Mine is numerate! Isn't that a great word? When used as an adjective, it basically means to be literate with numbers. I just wish I could figure out how to use it, not being particularly numerate myself. (And when I remember whose blog I discovered that word on, I'll add a link.)
What's the new word you use -- or would like to use -- the most these days?

17 Comments
cooper
Written Mar. 5, 2008 / Report /
Mine is actually "vulpine". I know it is a pretty simple word, but I don't believe I've ever used it before, it means of or like a fox, crafty or cunning.
bloglily
Written Mar. 6, 2008 / Report /
OOO. Very nice, Cooper. Apparently, you are I are the geeky word people around here!
ryanarrowsmith
Written Mar. 6, 2008 / Report /
It's not a new word, but I've been saying "stymied" a lot more recently. It feels good to say.
Mike
Written Mar. 6, 2008 / Report /
I say nebulous a lot, not sure why.
chapstick
Written Mar. 6, 2008 / Report /
"Commonality" is my new favorite.
But for as long as I can remember, I've always liked the word "defenestrate". I like threatening people with that word. >:)
RightOn
Written Mar. 6, 2008 / Report /
It's not a COOL word or anything but I heard it on the radio on my way to work this morning.
Virga - an observable streak or shaft of precipitation that falls from a cloud but evaporates before reaching the ground.
I thought it was cool... :)
Kamigoroshi
Written Mar. 6, 2008 / Report /
"Affirm" is my new favourite word. Only because there is a lot of that in my research this year.
animejulie
Written Mar. 7, 2008 / Report /
Mine is "scoopulate." This is my most important job during lunch, when I portion out the rice from the rice cooker. I am the only person who can scoopulate in three equal servings, so when the rice cooker pops, I am ordered to quickly scoopulate the rice so we can eat our lunch and take a break from our work.
shadowsun7
Written Mar. 7, 2008 / Report /
Mine is encapsulate. No friggin idea why I like it so much, other than it has more than 3 syllables and sounds vaguely professional.
RightOn
Written Mar. 7, 2008 / Report /
I used Bifurcate the other day and my wife looked at me like I was from Mars.
I was bifurcating oranges people!
cooper
Written Mar. 7, 2008 / Report /
@ Right On
So "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" .
Ollie
Written Mar. 7, 2008 / Report /
Curmudgeon. It's such a horrible-sounding word, but oddly enough I've grown to quite like it.
darkmotion
Written Mar. 8, 2008 / Report /
I like prefixing adjectives with WAY to sound dorky sometimes when I am being sarcastic.
E.g. :
Oh wow sitting through that lecture was WAY cool.
This movie is WAY boring.
RightOn
Written Mar. 8, 2008 / Report /
I just finished proofing a friends application for a teaching job. Made him take out MATRICULATED as it was the ONLY $10 word in the whole app.
Cool yet "stuffy" word if you ask me :)
trevorlee_nc
Written Mar. 8, 2008 / Report /
clear out of the blue last saturday night (sunday morning really), I revived "jeepers"....and it's been stuck in my personal vocab since...
Clarkey
Written Mar. 8, 2008 / Report /
I dropped out a formulaic the other day when describing a book I had read. It drew a couple of "Ooh, get you" comments. Funny.
cooper
Written Mar. 8, 2008 / Report /
If you go to free rice you can test your word skills and give grains of rice at the same time.
I was 40/40 until I hit "bailey" which means "castle wall". Don't know how I can fit that into a conversation.