Perfectly good words insufficiently used.

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piezoe

The Society for Prevention of Word Death
is seeking nominations for good words too little used and in danger of falling into the archaic category in our dictionaries. We should make a serious effort to incorporate these fine words into our everyday lexicon.

My nominations for today are:

thingamajig
denouement
tenesmus -- very useful in its adj. form as in "What a tenesmal situation that was!"
rigamarole
impecunious
peripatetic
jingo -- as in "by jingo!", or in its original sense: "The Jingoes in Congress can't wait to start lobbing missiles across Assad's bow!"
jingoism -- if ever there was a word more appropriately applied to the U.S., I can't imagine what it would be.
gainsay
fictive -- there can be no more use adjective in the Politics and Religion Forum than "fictive."
gauche
hobnob
vex

Please add to the list as you see fit.
 
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

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Perhaps there are a few words we would all be better off without. Words that perhaps enjoyed a one-time use and now need to die. Example: "misunderestimate."
 
New words to nominate:

Majoretorially-to summarize a majority of,
Thusly- to be put, thus:

And for the subject of the thread:

rubicon
lexicon

I'll find a way to use these somehow one day.

And I looked at my girlfriend's kid's homework, they say there are only four types of sentence statements, declarative, imperative, interrogative, and exclamatory, where's pejorative? Does it fall under exclamatory or declarative?
 
"Rubicon," simultaneously both the first and "penultimate" word in your list, is a great word in that it saves many. I expect to hear it used in coming days with respect to the Syria situation. One might also say that we inadvertently crossed the "Rubicon" when we passed the War Powers Act.
 
I noticed juxtaposition made run through the news cycle a few years ago after I used it here in relation to the Obama chia pet.

Its too bad the word bogus developed a bogus reputation.

I would be happy to see the word gay used properly.
 
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