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IF YOU DON'T KNOW THE DEFINITION ALREADY…: Sure, you could ask your wife or girlfriend why she's being so moody and unpredictable. Or you take a safer tactic, and use a word that isn't quite so negatively loaded.

EXAMPLE: "You seem a little capricious tonight, dear, is everything okay?"

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IF YOU DON'T KNOW THE DEFINITION ALREADY…: Evil is just evil, but when it goes the extra mile into Bond villain territory, that's when it becomes nefarious.

EXAMPLE: "The way he runs his business, it's just so… nefarious."

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IF YOU DON'T KNOW THE DEFINITION ALREADY…: You could say "That stuff is everywhere," and you'd probably be understood. But then you're missing all the fun of language. A word like "ubiquitous" communicates the same idea, but it's the deep-dish pizza of vocabulary. You have to eat it with a fork. (Officially, it means: "found everywhere.")

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IF YOU DON'T KNOW THE DEFINITION ALREADY…: It just sounds like something a Looney Tunes character would say—but it's actually a legitimate word, meaning "to leave hurriedly." Originally derived from the Spanish word vamos, which means "let's go," modern usage takes it up a notch: When it's time to vamoose, danger is probably imminent.

EXAMPLE: "I don't know how a mountain lion got in the room either, but we'll talk about it later. Vamoose, man, vamoose!"

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IF YOU DON'T KNOW THE DEFINITION ALREADY…: It's when the subject in a conversation gets changed without warning, usually abruptly. It's a nice way of saying, "Have you even been listening to me?" Its Latin translation, literally: "it does not follow."

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IF YOU DON'T KNOW THE DEFINITION ALREADY…: Can you imagine how much more fun Twitter fights would be if people responded to insults that hurt their feelings with, "Dear sir, I take umbrage to that comment?" Yes, it means "offense" or "annoyance."

EXAMPLE: "I know you're just an Internet troll with no sense of right or wrong, but you didn't have to cause me so much umbrage."

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IF YOU DON'T KNOW THE DEFINITION ALREADY…: You can't put your finger on it, but something about the way that guy is talking sounds completely insincere. He thinks he has all the solutions, but he's just blowing smoke.

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IF YOU DON'T KNOW THE DEFINITION ALREADY…: You've got a serious case of the feels, but you're not sure how to talk about it without saying "the feels"? Try this tasty word, which means you're so overcome with emotion that you're practically trembling.

EXAMPLE: "Am I excited for the new Star Wars sequel? I'm aquiver with excitement!

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IF YOU DON'T KNOW THE DEFINITION ALREADY…: It's the feeling you get when you're simultaneously bored and annoyed. You were expecting more, but you got… this? You're not depressed exactly, but you'd definitely rather be anywhere but here. (If you're in one of the 50 cities with the worst singles scenes in America, you probably know the feeling.)

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