Daily Vocab Questions Thread

[The Usual Student]

Yo guys,
Had a cool idea, lets start a vocab thread

Ever needed to come up with a word for an idea you want to express?
Ever needed to check if you are using a word properly?
Ever just needed some new words for outdated and boring ones?

Vocab is a big deal, and its hard to acquire a well developed colourful vocab. Not only do you need to know the words, but you need to be able to pull them out and use them properly and also find alternative words to express the same meaning once your initial word becomes overused. Considering this, I decided to make a general vocab thread so that everyone can help enrich their vocab together


Some of the ways you can use this thread
- Ask words for meanings you want to express? ( Eg, "anyone know a word for money hungry?")
- Ask for better words to replace boring words? ( "Whats a better word for "however"? ---> Conversely!)
- Ask if you are using the word right? ( How do I use the word "conflagration" properly?)
- Ask about grammar
- Ask about connotation
- general cool words you encountered

I will be adding my daily vocab words to the thread, feel free to add yours toooooo!!!

also if other mods are cool, can we stick this?

[The Usual Student]

lets start of

A cool new word to use
- COALESCE: means to come together

It is very useful especially when summarizing arguments, I use it in my conclusions to wrap up by statting how argument A and argument B coalesce to corroborate statement A.

[ayesha2011t]

Yo guys,
Had a cool idea, lets start a vocab thread

Ever needed to come up with a word for an idea you want to express?
Ever needed to check if you are using a word properly?
Ever just needed some new words for outdated and boring ones?

Vocab is a big deal, and its hard to acquire a well developed colourful vocab. Not only do you need to know the words, but you need to be able to pull them out and use them properly and also find alternative words to express the same meaning once your initial word becomes overused. Considering this, I decided to make a general vocab thread so that everyone can help enrich their vocab together


Some of the ways you can use this thread
- Ask words for meanings you want to express? ( Eg, "anyone know a word for money hungry?")
- Ask for better words to replace boring words? ( "Whats a better word for "however"? ---> Conversely!)
- Ask if you are using the word right? ( How do I use the word "conflagration" properly?)
- Ask about grammar
- Ask about connotation
- general cool words you encountered

I will be adding my daily vocab words to the thread, feel free to add yours toooooo!!!

also if other mods are cool, can we stick this?

Thanks so much for this thread the usual student! Desperately need these words

[clarke54321]

Thanks so much for this thread the usual student! Desperately need these words

Agreed. This is a fantastic thread! 

[The Usual Student]

a few good words i found today
- Garrulous : excessively talkative > very good word to replace like "chatty"
- salient : most important ( kinda like the word MAIN ) > replaces the word "main" or "core"

[FallingStar]

If someone is a drama queen/king, this person is Histrionic, yet if they are clam and collected, they are phlegmatic.

Perhaps if the tone of a language is very strongly critical, then it can be vitriol, if it's proud and scornful at the same time, it's supercilious.

You may attempt to act in an ostentatious manner, but that won't impress me. Please correct me if I'm wrong, as I think the word ostentatious means a kind of "show off" to impress people.

If you long for past, you are nostalgic.

Well... I don't think I used these words correctly.

But what a great idea for a thread Usual Student. Good for practising vocab.

[Joseph41]

Yep, great thread! I'll point out here, though, that as a general rule, it's much better (IMO) to use something like came together than coalesced. Fancy words and a large vocabulary are great for diversity and to use here and there, but essays absolutely littered with unusual words aren't impressive - they're just hard to read.

Brilliant thread - I just though I'd mention that!

- salient : most important ( kinda like the word MAIN ) > replaces the word "main" or "core"

Hahaha, I use salient (and pertinent) wayyyy too much in my essays. It's such a useful word, though.

[MightyBeh]

Sharing some, although they're not amazing
Capricious: Constantly changing.
Lament: Extreme sadness/grief.
Subordinate: Lesser than; often in rank. Also, superordinate
Suppliant: Ask for, sincerely.
Pragmatic: Practical conduct or logical thinking.
Dereliction: To neglect, negative connotations.

Examples

• Yesterday, she was happy to see me. Now she wants me dead. She's so capricious.
• It was my neighbour's lamentations that woke me up; his ATAR was only 99.90
• The pawn is subordinate to the queen in a game of chess.
• I supplicated to my teacher, but it was no use. I'm just too cool for school.
• She was surprised that her usually pragmatic father would suggest they eat the yellow snow. *
• It was his dereliction that landed him in this mess, so he can't complain.

* Probably not the most accurate usage.

[The Usual Student]

Sharing some, although they're not amazing
Capricious: Constantly changing.
Lament: Extreme sadness/grief.
Subordinate: Lesser than; often in rank. Also, superordinate
Suppliant: Ask for, sincerely.
Pragmatic: Practical conduct or logical thinking.
Dereliction: To neglect, negative connotations.

Examples

• Yesterday, she was happy to see me. Now she wants me dead. She's so capricious.
• It was my neighbour's lamentations that woke me up; his ATAR was only 99.90
• The pawn is subordinate to the queen in a game of chess.
• I supplicated to my teacher, but it was no use. I'm just too cool for school.
• She was surprised that her usually pragmatic father would suggest they eat the yellow snow. *
• It was his dereliction that landed him in this mess, so he can't complain.

* Probably not the most accurate usage.

I have always seen the word subordinate, but i have always been to lazy to google it
CHEERS!

Also, agnate = people related by male ancestors
enate = people related by female ancestors

They are pretty specific but useful terms

[Joseph41]

Another personal favourite is anodyne (an adjective).

"Not likely to cause offence or disagreement and somewhat dull".

[HopefulLawStudent]

I think this goes without saying but always make sure you're using a word in the right context before you start throwing it around. Because misuse of words, irrespective of how impressive that word sounds, won't guarantee you that 10/10 essay (if anything, I've found it tends to rub assessors the wrong way). Sometimes, the simple words are the best.

[The Usual Student]

I think this goes without saying but always make sure you're using a word in the right context before you start throwing it around. Because misuse of words, irrespective of how impressive that word sounds, won't guarantee you that 10/10 essay (if anything, I've found it tends to rub assessors the wrong way). Sometimes, the simple words are the best.

Agree 100%
Those fresh words, the ones you know but never use. Those are freaking great.

[Gogo14]

Accentuate= to emphasise
Partisan= Strong supporter of a party(i.e. Political party)
Heresy= Belief or opinion unorthadox
Unequivocal= Strong, certain, unambiguous

[The Usual Student]

corroborate = to provide evidence for or to validate
kinda like substantiate

[The Usual Student]

Anyone have any words to replace isolate? Or alienate?