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Do you know the English words that make the triple S (SSS)? Scrumptious, Sequacious and Swingeing. Pretty uncommon words, aren?t they? It might even be the first time that you?ve heard them.
In this post we present you with the rest of the collection of strange English words that completes the list of ?Odd English Words?.
As we usually do, we present the list 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 second part includes the last 12 words from the list:
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More Strange Words in English - Odd English Words (Part 2/2)
Do you know the English words that make the triple S (SSS)? Scrumptious, Sequacious and Swingeing. Pretty uncommon words, aren?t they? It might even be the first time that you?ve heard them.
In this post we present you with the rest of the collection of strange English words that completes the list of ?Odd English Words?.
As we usually do, we present the list 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 second part includes the last 12 words from the list:
| Word | Meaning | Form | Example of use |
|---|---|---|---|
| To Loathe | To dislike (someone or something) greatly | Verb | She loathes men who smoke. |
| A moot point | Something irrelevant / A point or question to be debated | Noun | Until we rebuild downtown, whether we build more parking spaces is a moot point. |
| Potation | The act of drinking / A drink, usually alcoholic | Noun | Perhaps his nocturnal potations, prevented him from recognising accents which were tolerably familiar to him. |
| To quash | To put down or suppress forcibly and completely | Verb | The general ruthlessly quashed all opposition. |
| To rarefy | To make thin, less compact, or less dense | Verb | The bones are rarefied. |
| Scrumptious | Delicious or very attractive | Adjective | My grandmother does really scrumptious cakes. |
| Sequacious | Slavishly unthinking and uncritical | Adjective | Sequacious media is bad for democracy. |
| Swingeing | Severe; punishingly bad | Adjective | BBC newsreaders face swingeing salary cuts. |
| Tawdry | Cheap, showy, and of poor quality | Adjective | Those are tawdry Christmas decorations. |
| To be on tenterhooks | To be uncertain and anxious about what is going to happen | Verb | He was on tenterhooks about the result of the exam. |
| Tinker?s cuss | To be uninterested in something | Noun | I don?t give a tinker?s cuss if it rains all weekend. |
| To Villify | To make vicious and defamatory statements about | Verb | The Nazi propaganda villified the Jews. |
- 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...
- Verbalearn - Study Vocabulary Easily
Would you like to learn new vocabulary in English with a simple and easy method? In this post we present you a Webpage that will help you in the learning of words in a quickly and funny way. The name of this Webpage is VerbaLearn and its learning method...
- 100 Most Common English Words
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...
- What I Dislike Most In People
What I dislike most in people What I dislike most in people is when they do not keep their words. I have had many encounters with people who do this and I must say I find it most unpleasant. I usually keep my word. If I find that I am not able to because...
- Speak N' Spell
If you students need help with pronunciation, listening and writing, Speak N' Spell can be the perfect software to recommend them and use in the classroom. How does it work? The first time you open it, if you want to add a specific word list for...