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100 Words to Make You Sound Smart. Share. 100 words 15954 learners. Learn words with Flashcards and other activities. Full list of words from this list: words only definitions & notes. accolade. a tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction. acrimony. a rough and bitter manner. angst. an acute but unspecific feeling of anxiety. anomaly.
- Bonhomie
bonhomie: 1 n a disposition to be friendly and approachable...
- Equanimity
equanimity: 1 n steadiness of mind under stress Synonyms:...
- Teetotaler
teetotaler: 1 n a total abstainer Synonyms: teetotalist ,...
- Unrequited
unrequited: 1 adj not returned in kind Synonyms: unanswered...
- Bonhomie
Express yourself more elegantly and with aplomb by substituting basic, everyday words with these big words and synonyms to make you sound smarter.
- Perceptive: This word describes someone who is able to see and understand things that others might miss.
- Witty: A witty person is quick-thinking and clever. They often use humor to make their point.
- Insightful: Insightful people are able to see things in a new and insightful way. They have a deep understanding of the world around them.
- Curious: Curious people are always asking questions and seeking out new information. They are eager to learn more about the world around them.
- Ablocate
- Agelastic
- Aprication
- Brachylogical
- Buccula
- Calamistration
- Deosculation
- Decemnovenarian
- Echinate
- Éclaircissement
Dating from the 17th century, to ablocatesomething is to hire it out. For obvious reasons, it literally means “to put in a different place.”
Derived from a Greek word meaning “laughter,” someone who is agelasticliterally never laughs. Or, put another way, they’re extremely miserable.
The early lexicographer Henry Cockeram defined aprication as “a baking in the sun” in his 1623 English Dictionarie. Derived from a Latin word literally meaning “exposed,” it’s basically a fancy alternative to sunbathing.
Brachylogy is brevity of speech, which makes someone who is brachylogicala succinct, terse, straight-to-the-point speaker.
Instead of saying "double chin," say buccula. It sounds a lot more complimentary and literally means “little cheek.”
In Latin, a calamistrum was a curling iron, which makes calamistration the act or process of curling your hair and calamistrate—a word dating from the mid-1600s in English—the verb for precisely that.
They’re not the most romantic of words, but both osculation and deosculationare 17th-century words for kissing.
The word decemnovenarian is derivedfrom the Latin word for the number 19, and so literally means “characteristic of the 19th century”—or more loosely, “outdated” or “old-fashioned.”
Your hairbrush might be echinate, and so too might a hedgehog—for good reason. Although it’s usually used more generally of anything covered in prickly spikes or points, echinateliterally means “hedgehog-like.”
English has picked up some very smart-sounding words from French over the years, including the noun éclaircissement, which dates back to the late 1600s and has been used to mean “a clearing up of that which is obscure or unknown.” More generally, it's an enlightening explanation of something seemingly inexplicable.
Synonyms for INTELLIGENT: smart, clever, quick, brilliant, fast, exceptional, bright, sharp; Antonyms of INTELLIGENT: unintelligent, dumb, stupid, dense, simple, slow, mindless, brainless.
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- Some common synonyms of intelligent are alert, clever, and quick-witted. While all these words mean "mentally keen or quick," intelligent stresses...
- While in some cases nearly identical to intelligent, alert stresses quickness in perceiving and understanding. // alert to new technology
- Although the words clever and intelligent have much in common, clever implies native ability or aptness and sometimes suggests a lack of more subst...
- The words quick-witted and intelligent are synonyms, but do differ in nuance. Specifically, quick-witted implies promptness in finding answers in d...
Apr 5, 2016 · Here are 10 words and phrases that are extremely motivating--and later, seven words that definitely are not: 1. "If" -- improves performance when describing a hypothetical positive.
Oct 8, 2021 · Smart words. When we write or talk, most of us tend to use a lot of familiar, simple words to make communicating quick and easy.
