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35 rare words (that you will want to include in your vocabulary)

Sometimes we want to explain moments, situations, feelings or emotions, but we can't find the right words to describe them, in some cases because we think they are rare words that do not exist.

At other times, we listen in movies, conferences, series or simply in conversations beautiful words we've never heard before much less did we know their great meaning, but that, being rare words, we do not remember them so easily.

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35 weird words that you won't be able to stop repeating

This is why we have prepared this list of rare Spanish words full of meaningWhen you meet them, you will see how they will help you describe all kinds of situations and emotions that you did not know how to name before.

Some are rare words very beautiful to write and pronounce, others a bit strange even in their meaning, but all of them are here for you to renew your vocabulary and surprise more than one when they you use. Also, all of them are accepted and appear in the RAE (Real academy of the Spanish language).

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1. Lit up

Acendrado is a word you can use to describe something ‘pure. Without blemish or blemish. '

2. Gesture

Surely you have noticed that people have certain movements of their own with which we express ourselves. This movement is called gesture and the RAE defines it as "movement or attitude of the body or of some part of it with which disposition, intention or feeling is manifested."

3. Agibílibus

Is weird word is a bit complicated to pronounce, but once you achieve it, you will want to use it to describe the odd person you know. Agibílibus or agilíbus is what a person has, the ‘ability, ingenuity, sometimes mischievous, to function in life’.

4. Pamper

Apapachar is the act of giving a hug to someone, that is, of giving an affectionate pat or hug, according to the RAE. However, apapachar is a strange and absolutely beautiful word when we learn it under its Nahuatl roots, where the word used is papachoa and in its process of Castilianization it was transformed into cuddling and cuddling in the act of ‘caressing the soul'.

5. Flush

Exists a strange word to describe the effect of light on clouds. This is red and it is about 'when the clouds turn red when illuminated by the sun's rays'.

6. Ataraxia

Ataraxia is used to define 'imperturbability, serenity'.

7. Barbian

If someone describes you as a barbian woman, take it as a compliment, as the meaning of this word has nothing to do with barbarian or bearded. Barbián is an adjective that is used to describe a person who is "outgoing, dashing, daring."

8. Jeer

Drinking means making fun of someone. It is an onomatopoeic word, according to philologists.

9. Bonhomie

A rare and different word that is defined as "affability, simplicity, kindness and honesty in character and behavior." It comes from a contraction of "good" and "man".

10. Cagaprisas

What if, this strange word seems like a malformation of language, but nevertheless it is part of Spanish and is accepted by the RAE. Cagaprisas, as it goes without saying, describes a person who is impatient, who is always in a hurry.

11. Cloudscape

When the sky has clouds of different textures, forming a colorful horizon, we can use the word cloudscape.

12. Conflict

Conflict refers to the act of causing a conflict in something or someone. It is one of the rare words derived from the particular use of other words and accepted a few years ago by the RAE. Its meaning is also that of ‘suffering an internal conflict or concern that can condition their behavior’ when it is oneself who speaks of conflict.

13. Eloquence

Eloquence describes "the art of speaking effectively to delight or move." As long as you use and integrate this list of weird words, someone will be able to describe you as an eloquent girl.

14. Epiphany

This is what happens to us when we have "a moment of surprising revelation."

15. Euroscepticism

A new word that has emerged due to the crisis The economic and political economy of recent years in Europe is ‘Euroscepticism’. The RAE defines this word as "mistrust towards the political projects of the European Union."

16. Ineffable

This is the word you have to use when you need an adjective to refer to something that is so incredible "that it cannot be explained in words."

17. Unfading

This is a rare word that you can use when you are describing something that cannot wither.

18. Isagoge

Isagoge is a strange word that we can use to refer to the preamble part, to the introduction, although probably no one but you will understand it.

19. Limerence

This rare word will enchant the most romantics. Limitation: involuntary mental state, typical of the romantic attraction by one person to another.

20. Mellifluous

Another beautiful word that you can refer to as 'an excessively sweet, soft or delicate sound'.

21. Mondo

You can use this beautiful word to describe something that is 'clean and free of added or superfluous things'.

22. Nefelibata

Do you have a friend that for you, she always lives dreaming in the clouds? Well, this is the strange word to describe it: nefelibata, ‘said of a dreamer who does not realize reality’.

23. Ochavo

It means one-eighth, although it is often used to indicate that something has little value.

24. Madman

We also show you a new word to refer to that person who has lost his mind: pray. The RAE defines her as a ‘person of little judgment, moderation and prudence’.

25. Perennial

A strange word to describe something ‘continuous, incessant, that has no intermission’.

26. Petricor

You remember the smell of "wet earth", well, petricor is a strange word to describe this smell. "It is the name given to the smell that the rain produces when it falls on dry soils."

27. Resilience

This is one of the words you've probably ever heard but you don't really know its meaning. Resilience is "the ability of a living being to adapt to a disturbing agent or an adverse state or situation." A very important characteristic that people can develop.

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28. Knowledge

It is a disused word synonymous with "flavor", although another meaning would be to refer to a joke or joke.

29. Everlasting

An adjective that the RAE defines as something ‘that will last forever; which, having had a beginning, will have no end. '

30. Serendipity

Something spectacular that can happen to all of us is serendipity. This rare word is the ‘lucky and unexpected find that occurs when you are looking for something else’.

31. Sleepwalker

Another of the words known to some and not known to others is sleepwalking and is used to refer to 'a person who walks in sleep'.

32. Superfluous

For some a strange word, for others much more common; superfluous is an adjective to refer to something not necessary, which is unnecessary.

33. Uebos

You might think that it is a terrible spelling to write the word ‘eggs’, but the truth is that ‘uebos’ exists and that is why it is part of this list of rare words. Uebos means need, a necessary thing according to the RAE, and comes from the Latin opus. When you refer to the expression “send eggs”, the correct way to write it would be “send uebos”, since it comes from the Latin ‘Mandat opus!’ Which translates ‘Necessity obliges!’

34. Tramp

One of the rare words accepted a few years ago by the RAE which is derived from the previously used word 'vagabond'. Vagamundo describes that traveling person, who goes from one place to another in the world, wandering and without a fixed address.

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35. Vulpine

Vulpino is used to designate what refers to foxes. And, in fact, the Latin word Vulpes means, precisely, fox.

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