Here are some words you don’t hear everyday – which, if incorporated into your daily speech may make you sound like you’re trying to act like you didn’t learn it from a blog; but that you’ve always used it. Warning- don’t say it a lot. It may give away that you’re not a human thesaurus.

1. Trenchant
2. Phlegmatic
3. Albatross
4. Miasma
5. Peregrinate

Revellian’s Expressive linguistics 101:

Philology and psycho-linguistically descriptive dialectology

Here are some words you don’t hear everyday – which, if incorporated into your daily speech may make you sound like you’re trying to act like you didn’t learn it from a blog; but that you’ve always used it. Warning- don’t say it a lot. It may give away that you’re not a human thesaurus.

  1. Trenchant
  2. Phlegmatic
  3. Albatross
  4. Miasma
  5. Peregrinate
  • Trenchant- sharply perceptive, aware, very keen

example- Now Billy-Ray might not look smart, but he is unexpectedly trenchant.

  • Phlegmatic-Having a slow way about you, Being unemotional, cold.

“How can you just stand there and lie. It takes a phlegmatic witch to eat a mans last Twinkie!”

A real oddball word not used much is:

  • Albatross- A constant, worrisome burden or An obstacle to success- or one of those large birds you were thinking about.

“Honey, get in here! You may not think so, but I’m a helluva lot more trenchant than I look! I mean. . .thirty-seven pairs of shoes? I don’t see how you can act so phlegmatic about this. This has become a serious albatross for us both! Gimme those credit cards. . .”

  • Miasma- A thick vaporous atmosphere or emanation, or poisonous air

“Wait, don’t go in the bathroom! It’s a miasma in there!”

I like the words sheath, shroud, encrust and slither. They are so propitious:
Splattering forth from my encrusted memories, it slithered onward as gelatinous cognitions of repressed dissociative amnesia. Ancient visions of an unknown mind unveiled to me an inherent vaporous psychoses – a misted cloud if you will – shaded in vermilion pigment and the fragrance of vanilla summer. This undulating creature hath long been sheathed within the glistening skins of my cold, wet nightmares. I have long suffocated within these tightly wrapped densities – these deceptive mirrors of my self actualization. Betwixt multitudinous layers of thickened cortex and shrouded past lives, you will find the real me. THAT’S ENOUGH. . . I know this is really weird but can be effective if used sparingly to delineate things in new, unusual ways.

Here’s another rarely used word which exhibits a unique sporadicalness:

  • Peregrinate- To journey or travel from place to place, especially on foot.

“Baby, why don’t you peregrinate your ass in the kitchen and procure me a beer?”
Actually, Lets refrain from saying that. That just might become the albatross that ended it all!