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• revengeance commented on the list words-to-try-to-use-in-colloquial-speech-without-sounding-like-a-pretentious-ass

  There are literally pretentious as hell haha

  August 6, 2021

• revengeance commented on the word mesmeric

  Perhaps this word came to be thanks to Mesmer, the 18th century scientist who studied magnetism and mysticism?

  November 24, 2015

• revengeance commented on the word edict

  "HERMIA: If then true lovers have been ever crossed

  It stands as an edict in destiny."

  From Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'

  January 12, 2012

• revengeance commented on the word misgraffed

  It means 'badly matched' and is used by Shakespeare in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'

  "LYSANDER: Or else misgraffed in respect of years -"

  January 12, 2012

• revengeance commented on the word aught

  "LYSANDER: Ay me! For aught that I could ever read,

  Could ever hear by tale or history,

  The course of true love never did run smooth;

  But either it was different in blood -"

  William Shakespeare, 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'

  January 12, 2012

• revengeance commented on the word vantage

  "LYSANDER: I am, my lord, as well derived as he,

  As well possessed. My love is more than his,

  My fortunes every way as fairly ranked -

  If not with vantage - as Demetrius'."

  - William Shakespeare, 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' :)

  January 12, 2012

• revengeance commented on the word phantasmagoria

  I have mostly phantasmagoric dreams...

  December 11, 2011