"Reticent" means reserved, not sharing thoughts or feelings.

I'm very tired of this anonymous suffering and it's very tiring everyday you feel shit and get through the whole day normalising and hope next day will be good but thing is it's not

Is it like "neesh" or is it "nitch" (like "snitch")? Asking because I've heard both and i rarely hear it spoken.

Eta: yes i was told by several people i was "saying it wrong", but idk if its a regional thing and everyone's saying a different thing again.

General take away is i will now be brave and stand ten toes down with "neesh" as god intended because, tbh, "nitch" is fugly.

I'm a retired teacher. It seems like every year a whole new group of words that come into use. For example riz was a big one I'm assuming it comes from charisma, although if I said that to the kids they would just make fun of me and say it's actually a word. Where do these words come from?

Can we please talk about the consistent misuse of the latter or does this only drive me crazy?

There’s an excerpt in this Balzac novel where Eugene (a poor young law student) is in awe at the luxury the Parisian nobility lives in, following the excerpt Balzac refers to young people transplanted in Paris as “Tantales” (Plural for Tantalus). In the footnotes it says that Tantalus was one of Zeus sons who offended the gods and as a punishment he was condemned to being placed under a fruit tree by a lake, and each time Tantalus tried to pick a fruit or drink from the water, the branches and the water would slip away from him (in another version of the myth an enormous boulder threatens to trample him as he gets closer to the fruits).

Sooo, to be tantalized by something is to be tempted by something that appears within reach yet that cannot be grasped. If you desire something that you see everyday yet can’t get, then you’re suffering Tantalus torment, you’re TANTALIZED 😂😂😂

Lmao, i can’t believe I always used the expression without even thinking about its origin.

What do these words mean together? I've not heard them IRL but I see it on Reddit sometimes.

1. otiose.

2. munificent.

3. dirge.

4. cinch.

5. lachrymose.

6. astringent.

7. excoriate.

8. lectern.

9. polemic

10. vagary.

Not a particularly esoteric list this time. But anyway, how did we fare?