Words that could be used more frequently

[apl68]

Defenestrate

[hmaria1609]

Defenestrate

An all too common occurrence on "Game of Thrones," for those who watched the show or knew someone who did.  :D

[Dismal]

Discernment.

I do think I might try to use Baffled in my next faculty meeting.

[Anselm]

An English teacher recently praised me for using ebullient in a sentence.

[ergative]

My mother was once womanning a stall at a college fair at my sister's high school. While talking to a prospective student, she used the term 'ludicrous'. The prospective student said, 'Oh, you must be [sister]'s mother.'

[apl68]

I was once surprised when grading an undergrad paper to see the student use "crapulent."  And he used it correctly!

[paultuttle]

pithy
evocative




[ducks and runs]

[Langue_doc]

mellifluous

[Larimar]

mellifluous

Ooh, I like that one.

[Parasaurolophus]

Forthwith

I love all this stuff! I've known all the words, save one, but do not use all that many talking and writing.

The one new word I learned is gurried:

Thanks to Meville, I know that gurried means "covered in fish slime."

Can't wait to use it :-)

Wow, that's a keeper!

(Any bets on whether the Spelling Bee accepts it?)

[saffie]

fallacious   

(heard in an MIT OCW lecture on probability)

[aside]

Specious.
Disingenuous.
Prevarication.
Duplicitous

(Something about election season ...)

[Anselm]

https://www.news.com.au/oldfashioned-words-that-should-be-brought-back-into-modern-language/news-story/be009f7c855959f4e43143c3cc0d2630
https://www.dailywritingtips.com/100-whimsical-words/
https://www.lifehack.org/articles/communication/24-old-english-terms-you-should-start-using-again.html
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/59924/50-old-british-dialect-words-incorporate-conversation

[RatGuy]

My wife went through a Wilkie Collins phase, and would occasionally try to bring back such phrases as "bitch the pot" and "a case of the morbs."

I learned the term "shallowpate" recently -- in the most recent Barbara Kingsolver novel, maybe?

[Parasaurolophus]

fallacious   

(heard in an MIT OCW lecture on probability)

I hear that one all over the place, and it's almost always misused. Much like 'valid' or 'invalid', 'sound', and 'begs the question'.