We all like to impress our friends, family and teachers with our knowledge of obscure words (OK, OK – some of us more than others). But there are words you almost certainly won’t have heard of.

Compiled by the folks at Raconteur, the list includes nouns, adjectives and verbs ranging from the reasonably well-known “flabbergast”, to more obscure words, including “quincunx ...

We all like to impress our friends, family and teachers with our knowledge of obscure words (OK, OK – some of us more than others). But there are words you almost certainly won’t have heard of.

And, thanks to the internet getting way more inventive, the creative, obscure, and downright bizarre terms just keep on coming. So, if you're looking for a new and original pet name for when the ...

Parsnip. Magnanimous. Sepulcher. This could be the beginning of a particularly esoteric New York TimesConnections puzzle, but ...

Once a relatively obscure term you might’ve last encountered ... The internet —TikTok in particular — has a habit of plucking words from obscurity, turning them into memes, and then ...