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it sounds very strange for those who are non-native english to extent that s/he has to look for a dictionary to know its definition.

2006-10-11 05:23:53 · 12 answers · asked by block_binder 1 in Education & Reference Words & Wordplay

12 answers

Intelligentsia is one that comes to mind. Another is Moribund. How about Ablutions? Or Truculent? Maybe Lugubrious? Oh, I could go on and on...
Have Fun!

2006-10-11 06:32:29 · answer #1 · answered by The Mystic One 4 · 1 0

I agree thoroughly! and it is so humorous by way of fact that's totally practically completely interior sight audio equipment who declare that, and that i propose what do they even comprehend approximately gaining awareness of the language? english is my 2d language, and that i discover it lots extra handy than spanish, which i'm interpreting besides. in spanish you have a majority of those verb conjugations and diverse tenses, which english lacks to an extremely intense degree. i assume that's some monolinguals' way of justifying understanding in basic terms one language, sorta like "oh yeah I in basic terms comprehend one, yet a minimum of that's the toughest language to income!". having pronounced this, i've got considered this tendency between interior sight audio equipment of alternative languages besides. i'm swedish, and in specific cases I come for the era of swedes who declare that the swedish language is the toughest to income. swedish isn't confusing to income the two, yet i could say in all probability harder than english.

2016-10-16 02:01:57 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

Omphaloskepsis.

2006-10-11 05:25:34 · answer #3 · answered by David M 2 · 0 0

Discombobulated.

2006-10-11 05:31:05 · answer #4 · answered by Trollbuster 6 · 1 0

Antidisestablishmentariansm
Hypnagogic
Onomatopia

2006-10-11 05:34:26 · answer #5 · answered by EddE08 2 · 2 0

Euphemism, artichoke, jay-walk, oxymoron.

2006-10-11 06:22:51 · answer #6 · answered by ravin_lunatic 6 · 2 0

"Nicompoop" I love this word,it sounds fab. It means "fool"

"Plump" meaning a little bit chubby (fat, I don't like using this word.)

2006-10-11 05:53:14 · answer #7 · answered by stiflersmom29 3 · 1 0

Eunuch, as opposed to unique.

2006-10-11 05:31:28 · answer #8 · answered by MigukInUJB 3 · 2 0

serendipity (which is what I experience whenever I look something up in a reference book)

2006-10-11 05:53:08 · answer #9 · answered by tink_mcd 2 · 1 0

plutocracy

(what we have in the USA that used to be called democracy)

2006-10-11 06:11:20 · answer #10 · answered by happy heathen 4 · 1 0

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