Do You Know these English Words? - Odd English Words (Part 1/2)

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In the English language there are also odd, weird and not very common words. We present you below a list with some of these atypical words. It’s worth knowing these words as they are expressions that we use in our colloquial language.



The list is presented in a table with four columns: the Word, the Meaning (in English), the Form and an Example of Use (to see the word in context).

This first part includes the first 11 words from the list.

Table 1: Odd English Words (Part 1)

Word	Meaning	Form	Example of use
Behest	An urgent request	Noun	GM Chief to Resign at White House's Behest.
Bunkum	Empty, nonsense talk	Noun	The bunkum of Body Mass Index.
Contumely	Scornful or insulting treatment	Noun	Following years of police harassment and public contumely, he was arrested and charged with high treason and espionage.
To forgo	To give up	Verb	New Zealand Cricket has persuaded its six Indian Premier League players to agree contracts with the board and forgo "significant sums of money".
To Forego	Do without	Verb	Flu fear forces groom to forego nicety.
Grisly	Inspiring repugnance, gruesome	Adjective	The grisly murder was committed here.
Gristly	Composed of or containing gristle	Adjective	My son has a sore gristly lump behind his nipple.
Grizzly	A grizzly bear	Noun	The grizzly bear is a subspecies of brown bear.
To go haywire	Crazy, mad	Adjective	This period is just haywire time.
Hubris	Arrogance	Noun	There is no safety in unlimited technological hubris.
Jejune	Not interesting / Childish	Adjective	He was very surprised by their jejune responses to our problems.

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