Do you know these verbs?

The English language is filled with many unusual words and phrases that we don’t use. These words are still useful and true to their meanings. Here is a collection of verbs that you can use to describe your actions. Maybe you’ll find use for these words in your everyday life!

Bibble

To eat and/or drink noisily. If someone bibbles it may annoy you, or maybe you bibble if you are eating in a hurry. Either way, this word is relatable - and we come across this action regularly!

Impignorate

To pledge, pawn, or mortgage. We don’t usually use this word and it may just be because there are easier options available! To impignorate essentially means to put something up for security and to pawn it. You can always try to throw it into a sentence in a relevant situation!

Obambulate

You may do this during a weekend stroll or when you are occupied with your thoughts. To obambulate means to wander or to walk around aimlessly.

Absquatulate

To absquatulate means to leave abruptly or in a hurry. This can be when you’re caught in an awkward situation and want to escape from it or when someone is fleeing from danger. The word itself is quite a tongue twister though!

Disembogue

This can be said of a river or a stream if it emerges or is discharged into the sea or a larger river. We don’t really see how this will be applied in an average person’s typical life, but remember it if you go on a sailing holiday or cruise!

Ensorcell

Ensorcell can mean to enchant, fascinate or bewitch. This is a fun word to use in creative writing to further describe something or someone that is under a spell or even in everyday life to describe someone that is really fascinated with something!

Obnubilate

This means to obscure or to shadow something, to darken or cover it as if with a cloud. This can be used literally to describe covering something or figuratively to describe a person’s views and the illusions they have.

Succuss

This means to shake (a solution) vigorously. If you come across “succuss” in instructions when mixing cleaning supplies at home, you’ll now know what it means!

Prevaricate

Prevaricate means to speak or act in an evasive way or to deviate from answering a question. Someone may seem to prevaricate from answering a question if they don’t want to tell you the truth or if they don’t want to give specific answers.

Grok

This is our favourite verb on this list! Grok means to understand something intuitively or by empathy. Teachers quickly grok how to describe a concept so that learners understand it in no time.

We hope you get a chance to use these verbs in conversations or when writing. We believe it’s important to seek life-long learning and improvement of the English language when either teaching or learning it.