5 Oversized English Words
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- Contraremonstrance – a remonstrance to a remonstrance. It is a lovely word, and would appear to be useful at so many points in one’s life that it is odd that it has never quite caught on.

- Antepenultimate -coming before the next to last in any series

- Contrasuggestible – likely to respond to a suggestion by doing or believing the contrary . it looks like a fancy word for describing that an adult is acting like a child

- Epistemophilia– love of knowledge; specifically: excessive striving for or preoccupation with knowledge

- Pandiculation – a stretching and stiffening especially of the trunk and extremities (as when fatigued and drowsy or after waking from sleep)

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