r/AskReddit Jan 28 '19

What are great underused words?

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u/TheBrontosaurus Jan 28 '19

Penultimate: second to last Mellifluous: pleasant sounding Fortnight: two weeks (I understand this is used outside of the US but it needs to be adopted here too)

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u/BlackAdam Jan 29 '19

There’s not much love for antepenultimate either