Jackie, I can read you post if I click "Quick Quote."
I was able to make one new post in Q & A and W & F but was unable to Reply or Edit, so I thought I'd try another new one here,
Here's what I tried to post:
According to the Detroit Free Press, Wayne State University "unveiled its annual list of the top 10 most useful--and underused--words in the English language":
• Buncombe: Rubbish; nonsense; empty or misleading talk.
• Cerulean: The blue of the sky.
• Chelonian: Like a turtle.
• Dragoon: To compel by coercion; to force someone to do something they'd rather not.
• Fantods: Extreme anxiety, distress, nervousness or irritability.
• Mawkish: Excessively sentimental; sappy; hopelessly trite.
• Natter: To talk aimlessly, often at great length; rarely, it means simply to converse.
• Persiflage: Banter; frivolous talk.
• Troglodyte: Literally, a cave-dweller. More frequently a backward, mentally sluggish person.
• Winkle: To pry out or extract something; from the process of removing the snail from an edible periwinkle.