The next words you're about to see aren't THAT long, but they're still long words that most people have never heard of. Do you know them, and if not - can you figure out their meaning and earn our enormous respect?
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Brobdingnagian
gigantic, from Brobdingnag, a country in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels
a rumbling or gurgling noise in the intestines
a drink of rum, sugar, water, and nutmeg
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Catoptromancy
a piece of waste paper produced by punching a hole
convulsive or involuntary movements made by delirious patients, such as plucking at the bedclothes
foretelling the future by means of a mirror
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Floccinaucinihilipilification
a kind of bagpipe played in northern Spain and Portugal
transient or fleeting
the action or habit of estimating something as worthless (a word generally only quoted as a curiosity)
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Prosopagnosia
an inability to recognize the faces of familiar people, typically as a result of brain damage
foggy, damp, and cold
a technical description of a stocky physique with a rounded body and head, thickset trunk, and a tendency to fat
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Sesquipedalian
(of a word) having many syllables or (of a piece of writing) using many long words
a hot, dry north-westerly wind that blows across the Persian Gulf in summer and causes sandstorms
a person in their teens or twenties who has an aptitude for using computers and the Internet
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Spaghettification
a protective box made in the form of a book, for holding items such as botanical specimens, maps, and colour plates
the process by which (in some theories) an object would be stretched and ripped apart by gravitational forces on falling into a black hole
a shrewd or unprincipled person
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Triskaidekaphobia
the hybrid off spring of a male tiger and a lioness (the offspring of a male lion and a tigress being a liger)
extreme superstition about the number thirteen
a wish or inclination which is not strong enough to lead one to take action
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Ecdysiast
a financial inducement or bribe
to set someone free from enslavement
a striptease performer
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Emmetropia
to enchant or fascinate someone
the normal condition of the eye: perfect vision
fondness for buying things
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Eucatastrophe
a happy ending to a story
outside or beyond the physical world
a small ornamental case for holding needles, cosmetics, and other articles
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Galligaskins
a type of loose breeches worn in the 16th and 17th centuries
extravagant boasting
dark and sombre in colour
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Incrassate
a person who performs karate
an imaginary illness
thickened in form or consistency
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