The Jokes
Big Words

CIRCUMLOCUTION:

  1. The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.
  2. Evasion in speech or writing.
  3. A roundabout expression.
CONVIVIALITY: merry; festive.

ACCOUTREMENTS: accessories.

ANOMALISTIC: deviation or departure from the normal or common order, form, or rule; phenomenal.

PERFIDIOUSNESS: betrayal of a trust.

PARSIMONIOUS: frugal.

GASCONADING: to boast; to brag.

EXCOGITATE: to consider or think something out carefully and thoroughly.

UNENCUMBERED: free, not burdened with cares or responsibilities.

UNPARAGONED: having no paragon or equal; matchless; peerless.

PERSPICACIOUS: having or showing penetrating mental discernment; clear-sighted.

PROFICUOUS: profitable; advantageous; useful.

REMUNERATIVE: serving and providing profitability.

SAXICOLOUS: one who lives under a rock.

SESQUIPEDALIAN: one who uses big words.

PENULTIMATE: means second to last - as in LOSER.

ABECEDARIAN: A person who is learning the alphabet.

ABACINATE: To blind by putting a hot copper basin near someone's eyes.

AUTOTONSORIALIST: One who cuts their own hair.

BORBORYGMUS: The rumbling sound of gas passing through the intestine.

BRONTIDE: The low rumbling of distant thunder.

CAPERNOITED: Slightly intoxicated or tipsy.

DIPPOLDISM: The act of beating or whipping school children.

HIPPOPOTOMONSTROSESQUIPEDALIAN: Pertaining to extremely long words.

INTERFENESTRATION: The space between two windows.