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.
- Trenchant
- Phlegmatic
- Albatross
- Miasma
- 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!



#1 by Randy Maness at May 23rd, 2007
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“Baby, why don’t you peregrinate your ass in the kitchen and procure me a beer?”
That was just great.. lol
I have heard trenchant and albatross, yet the others are somewhat new. I should probably learn to incorporate such words into my own vocabulary.
#2 by Bobby Revell at May 23rd, 2007
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I’m glad you liked the humour. I have a list of personally chosen words I’ve compiled over the last 10 years.
I find I have to become really used to one before I use it in writing so it sounds natural. Thanks!
#3 by Anastasia at May 23rd, 2007
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LOL in the kitchen eh?
I also like miasma, the way it sounds.
#4 by Bobby Revell at May 23rd, 2007
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Thanks Anastasia, Just a little traditional American humor to balance things out!
#5 by Reema at May 23rd, 2007
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LOL. Oh, gosh. You had me laughing here. Really informative though, learned new words today. Cracked up at the way you used the word miasma
Cheers for sharing!
#6 by Bobby Revell at May 23rd, 2007
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Hi Reema!
A little humor can make learning new words fun and easy. You won’t be able to forget it now!