Random words of the English language

We generally tend to use the same words over and over in our everyday lives and conversations. Why not add some random English words to your vocabulary?

We’ve gathered twenty random English words along with their definitions for your enjoyment.

1.    Yegg

A word that refers to a safe-breaker, or a burglar of safes.

2.    Obscurantism

The practice of withholding knowledge, or deliberately preventing the facts or full details to be known to the public.

3.    Oust

When one has been removed or expelled from a position or place.

4.    Revolt

Take action or rise up against an established government or authority.

5.    Ecstasy

No, not the drug! It’s an overwhelming feeling of great happiness or joyful excitement.

Well, it’s kind of like the drug…

6.    Effeminate

A man that has characteristics regarded as typical for a woman, or when he has unmanly behaviour.

7.    Pendulum

It’s a weight hung from a fixed point so that it can swing freely, especially a rod with a weight at the end that regulates the mechanism of a clock.

8.    Pretoria

A city in South Africa.

(It doesn’t get anymore random than this guys).

9.     Mountebank

A person who tricks others out of their money, a deceiver.

10. Felicitous:

When something is well-chosen or suited to the circumstances.

11. Anarchy

A state of disorder due to absence or non-recognition of authority or other controlling systems.

12. Lubberly

Big and clumsy or unskilled.

13. Doohickey

A word used when the speaker can’t recall the name of a small gadget or object.

14. Fracas

A noisy disturbance.

15. Juggernaut

Any huge/large powerful or overwhelming destructive force. Like a Rugby team or battle ship.

16. Bedlam

A scene or state of uproar and confusion.

17. Dipthong

A sound formed by the combination of two vowels in a single syllable, in which the sound begins as one vowel and moves toward another.

18. Calamity

An event causing great misfortune or sudden damage – a disaster.

19. Cryptozoology

The study and search of animals whose existence has remained unproven, like the Loch Ness monster or the Yeti.

20. Guffaw

This word is literally the meaning of LOL (A loud, unrestrained burst of laughter).

You probably won’t use all of these words in your everyday life and you may already know a fair few – but we hope you enjoyed our pick of lesser-used words!