Whether you decide to add them to your final paper to add a little finesse or to try to trick your professor into thinking you’re smarter then you’ve been letting on all semester, we guarantee these words will galvanize you.
Apricity – (Noun) The warmth of the sun in the winter
What we experience about 8 months out of the year in cleveland.
Callipygian – (Adjective) Having a well-shaped buttocks
A.k.a. boys who go to yoga.
Divagate – (Verb) To ramble, digress, stray from subject to subject
Technique used by professors who then go on to give the hardest and most nitpicky finals.
Galvanize – (Verb) Inspire, or stimulate.
Felt after attending a particularly interesting (and completely compulsory) weeknight lecture.
Gadarene – (Adjective) Engaged in a reckless rush toward destruction.
My strategy for the end of this semester.
Aubade – (Noun ) A love song sung at dawn.
Not the same thing as blasting 1D after getting off Cabby at 4 am.
Orthorexia – (noun) An obsession with only eating healthy foods.
People who avoid the pizza station.
Lucubrate – (Noun) To work in artificial light.
Results in a pale, sickly complexion that comes from studying in the library for 16 hours straight.
Troglodyte – (noun) a cave-dweller.
That guy from you art history class who somehow ALWAYS knows what days the professor is going to give a pop quiz, and somehow always manages to come only on those days.
Meliorism – (noun) The belief that the world can be made better by human effort.
Or, the desire to go forth and set the world on fire.