth knowing these words as they are expressions that we use in our colloquial language.
The list is presented in a table with four columns: the Word, the Meaning (in English), the Form and an Example of Use (to see the word in context).
This first part includes the first 11 words from the list.
| Word | Meaning | Form | Example of use |
|---|---|---|---|
| Behest | An urgent request | Noun | GM Chief to Resign at White House's Behest. |
| Bunkum | Empty, nonsense talk | Noun | The bunkum of Body Mass Index. |
| Contumely | Scornful or insulting treatment | Noun | Following years of police harassment and public contumely, he was arrested and charged with high treason and espionage. |
| To forgo | To give up | Verb | New Zealand Cricket has persuaded its six Indian Premier League players to agree contracts with the board and forgo "significant sums of money". |
| To Forego | Do without | Verb | Flu fear forces groom to forego nicety. |
| Grisly | Inspiring repugnance, gruesome | Adjective | The grisly murder was committed here. |
| Gristly | Composed of or containing gristle | Adjective | My son has a sore gristly lump behind his nipple. |
| Grizzly | A grizzly bear | Noun | The grizzly bear is a subspecies of brown bear. |
| To go haywire | Crazy, mad | Adjective | This period is just haywire time. |
| Hubris | Arrogance | Noun | There is no safety in unlimited technological hubris. |
| Jejune | Not interesting / Childish | Adjective | He was very surprised by their jejune responses to our problems. |
Do you find any of these words useful?
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Do you know what the 100 most common words in English are? Tough question, isn't it? We present you today an amusing online game where you can practice and learn the 100 most used words of the language. This list of words was compiled using the Oxford...
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The Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) is the largest freely-available corpus of English, and the only large and balanced corpus of American English. A simple click for each query will automatically fill in the form for you, search through...