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Obscure & Fun
17 of the Finest Words for Drinking
Try these out at your next happy hour
Great Big List of Beautiful and Useless Words, Vol. 3
Lovely, pointless, or both?
And So It Begins: 9 Words for Beginnings
Let's take it from the top.
Ten Painless Ways to Improve Your Vocabulary
Simple but Intelligent Word Choices
Galaxy Brain: 10 Words for Deep Thoughts
What's (another word for) the big idea?
Top 12 Sophisticated Compliments
'Urbane,' 'incisive,' and other good things to be
Great Big List of Beautiful and Useless Words, Vol. 1
Some may be more useful than others.
Your Favorite Band is in the Dictionary
10 bands you can look up and queue up
30 Ways to Tell the Future
Let us know if any of these work for you
Another Ten Ways to Improve Your Vocabulary
Simple But Intelligent Word Choices, Vol. 3
A Wicked Awesome List of New England Words
Things you may overhear when you park your car at Harvard Yard
9 Words That Sound Like Insults But Aren't
Get your mind into the gutter
10 Uncommon Emotional Words
Once more with (obscure) feeling
11 Bookish Words for Book Lovers
You'll enjoy these words more than a bibliotaph in a bookery.
9 More Words That Sound Like Insults But Aren't
How to tell your butoxy from your hawsehole
Even More Words That Sound Like Insults But Aren't
Get off your plum duff and check these out
From Auto-Tune to Zipper: Eight Products that Became Words
Va-va-vuvuzela
Ahoy! Ten Words for Talking Like a Pirate
Whether on International Talk Like a Pirate Day or any day!
9 Weird Words in Moby-Dick
All are great; one is offal
'Cattywampus' and Other Funny-Sounding Words
Feeling 'bumfuzzled' or have the 'collywobbles'?
The Longest Long Words List
21 words with 21 letters or more
12 Underrated Words That Deserve More Love
These are some good words
Words That are Their Own Opposites
Do I contradict myself?
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