So, I got sucked into dictionary.com when looking up the word "flummox," and scored a series of strange, made-up words that I will share:
(Here are the best of them:)
flumadiddle
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noun
1. utter nonsense.
2. worthless frills.
gimcrack
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noun
a showy, useless trifle;
gewgaw.
redivivus
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adjective
living again; revived
(Not as strange and made-up)
obfuscate
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verb (used with object)
1. to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
2. to make obscure or unclear:
to obfuscate a problem with extraneous information.
3. to darken.
From an
article about an
incredible photorealist artist (note the common medium and surface, charcoal on paper--amazing):
inveterate
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adjective
settled or confirmed in a habit, practice, feeling, or the like: an inveterate gambler.
From various poets, and the like:
insular
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adjective
1. of or pertaining to an island or islands:
insular possessions.
2. detached; standing alone; isolated.
3. narrow-minded or illiberal; provincial.
4.
Pathology, occurring in or characterized by one or more isolated spots, patches, or the like.
loam
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noun
1. a rich, friable soil containing a relatively equal mixture of sand and silt and a somewhat smaller proportion of clay.
2. a mixture of clay, sand, straw, etc., used in making molds for founding and in plastering walls, stopping holes, etc.
3. earth or soil.
demur
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verb
1. to make objection, esp. on the grounds of scruples; take exception; object.
fusty
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adjective
1. having a stale smell; moldy; musty:
fusty rooms that were in need of a good airing.
2. old-fashioned or out-of-date, as architecture, furnishings, or the like:
They still live in that fusty, gingerbread house.
3. stubbornly conservative or old-fashioned; fogyish
Not very useful, but nice:
synecdoche
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noun
a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special, as in
ten sail for
ten ships or
a Croesus for
a rich man.
Yes, that's all.
