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English Words on the Endangered List →
julieannpaladin:frannyandzooey:xyzprincess:noraleah:
Words not in common use — or even uncommon use — embrangle us. They make us feel lost in caduicity, perhaps even oppugnant with our ignorance.
But in my humble, multiple-English degree opinion, they don’t deserve a fate so niddering as to be tossed out like recrement! Must we vilipend them simply because we do not understand them? (And please note, dear readers, I speak not only from indignant muliebrity! Although there is that.)
Thankfully, a campaign in the UK vaticinates a reversal of the malison of these rare words.
Won’t you do your part? Bring these words forth like a periapt for the agrestic masses? I think you shall find the use of them abstergent for olid modern life.
The list of words that Collins dictionary compilers have threatened to leave out of their next edition if they do not stage a dramatic comeback include:
Abstergent Cleansing or scouring
Agrestic Rural; rustic; unpolished; uncouth
Apodeictic Unquestionably true by virtue of demonstration
Caducity Perishableness; senility
Caliginosity Dimness; darkness
Compossible Possible in coexistence with something else
Embrangle To confuse or entangle
Exuviate To shed (a skin or similar outer covering)
Fatidical Prophetic
Fubsy Short and stout; squat
Griseous Streaked or mixed with grey; somewhat grey
Malison A curse
Mansuetude Gentleness or mildness
Muliebrity The condition of being a woman
Niddering Cowardly
Nitid Bright; glistening
Olid Foul-smelling
Oppugnant Combative, antagonistic or contrary
Periapt A charm or amulet
Recrement Waste matter; refuse; dross
Roborant Tending to fortify or increase strength
Skirr A whirring or grating sound, as of the wings of birds in flight
Vaticinate To foretell; prophesy
Vilipend To treat or regard with contempt
