XPost: alt.usage.english, alt.language.latin
On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 7:19:48 +0000, HenHanna wrote:
(excess: → nimiety)
(Nimious is not a word???) (i see Red squiggles)
Are there a few more-pompous (orotund) words for arcane, abstruse, esoteric, or sesquipedalian?
-------> recondite, prolix, turgid, ..., pedantic,
sophistic?
Is there an OnLine resource with a big Vocabulary. (for this type
of thing) ???
Two things i like about Nimious.
1. opposite of [Min]
2. Looks like it would be an easy vocab word, but it aint.
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Short (English) words that look easy , but actually not.
Wont (to), limn, litoral,
Sinecure, ambit, apian, doit, egest,
horal, randy, walla, otiose, ...
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“Nil sapientiae odiosius acumine nimio.”
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i remember... i was in an airplane and a guy
next to me was watching the Spanish ver. DVD of
[10 things i hate about you] in whch the verb for hate was Odio.
10 cosas que odio de ti
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