As I am always trying to improve my English and learn new words, there will always be words I am more proud to know than others – Mostly all the long, more complicated words no one knows or uses.
I have collected some of the new words I have learned this year (I sound so much like a 5-year old doing 'Word of The Day'). I have not yet been in a conversation, where I have actually used any of the words, but maybe one day... Anyway, you can't have a too small vocabulary, can you?
Most of the words I have learned are from TV-shows (I watch way too much tv), where I am so used to not caring about what the individual words mean, because I get the context. Instead I started to pause the tv-show whenever I heard the word, just so I could look it up. I am so annoying, I walk around asking people if they know what the words mean, while knowing they will say no, just so I can tell them. I AM EXACTLY LIKE A 5 YEAR OLD WHO LEARNED TO TIE HER OWN SHOES JEEZ!
1,5 year ago I also made a blog post similar to this one called "English Words I Still Can't Spell", where I also explain the background of my English. I found it quite fun to read it again. It is a blog post I am very proud of and you can click HERE to check out the post and then come back and read this one!
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THE 8 NEW WORDS, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN!
I tend to make way too dramatic intros...
1. Facetious adjective
Meaning: To treat serious issues with deliberate inappropriate humour.
Where I learned it from: The episode of Doctor Who where people were dissapering, because a lonely alien had possessed a child. I sound like a complete maniac for watching tv-shows like that, but seriously watch it.
Origin: From the late 16th century. It derives from the French word: facétieux, from facétie, from the Latin word 'facetia' , which derives from facetus meaning ‘witty’.
2. Valiant adjective
Meaning: To possess or show courage or determination.
Where I learned it from: I really can't remember
Origin: Middle English from the Old French word 'vailant', based on the Latin 'valere' meaning ‘ to be strong’.
3. Sanctimonious adjective
Meaning: Showing to morally superior to other people.
Where I learned it from: The "WWJD"-episode of Netflix's Jessica Jones, I believe.
Origin: Early 17th century. The word derives from Latin the latin word 'sanctimonia' meaning ‘sanctity’, which derives from sanctus meaning ‘holy’.
4. Phlegmatic adjevtive
Okay wait, stop for a second... Why and how is this even a word???
Meaning: Meaning showing little emotion or being in an unemotional disposition
Where I learned it from: I think I read it in a poem, where word was just repeated through out the poem... Who writes poems with the word 'phlegmatic' in it? How can a word such as 'phlegmatic' be poetic??
Origin: Middle English. The word derives from the Old French word 'fleumatique', via Latin from the Greek 'phlegmatikos'.
5. Slander verb
Meaning: the act of making a false, negative spoken statement about someone.
Where I learned it from: The same Doctor Who episode, where I learned the word 'Facetious' from.
Origin: Middle English – The word derives from Old French 'esclandre' (I knew the French word, but not the English whut), alteration of escandle, from late Latin scandalum
6. Verisimilitude noun
7. Beacon noun
8. Indent noun
6. Verisimilitude noun
Meaning: Something that appears real or true to its form
Where I learned it from: Pinterest did this thing where I saw my entire dash twice, so the word 'verisimilitude was all over my screen four times and I was too curious to not wanting to look it up.
Origin: The early 17th century: from Latin verisimilitudo, which derives from the word 'verisimilis'.
7. Beacon noun
Meaning: a signal fire
Where I learned it from: My teacher kept saying it in class to that point, where I simply had to ask, because I wanted to know what word you could possible say so many times without explaining it.
Origin: Old English 'bēacn' of West Germanic origin meaning ‘sign, portent, ensign’.
8. Indent noun
Meaning: an official order
Where I learned it from: I read it somewhere on the amazing world wide web. I sound so old......
Origin: From the late Middle English: The word derives from the Anglo-Norman French word 'endenter' or the medieval Latin word indentare'.
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And there they were my 8 golden words for 2015. Will I ever use them, haha? I hope you enjoyed reading this blog post and maybe even learned a word or two :) Did you know any of the words already or have you ever used the words verbally? Let me know in the comments, beloooooow! Have a happy Wednesday everyone!
Love you all! xx
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