So being the nerd that I am, I often find myself reading a lot of books. I love reading, and I can just never seem to get enough! I may be what you call a bibliophile: a person who loves or collects books, especially as examples of fine or unusual printing, binding, or the like. So naturally when I write papers or things of that nature, I always refer to dictionary.reference.com for any and all misspellings. After having done this for years now, I finally realized that there was this tool/tab that let me see approxiamtely how many words I knew! Naturally I was ecstatic. So I tried it out and here's what I found out: at 19 years of age Iknow approximately 42,083 words total!! How cool is that?!

     Now I know what y'all might be thinking, "Wow, this chick's a total word whiz and a flat out NERD!!" And you'd all be correct. But this isn't the part that makes me think this is awesome, no the awesome part in my opinion is that it got me thinking about funky words. So here's a list I have compiled of words not often found in one's repertoire of knowledge, and let's see how many you know!!

• Affable
• Assuage
• Austere
• Burnish
• Dearth
• Ebullient
• Garrulous
• Hyperbole
• Irascible
• Mitigate
• Nomenclature
• Phlegmatic
• Plethora
• Quixotic
• Ribald
• Taciturn
• Urbane