Uncommon Words You Should Add to Your Vocabulary

Planning to expand your vocabulary? These uncommon words would be a good start-up for your word bank.

Here’s a short list of beautiful uncommon words that you can incorporate into your writing.

Apricate

Basking under the sun is such a run-down phrase. Here is an uncommon word that allows you to say that exact same phrase in a shorter and more elegant way.

-I’d like to apricate in an empty school field while sitting next to you.-

Accismus

If the term “pabebe” would be converted into a sophisticated single word, accismus would be perfect! To illustrate, it practically means beating around the bush about what one really feels. Hiding a feeling of excitement that cannot be hidden. 

-Her accismus was evident as she rejected the gift her lover was handing her.-

Verisimilitude

This is a more accurate way of naming a thing that is as close to reality as it gets. It is an appropriate word to describe any fiction work, particularly a movie that aims to make the imagined world seem real.

–He laced hints of verisimilitude to his lies which made them so believable.-

Limerence

If cray-cray in love would have a more polite term, Limerence is the word for it. It can also be applied to other contexts other than just romantic love for a person. It can also be used to describe an unhealthy desire for vices and other habits or things that has a chokehold on a person.

-He wouldn’t be special at all if not for the limerence I had for him.-

Hiraeth

Home for most people is a feeling instead of a place. And because it’s a non-corporeal thing, it, unfortunately, fades away. Hiraeth is a word that is used to describe the feeling of longing for a home that is found in what once was. What will never be, and sometimes, what never actually was?

-Her hiraeth for the past was strong for it was the only place in time where she felt safe.-

Which of these uncommon words would you consider your new favorite one?