I was watching Walking Dead season 2 and one of the characters used a word that I hadn't heard before. Anyone recently run across odd words that aren't normally used?

ca·thar·sis
kəˈTHärsis/
noun
noun: catharsis; plural noun: catharses

1.
the process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions.

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"BOY: On a hot summer night, would you offer your throat to the wolf with the red roses? GIRL: Will he offer me his mouth? BOY: Yes. GIRL: Will he offer me his teeth? BOY: Yes. GIRL: Will he offer me his jaws? BOY: Yes. GIRL: Will he offer me his hunger? BOY: Yes. GIRL: Again, will he offer me his hunger? BOY: Yes! GIRL: Yes. BOY: On a hot summer night, would you offer your throat to the wolf with the red roses? GIRL: Yes. BOY: I bet you say that to all the boys!" -Meatloaf

There is this phrase I don't hear used enough-







































Yes ma'am, may I have another?



or


Yes, your majesty

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Not quite what I meant Oh Mistress.

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"BOY: On a hot summer night, would you offer your throat to the wolf with the red roses? GIRL: Will he offer me his mouth? BOY: Yes. GIRL: Will he offer me his teeth? BOY: Yes. GIRL: Will he offer me his jaws? BOY: Yes. GIRL: Will he offer me his hunger? BOY: Yes. GIRL: Again, will he offer me his hunger? BOY: Yes! GIRL: Yes. BOY: On a hot summer night, would you offer your throat to the wolf with the red roses? GIRL: Yes. BOY: I bet you say that to all the boys!" -Meatloaf

It's usually used as "I found the experience cathartic".

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Right. Like this "A beating from Lilith proved to be very cathartic" or " I found a beating from Lilith to be a catharsis."

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The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give orders better from there.~ Betty Grable

If I wanted your opinion, I'd remove the duct tape and ask you for it.~ Me
<~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~>
One man's dream is another man's nightmare~~~~> §¤ Lilith ¤§
~>My Scribbles<~
==>Gone Shopping<== ~Just a Quickie~ *~A Celebration Vacation~* ~Surprises~ Sleeping With the Window Open
What Did You Do Today? Self Defense Class ~Short Sweet Snippets~ § Summer Spin § Story Challenge Submission Pajamas

Exactly! I could travel from the antarctic to the arctic and find nothing so cathartic.

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An encounter with a "strumpet" can be viewed as being cathartic.


Love the word strumpet. My old granny used to use it.



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Ah, but you left out "Tart", "Lady of the Evening", "Escort", numerous others.

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Lubricitous. I'm stuck on lubricitous. It's another word like clitoris which just rolls off the tongue.

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mayhap

ˈmeɪˌhæp

adv
an archaic word for perhaps

I notice that nobody I speak to uses "ascertain" or "discern". I'm the only nerd in the conversations, apparently. lol

And the other day, I heard someone use a word only used previously by Colonel Sherman Tecumseh Potter.....jocularity.

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We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.

No, that was Father Mulcahy, when he got drunk at a "bachelor" party.

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Oooooh...I stand erected! Good catch.

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.