[wel-ter] An audio pronunciation can be found here I think this comes from a German word meaning “to roll or twist” Source submitted by fireeyed-girl Follow for more rare and uncommon words
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[uhl-truh-krep-i-dair-ee-uhn] I suggest you read the etymology because it’s really cool. “The Latin writer Pliny recorded that Apelles, the famous Greek painter who was a contemporary of Alexander the Great, would put his pictures where the public could see them and then stand out of sight so he could listen to their comments. A shoemaker once faulted the painter for a sandal with one loop too few, which Apelles corrected. The shoemaker, emboldened by this acceptance of his views, then criticised the subject’s leg. To this Apelles is reported as replying (no doubt with expletives deleted) that the shoemaker should not judge beyond his sandals, in other words that critics should only comment on matters they know something about. In modern English, we might say “the cobbler should stick to his last”, a proverb that comes from the same incident. (A last is a shoemaker’s pattern, ultimately from a Germanic root meaning to follow a track, hence footstep.) What Pliny actually wrote was ne supra crepidam judicaret, where crepidam is a sandal or the sole of a shoe, but the idea has been expressed in several ways in Latin tags, such as Ne sutor ultra crepidam (sutor means “cobbler”, a word still known in Scotland in the spelling souter). The best-known version is the abbreviated tag ultra crepidam, “beyond the sole”, from which Hazlitt formed ultracrepidarian. Crepidam derives from Greek krepis, a shoe; it has no link with words like decrepit orcrepitation (which are from Latin crepare, to creak, rattle, or make a noise) orcrepuscular (from the Latin word for twilight), though crepidarian is a very rare adjective meaning “pertaining to a shoemaker”. ” - worldwidewords.org Source submitted by fireeyed-girl Follow for more rare and uncommon words
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[tar-uhn-tiz-uhm] An audio pronunciation can be found here “The term tarantella groups a number of different folk dances characterized by a fast upbeat tempo … In the Italian Taranto, Apulia, the bite of a locally common type of wolf spider [the tarantula] , named “tarantula” after the region, was popularly believed to be highly poisonous and to lead to a hysterical condition known as tarantism ... The stated belief of the time was that victims needed to engage in frenzied dancing to prevent death from tarantism. ” - Wikipedia Source submitted by fireeyed-girl Follow for more rare and uncommon words
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[rekəmˈbentə̇bəs] “Recumbent” means falling or laying down and “-ibus” is a common dative ending in Latin Source submitted by fireeyed-girl Follow for more rare and uncommon words
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This was my favorite word when I was about ten or so :) Favorite word submitted by pippipadoodlydoo Follow for more rare and uncommon words
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This is sort of obvious but I like it regardless From a book called “The Indispensable Dictionary Unusual Words” by Josefa Heifetz Bryme Follow for more rare and uncommon words
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Follow for more rare and uncommon words Found on the dictionary.com app
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Follow for more rare and uncommon words Favorite word submitted by casioclark
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I really love this one The definition is stated so eloquently Follow for more rare and uncommon words Favorite word submitted by teafish
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Follow for more rare and uncommon words Favorite word submitted by unnireul 
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Follow for more rare and uncommon words Submitted by evolutional 
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Follow for more rare and uncommon words Credit to my Latin teacher \m/
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Follow for more rare and uncommon words Credit to my Latin teacher because he’s awesome
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