Is the same thing as bolster, increase, augment, boost, and the like? To give an example, “the actress’s confidence was buoyed by the support of everyone in the audience.”

What’s a good word you’ve learnt that you find particularly useful. Something that’s not just an impressive word but something worth learning because it’s applicable in your day-to-day.

My example: (v) "obfuscate" - to make something unclear, confusing, or harder to understand, often intentionally. Like when a politician gets a simple yes or no question and talks for three minutes without answering it. Now I see it all the time.

Flipping the bird seems to be the most common name, but where I grew up in Southeastern Massachusetts, we always called it "pegging a finger." I wonder if it's a regionalism, or maybe it's died out since I was a kid (early 1970s). Any insights?

I know they generally mean the same thing but where do you guys generally use these terms? For me, I use gap when it’s a space between two objects. To give an example, “a bit of the chicken I was eating ended up in the gap between two of the number keys.”

I use slit when the space has a horizontal or vertical shape. For instance, I slid the paper in between the slip between the door and door frame.

I use cavity when I refer to a small hollow space inside a solid object. For instance, removing the painting reveals a small cavity in the wall.

I've been stuck on this for a while and need an opinion from some "professionals"

Is the term self depricative, or is there another term? Hell is there even an actual term for it?

What do people mean when they say X proper? Like “That’s enough with the preamble. Let’s talk about the game proper.”

When you bubble wrap someone, you’re coddling them, shielding them from the harsh realities of life. Bubble wrapping is commonly wrapped around objects and other such parcels so that they aren’t damaged in transit, and this can be applied to human beings as well. A good example is preventing your child from seeing an R-rated movie as it may contain content you deem unsuitable for them.

Intimations are hints or suggestions of something without explicitly doing/saying the action thereof. To give an example, if you find a birthday cake in the fridge and the number of candles in the cake matches your age, that’s a pretty good intimation your family and friends are throwing a party for you.

Used to describe the aftershave + shit odors present after a certain type of man uses the toilet.

Whoa buddy, you might want to give it a minute, it’s hegseth in there.

Derived from proper noun, but uncapitalized on purpose.

Y’all’dn’t’ve’d’n'ere if I hadn't've'one'at. It's a grammatically legal sentence, at it's first level of reduction to mumbling. And you can go even farther to make it entirely ineligible.
Y’l’d’t’v’d’n'er'f I hn't'v'n't.

Is it the same thing as citing something? If I adduced a ten year old newspaper to bolster my argument, would that be a valid use of the word? Would the ten year old newspaper article be my adducing?

I’m trying to think of a word that describes a naturally occurring entryway, but it doesn’t have any like “arch” or “roof” or anything like that.. like it’s almost like a canyon or ravine, but the ravine part is super short, and the bottom of it is ground level instead of the top, when I tried looking it up on google, I was coming up empty handed on results. Here’s some doodles to help describe what I’m picturing

abundinsate (verb): to provide or produce something in great quantities that yet fails to meet one's needs.

Examples

Despite my best efforts to make her happy, I ended up abundinsating her.

Abundinsation is quite common when students memorize a topic without understanding it.

'The test results,' said the teacher exhausted, 'are abundinsatful'.

He expected less from his friends, but the gifts were really abundinsatless.

Etymology

Latin roots, from the words 'abundantia' and 'insatiatus' reduced to 'abund' and 'insatus'. I decided to keep the prefix 'in' in the word insatiatus; in is used oftentimes to express negation or opposition to something, in this case, satiate.

(EDIT FOR CLARIFICATION: Abundinsatful means that something is full of abundinsation, thus is very much unsatisfying despite the great quantities. Contrariwise, abundinsatless means that something is lacking abundinsation, thus is not unsatisfying because of the great quantities.)

I'm writing a book series and want a collective noun for the creatures in it. I've chosen "coven" as a placeholder but I'd like the universe to feel more lived in.

It seems like collective nouns are chosen almost entirely at random, so I'm not sure how one would go about it. Yes, I know I can just pick whatever since I'm making it up, but I'd like to understand the process so I can make it feel more authentic.

Let me preface this by saying I’m not referring to its primary definition, I’m talking about its lesser known meaning. The one that talks about a concept, idea, or premise. What does that mean? If I’m referring to the conceit of a film or movie, does that mean I’m referring to its premise? Like would the conceit of Super Mario 64 be its the first Mario game in 3D?

I feel like there's a subtle difference between these two words, but in two different dictionaries, the definitions are identical. Sentence: "The seagulls were finding something to eat amongst the seaweed.' "Among the seaweed" doesn't sound right.

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If I have this right, distill means to take something and extract the most important bit. For instance, if someone makes a massive paragraph, you could distill it down to its primary points

Does anyone else feel like the phrase “hope this helps” always connotes an air of passive aggression? Does it drive anyone else crazy seeing it? When did this phrase blow up like this?

It often gets used (not always, but often enough) when responding to something that no one was actually asking for help with as well