A list of 16 words by nkocharh.
- incipient appears on 98 other lists and has 1 comment
- innocuous appears on 140 other lists and has 1 comment
- bellicose appears on 155 other lists
- inflammable appears on 14 other lists and has 3 comments
- belie appears on 63 other lists and has 1 comment
- borborygmus appears on 88 other lists and has 7 comments
- crepuscule appears on 39 other lists and has 3 comments
- slatch appears on 11 other lists and has 2 comments
- comprise appears on 43 other lists and has 2 comments
- salubrious appears on 152 other lists and has 2 comments
- pulchritude appears on 227 other lists and has 20 comments
- gormless appears on 81 other lists and has 20 comments
- lassitude appears on 101 other lists
- formication appears on 34 other lists and has 3 comments
- niggardly appears on 45 other lists and has 8 comments
- vigorish appears on 14 other lists and has 2 comments
mollusque How about take the next exit? Jan 17, 2008
sionnach How about enormity, which has nothing to do with size? And noisome, which has nothing to do with noise? Then there are the old standbys: decimate and enervate.
Not to mention such intrinsically ambiguous locutions as bimonthly and biweekly, where roughly half the population will not interpret them the way you do.
But then, I've had problems with the apparently innocent term 'next Saturday'. Jan 16, 2008
reesetee And then there's penultimate. Nice list, nkocharh. Jan 16, 2008
kaulnalin The kick ass Princess Bride reference yet "Inconceivable" is nowhere to be found on the list? Inigo would be rather perturbed by that. Jan 16, 2008
slumry Your list is begging for the word fulsome! Jun 17, 2007
amydlite you should add the most common misuse of the word for more fun Dec 12, 2006
asativum What about "comprise"? Nobody gets that one right. Dec 12, 2006