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How many of you can proudly say you have a great vocabulary?
I, for one, am always looking for new words to add in, and never sure that I know enough words to describe or express something accurately.
Like, there's a word for every phenomenon or a feeling, only that we are unaware of those.

Here, I have made an attempt to improve vocabulary for each one of us who feels like me.

So, here a word will be posted daily along with it's meaning and an example as to how and where you can use it.

It would be great if you also participate and let us know if you knew the word beforehand or it's new for you. That would be encouraging for everyone.

The word for today is:-

Logophile
Meaning: A lover of words, a person who loves words and language
Example: Shakespeare was such a logophile that he took the words he already loved and crafted them into new ones.

Did you know this word? Let us know in the comments!

What better word to start this thread with other than this, isn't it?

Never heard of this word. Thank you for sharing it here.

Uxorious - very fond of one's wife

Example - She was feeling suffocated by her uxorious husband as she preferred some alone time to read her books.

Example -

Not able to remove example as I am using the Goodreads app.

I have a decent English vocabulary. I had studied for GRE and TOEFL exam 5 years ago in order to pursue higher studies abroad but later I decided not to. Thanks to those two exams, I learnt many new words and familiar words whose meanings I didn't know. Now that I started reading again after a protracted hiatus, those words I learnt are coming in very handy. But still there are so many new words out there which are not mentioned even in advanced lexicons, like logophile.

Austin wrote: "Never heard of this word. Thank you for sharing it here.

Uxorious - very fond of one's wife

Example - She was feeling suffocated by her uxorious husband as she preferred some alone time to read ..."

Oh! I didn't know of this word. Thanks for sharing it. And yeah, many words are out there which don't even come in notice.

The word for today is:-

Bibliophagist
Meaning: A devourer of books/a voracious reader
Example: Like many bibliophagists, Dirda sometimes has an excessively romantic view of the power of the page.

Did you know that Bibliophile means "lover of books" which is completely different from Bibliophagist?

Did you know this word? Let us know in the comments!

Samarah wrote: "I haven’t heard of this word before but thx for sharing it! I will definitely use it now :)"

Yes, even I haven't but I found it somewhere :)

Never heard of the word bibliophagist.

Hagiography - the writings of saints
Hagiolatry - the worship of saints

Heard of these words before?

I had heard of hagiography but hagiolatry was new for me .Thanks for sharing!

Austin wrote: "Hagiography - the writings of saints
Hagiolatry - the worship of saints

Heard of these words before?"

Never! Thanks for enlightening us.

Ossuary - a container or room in which the bones of dead people are kept

TBH I looked up the meaning of this word on the net. I knew it had something to do with bones but I forgot it's exact meaning. By sharing it here I also learnt the exact meaning of this word.

While a Reliquary is a container for relics. A relic doesn't necessarily have to be bones. It could be any old valuable object.

I read a book named Reliquary by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child during lockdown last year in the end of March.

Thanks for sharing these words Austin.

This is a very informative thread, thank you all for putting up new words everyday :)

Glad to share. Where's your word of the day Rushali? :) I look forward to learning something new.

Glad to share. Where's your word of the day Rushali? :) I look forward to learning something new.

Ananya wrote: "This is a very informative thread, thank you all for putting up new words everyday :)"

Thanks! :-)

Austin wrote: "Glad to share. Where's your word of the day Rushali? :) I look forward to learning something new."

Coming right up!

Bumfuzzle: Means confused or perplexed
I found it randomly on a online Dictionary

Queen V wrote: "Bumfuzzle: Means confused or perplexed
I found it randomly on a online Dictionary"

Oh thanks! I didn't know this one.

Yeah it's a weird one, isn't it

The word for today is:-

Xenophobia
Meaning: Fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign
Example: If xenophobia did not exist, racism would not exist because people would not dislike others because of their differences.

Did you know that there's a significant usage of this word?
A year into the pandemic, some steps are being taken to combat anti-Asian xenophobia.
— Katherine Singh, refinery29.com, "A Year Into COVID, Anti-Asian Racism Continues To Spread," 15 Feb. 2021

Did you know this word? Let us know in the comments!

Queen V wrote: "Yeah it's a weird one, isn't it"

Yes very!😂

Queen V wrote: "Yeah it's a weird one, isn't it"

If we use it in front of someone who doesn't know it's meaning, I am not sure how it's interpretation will be...lol

Yeah I know xenophobia. The detailed definition was useful though. Never heard of bumfuzzle and yeah it does sound weird :)

Austin wrote: "Yeah I know xenophobia. The detailed definition was useful though. Never heard of bumfuzzle and yeah it does sound weird :)"

Oh well that's nice.

The word for today is:-

Octothorpe
Meaning: the symbol #
Example: It's difficult to see octothorpe in a sentence.

Did you know that this popular and very important symbol # had an actual name?
Let us know in the comments!

Oh. Never heard of octothorpe. Isn't it more well known by it's other word, hash?

Thorpe - a village

Austin wrote: "Oh. Never heard of octothorpe. Isn't it more well known by it's other word, hash?"

Yeah it's known by hash only but there's an actual word for it too!

I actually knew.... I feel strange to admt that..

Lady Night wrote: "I actually knew.... I feel strange to admt that.."

Wow! That's awesome. Why feel strange 😳

I didn’t know any of these words!

Bhavya wrote: "I didn’t know any of these words!"

Yeah, it's shocking right!

Rushali wrote: "Bhavya wrote: "I didn’t know any of these words!"

Yeah, it's shocking right!"

It is!

I thought # was the pound symbol or a hashtag. Thanks for posting that one.

Erica wrote: "I thought # was the pound symbol or a hashtag. Thanks for posting that one."

Mention not, this thread is for learning and spreading new words only,😁

The word for today is:-

Snickersnee
Meaning: a large knife
Example:Make haste, make haste, says guzzling Jimmy while Jack pulled out his snickersnee.

While this word sounds like something funny or possibly cute, it is actually referring to a long, dangerous knife.
What was your first impression about this word?
Did you know it?
Let us know in the comments!

My first impression of snickersnee was that it's a word to describe giggling.

Quotidian - Daily

Austin wrote: "My first impression of snickersnee was that it's a word to describe giggling.

Quotidian - Daily"

Hahaha! Noted.

The word for today is:-

Biblioklept
Meaning: one who steals books
Example: She can not be trusted in the library due to her biblioklept tendencies

Did you know that this word existed? Have you ever had an encounter with a biblioklept or are you one yourself?

Let us know in the comments!

I didn't know that a word called biblioklept existed. I figured out it's meaning even before I read it's definition as I am familiar with the word kleptomania which means an impulsive desire to steal. And that will be my word of the day.

Austin wrote: "I didn't know that a word called biblioklept existed. I figured out it's meaning even before I read it's definition as I am familiar with the word kleptomania which means an impulsive desire to ste..."

Good insight.

The word for today is:-

Agelast
Meaning: a person who never laughs
Example:He was an agelast but then he watched a Charlie Chaplin movie.

Did you know that this word existed? Have you ever met an agelast?

Let us know in the comments!

That is so sad.

Haha. Not heard of agelast.

Aegis - under the auspices of

Weekly Wrap-Up:-
These are the words we have learned in this week:-
1. Logophile: A lover of words, a person who loves words and language
2.Bibliophagist: A devourer of books/a voracious reader
3.Xenophobia: Fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign
4.Octothorpe: the symbol #
5.Snickersnee: a large knife
6.Biblioklept: one who steals books
7.Agelast: a person who never laughs

Words added by other members:-
1.Uxorious - very fond of one's wife
2.Hagiography - the writings of saints
3.Hagiolatry - the worship of saints
4.Ossuary - a container or room in which the bones of dead people are kept
5.Reliquary-a container for relics
6.Bumfuzzle: Means confused or perplexed
7.Thorpe - a village
8.Quotidian - Daily
9.Aegis - under the auspices of

Thanks for your contributions, Austin and Queen V!

I won't be posting a new one today and after every week I'll be putting this in case someone had missed. But, if you like you can share words with us here!

The word for today is:-

Friendlily
Meaning: To do something in a friendly way
Example: He friendlily questioned my use of the word friendlily.

Did you also think, on first seeing the word, that it's misspelled? Had you known that a word exists, even to describe a friendly deed? Did you know this word?

Let us know in the comments!

It sounds like bad grammar lmao, like something I'd say