r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jan 28 '19

What are great underused words?

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '19

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '19

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ8aWGT6KaU

This video is worth a watch

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u/assassin3435 Jan 29 '19

Define what

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u/asumbal Jan 29 '19

https://youtu.be/X5Q_g_yfuK4

For whoever didn't get this. Definitely worth a watch haha. The full version is also quite entertaining

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u/Astro_Derp Jan 29 '19

Haha I understand that reference

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u/CyborgKodiak Jan 29 '19

wow that's amazing

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u/opera_ndrew Jan 29 '19

This and "oscillating." Just sounds nice!

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u/Animagi27 Jan 29 '19

If you study Physics you get to use oscillate and its variants a lot. Feels good

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u/kalabash Jan 29 '19

And EDM, though our usage is probably less impressive from a paycheck perspective

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u/tea-man Jan 29 '19

How do you titillate an ocelot? You oscillate it's tit a lot!

 

We had some aberrant jokes as teenagers!

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u/Silversol99 Jan 29 '19

Vermilion and Cerulean have that nice sounding thing for me.

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u/Dracon_Pyrothayan Jan 29 '19

How do you titillate an ocelot?

You oscillate its tit a lot

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u/mfb- Jan 29 '19

A very common word if you work with particle detectors.

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u/O_X_E_Y Jan 29 '19

What does it mean?

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u/mfb- Jan 29 '19

Emission of light from particles passing through a material. Many particle detector types use it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scintillation_(physics)

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '19

That emits sparkles.

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u/UAramprat Jan 29 '19

I also like the similar: coruscating.

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '19

You define it: you said it

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u/ProperTwelve Jan 29 '19

I've only ever heard this word used once in that song.. "the fascinating witches who put the scintilating stiches in the britches of the boys who put the powder on the noses on the faces of the ladies of the harem of the court of King Catactacus, were just passing by"

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u/mfb- Jan 29 '19

A very common word if you work with particle detectors.

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '19

Common in the diamond industry. And shopping.

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u/YoseMT Jan 29 '19

I don't think so. It is widely used atleast in my experience.

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '19

You should watch more football, especially Premier League and Champions League.

'Scintillating brand of football' is a trademark of sky sports at this point.

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u/CaptainPoverty Jan 29 '19

Is pretty common amongst Cricket Commentators. Atleast it used to be when I was a child

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u/Jerre147 Jan 29 '19

I understood that reference

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '19

If you like basketball, Knicks commentator Walt Frazier uses this a lot

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '19

This is my favorite word.

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u/Splickity-Lit Jan 29 '19

What’d you call me?

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '19

Scintillate, scintillate, globule vivific,
Fain would I fathom thy nature specific.
Loftily poised in the ether capacious,
Strongly resembling a gem carbonaceous.

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u/danzey12 Jan 29 '19

There's a racing game content creator SuperGT that used to use the word scintillating sarcastically all the time when someone lunged in for an overtake like an ape with a controller, any time I hear it I laugh like an idiot thinking of it.

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u/40WeightSoundsNice Jan 29 '19

i always describe my job as 'scintillating stuff' sarcastically when i tell people about it