30 words

The 20th of 30 lists of 30 things

I sifted through my highschool dictionary and found 30 words that I have either never heard of or just don’t see or hear being used very often, if at all. The last 3 letters of the alphabet were a bit tricky, I knew all the words and just had to pick the least used one. I didn’t include words that were names of birds, tools, instruments etc, or adopted from a foreign language. Thus all these words are ones we might use in everyday language if only everyone knew them.

1. Ambit
2. Animadvert
3. Busman’s holiday
4. Capitation
5. Collocate
6. Dipsomania
7. Equipoise
8. Fulminate
9. Gimcrack
10. Hobbledehoy
11. Hegemony
12. Ibidem
13. Jammy
14. Kirtle
15. Literateur
16. Mendicant
17. Nonce
18. Overweening
19. Percipient
20. Quietus
21. Recrudescence
22. Sententious
23. Threnody
24. Timorous
25. Uxorious
26. Valetudinarian
27. Wilco
28. Xerox
29. Yammer
30. Zeitgeist