Expand your vocabularies! BIG words you have come across lately (1 Viewer)

[sugaryblue]

1) circumlocutary - use many words for what could be said with fewer words

Where have I come across it? : Marker's comment in my Advanced 2 trial.


Your turn!

 

[babydoll_]

2) juxtaposition - placing two different things next to each other, creating a contrasting effect

i use it everywhere

 

[Lazarus]

3) gynotikolobomassophile - a person who enjoys chewing or nibbling on a woman's earlobe

We had it playing Balderdash once.

 

[legally_blonde]

are you for real?
goodness gracious!
my word of the month is 'ephemeral'... not because its really big or anything i just like using it in essays because it sounds nice!

 

[Gregor Samsa]

Concatenation-Synonym for 'combination'
Leitmotiv-Central, guiding idea/concept.
Eschatological-Refers to post-death 'locations'/ideologies, eg: Christian eschatology refers to heaven and hell. I learnt the word from quoting Jan Kott in a King Lear essay.
Existensial-Philosophical doctrine, of many varieties, but generally centered upon the nature of existence.
Temporal Context-Location in time.
Transmogrification-Transformation into another form of being. (This is useful for Change, for the metaphoric transmogrification of The Glass Jar and the literal case of The Metamorphosis.)
Emjambment-Poetic technique, referring to the 'carrying over' of sentences between stanzas. Usually affects the poem's rhythm (Eg: The Glass Jar, where the use of this technique conveys the rapidly progressing, inescapable nature of the protagonists nightmares.)
Encapsulation-Summing up.
Antidisestablishmentarianism-The ideology of being against the ideology of disestablishmentarianism, I believe.

 

[legally_blonde]

I'm finding it really helpful to incorporate a lot of my Society and Culture terms into my English responses... (enculturation, socialisation, social construct etc etc)
believe it or not I've almost convinced my English teacher that I am semi-intelligent hahaha

 

[sugaryblue]

defenestration- suicide by throwing oneself out of the window

 

[spin spin sugar]

interpolation (courtesy of Mike85)

 

[+:: $i[Q]u3 ::+]

encapsulating.. well, its my favourite atm.

 

[Chameleon]

paean: a poem or story in tribute to someone or something. eg. Felix Skrzynecki is a paean to the composer's father.

 

[Leanne]

ambiguous!!!!! definately use in post modernism!!!

 

[chip]

not a big word but i used consolidate in my interview yesterday as a substitute for practice

 

[Rahul]

quintessential- the most important thing (eg- the quintesential argument raised is...)

our ext1 class all uses it in all the exams/assignments, quite funny actually.

 

[Lazarus]

Originally posted by Rahul
our ext1 class all uses it in all the exams/assignments, quite funny actually.

Our class did the same for 'transcendental'.

 

[Frigid]

emancipation - liberation or freedom (as of a slave etc) - ie. state you feel post-HSC.
synecdoche - part meaning whole (a poetic technique) - (cf. Gwen Harwood's The Glass Jar)
asyndeton - the lack of connectives (a poetic technique)
anaphora - repetition of words in a line (a poetic technique)
enjambement - the running on of a line (a poetic technique) - (cf. Gwen Harwood's In the Park)
floccinaucipilification - something about minuteness or insignificance of something (???)
gerund - a verbal noun in the active sense
gerundive - a verbal adjective in the passive sense
'values and attitudes' - definite phrase for ENGLISH!
'textual integrity' - ditto! for Mod C 'Critical Study'

edit:
xenophobia - fear of foreigners
synchophantic - sucking up to someone/something...
intertextuality - the similiarities/allusions/appropriations between texts.
metatext - the whole 'Transformations' of texts in Module A... this is the key word...
'Deus Ex Machina' - lit. 'God from a Machine' - orig. a deity which the author introduces to solve the complication(s) of the text. Later comes to mean a improbable but coincidential ending.
circumlocution (or periphrasis) - (noun of the word that sugaryblue introduced; i disagree with her definition though) - a bit like euphemism, a roundabout way of saying something...
denouement - the logical conclusion of a story. (cf. Ext 1 - Crime Fiction).
pleonasm - *this* is the word sugarblue was looking for... using more words than necessary...
ellipsis - the "..." symbols, basically omission of word(s).
apostrophe - (NB: not the sign) - addressing an inanimate object/group or dead person(s) as if they were animate and capable of understanding...
antithesis - duh. opposites.
grandiloquent - lofty or pompous
(the) Canon - adjective 'canonical' - a set of highly-esteemed texts, said to be the epitome of english literature (eg. shakespeare, DH lawrence etc)
syncope - the literary technique of 'syncopation'.
flocculant - a chemical which causes crap in impure water to cluster together and sink into the bottom.
Machiavellian - power-hungry, will use all means to get to top and stay there (ie. me).
permissive (society) - a society in which views are tolerant to non-traditional moral values (esp. 'loose' sexual behaviour).
ampersand - the "&" symbol (which is actually pronounced as "et" not "and" - stupid Bisc& advertisers!).
schadenfreude - a bit like sadism, basically pleasure in others misfortune.
misogyny - hatred of women.
misandry - hatred of men.
misogamy - hatred of marriage.

NB: Use all of the above in your english HSC will mean either high band-six, or a huge mihi non sequitur from the examiner.

 

[Newbie]

is intertemporal a word?

 

[Frigid]

good try, but no.

 

[Newbie]

too bad my eco teacher doesnt know that ahahaha

 

[Newbie]

Originally posted by legally_blonde
are you for real?
goodness gracious!
my word of the month is 'ephemeral'... not because its really big or anything i just like using it in essays because it sounds nice!

i learnt that word while i was plagiarising one of lazarus's essays........i mean.......erm......hmmmm

 

[um name please]

The Longest word in the english language without using one lette twice or more is, UNCOPYRIGHTABLE.
useless piece of information for the week.
words that work for me in essays are:
-the
-and
-when.