Awesome words and phrases to randomly start using!
- Hectoring.
- Chad (noun, plural also chad, as in "a pile of chad" - how interesting)
- Parataxic Distortion
- Paraprosdokian - a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to re-frame or re-interpret the first part. "Examples"
- A Shermanesque Statement
- Mendacious/Mendacity - lying
- Extrapolate
- Fratricidal/Fratricide - act of killing a brother
- Beffudlement
- Vexatious - intended to harass or be unnecessarily annoying
- Epexegetically - adding words for clarification within a text (epexegesis)
- Pollyanna - describes the tendency for people to agree with positive statements describing themselves.
- Myopic - short sightedness
- Hegemony - is the political, economic, ideological or cultural power exerted by a dominant group over other groups. It requires the consent of the majority to keep the dominant group in power.
- Voracious
- Recalcitrant - obstinate attitude toward authority
- Elide - to merge, or omit
- Lede - the opening of an article, first line or couple of lines
- Kicker - the last line of an article
"A good lede invites you to the party and a good kicker makes you wish you could stay longer"
- Bellicose - aggression and willingness to fight
- Brethren