PRACTICE YOUR ENGLISH

Do you know the English words that make the triple S (SSS)? Scrumptious, Sequacious and Swingeing. Pretty uncommon words, aren’t they? It might even be the first time that you’ve heard them.



In this post we present you with the rest of the collection of strange English words that completes the list of “Odd English Words”.

As we usually do, we present the list in a table with four columns: the Word, the Meaning (in English), the Form and an Example of Use (to see the word in context).

This second part includes the last 12 words from the list:

Table 1: Odd English Words (Part 2)

Word	Meaning	Form	Example of use
To Loathe	To dislike (someone or something) greatly	Verb	She loathes men who smoke.
A moot point	Something irrelevant / A point or question to be debated	Noun	Until we rebuild downtown, whether we build more parking spaces is a moot point.
Potation	The act of drinking / A drink, usually alcoholic	Noun	Perhaps his nocturnal potations, prevented him from recognising accents which were tolerably familiar to him.
To quash	To put down or suppress forcibly and completely	Verb	The general ruthlessly quashed all opposition.
To rarefy	To make thin, less compact, or less dense	Verb	The bones are rarefied.
Scrumptious	Delicious or very attractive	Adjective	My grandmother does really scrumptious cakes.
Sequacious	Slavishly unthinking and uncritical	Adjective	Sequacious media is bad for democracy.
Swingeing	Severe; punishingly bad	Adjective	BBC newsreaders face swingeing salary cuts.
Tawdry	Cheap, showy, and of poor quality	Adjective	Those are tawdry Christmas decorations.
To be on tenterhooks	To be uncertain and anxious about what is going to happen	Verb	He was on tenterhooks about the result of the exam.
Tinker’s cuss	To be uninterested in something	Noun	I don’t give a tinker’s cuss if it rains all weekend.
To Villify	To make vicious and defamatory statements about	Verb	The Nazi propaganda villified the Jews.