Words that you know that make you feel all clever

[San Bernardhinault]

Peripatetic.

[ChrisJ]

Well, that's this thread f***ed.

Soz. I'm anaspeptic, frasmotic, even compunctuous to have caused you such pericombobulation.

[Snake Plissken]

Yes.

"Bailiwick".

[Guy Profumo]

Bailiwick. I use it all the time. And some say that Tom Clancy couldn't write literature.

But can you pronounce it?

[Sporting]

Tiquismiquis.

[Amor de Cosmos]

Boustrophedon = ‘The Way of the Ox’

I get a chance to use about once a year in a typography class.

[Snake Plissken]

Bailiwick. I use it all the time. And some say that Tom Clancy couldn't write literature.

[Guy Profumo]

Never mind clever words.

I worked with someone who needed the word "garner" explained to them.

[Bored Of Education]

I love 'petrichor' and, yes, have used it loads to impress.

'Discombobulated' is easily my favourite word anyway and fits in this category. 'Apposite' is another one but I am not sure whether anyone thinks it clever.

Of course, there are loads of technical ones but I am not sure that they just don't cross over to jargon. We don't have many in education - most of our jargon is initialisations or general management-speak bullsit - but 'pedagogy/pedagogical' is one I like to use as I was the only person to stick my hand up in the first lecture of my Education Studies degree and ask what it meant.

Learnt 'andropause' today but I think I prefer 'manopause'

[Jah Womble]

Well, that's this thread f***ed.

[ChrisJ]

The kind of things that you can drop in when other people are talking about stuff and you know what that is, can say so and feel smug for about ten seconds.

"My cat is so weird, he only goes out like at dawn and at sunset, what's THAT about?"

"He's 'Diurnal'."

That kind of thing.

I hate to break it to you Rogin....

The word you need here is crepuscular.

[Guy Profumo]

Epicaricacy - the delight in the misfortune of others.

[Nurse Duckett]

Petrichor - the pleasing (to some) aroma from the ground when the sun comes out after a period of rain.

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

The kind of things that you can drop in when other people are talking about stuff and you know what that is, can say so and feel smug for about ten seconds.

"My cat is so weird, he only goes out like at dawn and at sunset, what's THAT about?"

"He's 'Diurnal'."

That kind of thing.