Unusual Words and Their Uses

[Brownlie]

I want to start using a better vocabulary in my everyday life, as well in the few works that I have started writing. That being said, I want this discussion board to contain any unusual words, their definition and pronounciation, and a sentence or two (with imagery and feeling) on how it could be used in creative writing. I want this to not only be inspiring to myself, but also to other writers, so please keep that in mind when posting.


I'll start this off:

Tacenda
english
origin: latin
(n.) things better left unsaid; matters to be passed over in silence
Pronounciation | ta-'chen-da

A Tacenda passed between us; a thousand words brimming at our tongues, yet each other knew better than to speak the million bitter truths that lie ahead.

Malapropism