15 Obscure Words
1. Omphaloskepsis: meditation while gazing at one’s navel.
2. Pickedevant: a Van Dyke beard.
3. Malneirophrenia: depression following a nightmare.
4. Lissotrichous: having straight hair.
5. Junkettaceous: frivolous, worthless.
6. Sinciput: the forehead.
7. Whigmaleery: a knickknack or a geegaw; a whim.
8. Cuggermugger: whispered gossiping.
9. Goubemouche: a gullible person (literally, one who swallows flies).
10. Kakkorhaphiophobia: fear of failure.
11. Nibby-jibby: narrow margin; a close call.
12. Anaphalantiasis: the falling out of the eyebrows.
13. Quakebuttock: a coward.
14. Humdudgeon: an imaginary illness or pain; a loud complaint about nothing.
15. Floccinaucinihilipilification: the categorizing of something as worthless trivia.
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