Java3 Posted April 24, 2005 Report Share Posted April 24, 2005 I don't want to be snooty or anything like that, but I'm looking for vacab words to describe important things stronger. Like a word for round, colorful, etc.Or just plain vocab! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Tutankhamun Posted April 24, 2005 Report Share Posted April 24, 2005 You may want to use a Thesaurus, such as this one http://thesaurus.reference.com/ . You can learn lots of fancy ways to say simple words, and it can make your sound more profound.Here's some for Colorful: bright, chromatic, flashy, florid, gaudy, hued, intense, jazzy, kaleidoscopic, loud, motley, multicolored, picturesque, prismatic, psychedelic, rich, showy, splashy, variegated, vibrant, vivid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quacker Posted April 24, 2005 Report Share Posted April 24, 2005 Satiate. (Say-she-ate) That's the most uber word. It means "to fulfill" or "to satisfy". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EKen132 Posted April 24, 2005 Report Share Posted April 24, 2005 Here's a good word. Salient.http://img.sparknotes.com/content/testprep/pdf/sat.vocab.pdfHere's words that you can learn, and they have a good application besides just having a bigger vocab. Some of them are kind of advanced or rare, but without being too pretentious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldenratiophi Posted April 24, 2005 Report Share Posted April 24, 2005 Expanding your vocabulary is a lifelong process, unless you sit down and memorize a dictionary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Java3 Posted April 28, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 28, 2005 Thanks! Now I know that I don't need to always hear everything. We might have a thesaraus..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Tutankhamun Posted April 28, 2005 Report Share Posted April 28, 2005 Yea, that's good. And also by reading more fancy things you'll pick up on words that they use and become more profound in your speech. It's neat to use strong words to better emphasize things that simple words could have done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Titus Ultor Posted April 28, 2005 Report Share Posted April 28, 2005 Here's a word that you have probably heard, but couldn't use in a sentence: "Antidisestablishmentarianism". It means, in my words, someone who is against the disestablishment movement, which stated that there should be a seperation between church and state. Here are a couple ways you could use it (it really impresses professors):"Both Voltaire and Thomas Jefferson stood staunch against the attacks of antidisestablishmentarianism on their beliefs.""Many of the newly reelected President's Evangelical supporters are antidisestablishmentarianists". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bakayaro Posted May 4, 2005 Report Share Posted May 4, 2005 Hippopottomonstrosesquippedaliaphobia is a fun wordIt means the fear of long words.I knew this word for some lung disease... I'll have to ask my friend what it is again... More useful and fun words areCantankerous, Discombobulate, and Circumlocution Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uppy Posted May 8, 2005 Report Share Posted May 8, 2005 There's ostentatious which means proud, stuck-up, and there's magnanamus which mean noble hearted, nice, and you can always check out this website Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
av_nefardec Posted May 14, 2005 Report Share Posted May 14, 2005 Read books. Classic books, not cheesy pop novels.There are more important things than vocabulary involved with expression. I am talking about rhetoric, style - eloquence. Good books teach all of these things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldenratiophi Posted May 14, 2005 Report Share Posted May 14, 2005 Two of my favorite words to use in everyday speech are "incompetent" and "loquacious." I'm sure you know what "incompetent" means and that you deal with those people all the time . "Loquacious" means "excessively talkative." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mythos_Ruler Posted May 14, 2005 Report Share Posted May 14, 2005 lambent (adj) - a light touch, softly lit. "The stars twinkled with a lambent beauty." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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