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Obscure & Fun
Great Big List of Beautiful and Useless Words, Vol. 3
Lovely, pointless, or both?
17 of the Finest Words for Drinking
Try these out at your next happy hour
Dice, Dice, Baby: 8 Dungeons & Dragons Words
Chaotic and good, like English itself
Ahoy! Ten Words for Talking Like a Pirate
Whether on International Talk Like a Pirate Day or any day!
Galaxy Brain: 10 Words for Deep Thoughts
What's (another word for) the big idea?
12 Words from the Wrong Side of the Law
Crime doesn't pay, but vocabulary might
30 Ways to Tell the Future
Let us know if any of these work for you
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
Desiderium, and More Obscure Feeling Words
Think 'there are no words'? Think again.
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
9 Weird Words in Moby-Dick
All are great; one is offal
'Cattywampus' and Other Funny-Sounding Words
Feeling 'bumfuzzled' or have the 'collywobbles'?
12 Underrated Words That Deserve More Love
These are some good words
Words That are Their Own Opposites
Do I contradict myself?
What Is an Eggcorn?
And how did it get that name?
8 Words for the Necromantic in Your Life
Witchcraft, dark magic, and more
Words For Things You Didn't Know Have Names, Vol. 4
Sitzmarks! Jarkmen!! Pronking!!!
9 Irregular and Unpredictable Words
Get your pencil ready
13 Unusually Long English Words
Pulchritudinous and many more
Great Big List of Beautiful and Useless Words, Vol. 2
More great words, many quite pointless.
Uncanny, Preternatural Monsters
We bring you the strangest, most elusive beasts in the dictionary.
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