Excellent idea Ad-o.
Suzie Dent of Countdown does a word of the day thing on Twitter which occasionally pops up on my FB feed. Please don't ask me why, it is the internet innit!
Anyway, some of hers are very good. This is a list of her 10 most popular words of the day:
‘Ingordigiousness’: extreme greed; an insatiable desire for wealth at any cost. (141,387 likes)
Maw-worm’ (19th century): one who insists that they have done nothing wrong, despite evidence to the contrary. (114,681 likes)
‘Sparple’ (14th century): to deflect unwanted attention from one thing by making a big deal of another. (109,082 likes)
‘Recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something unpleasant after a period of relief. (103,422 likes)
‘Malversation’ (16th century): the corrupt administration of power. (92,425 likes)
‘Filipendulous’ (19th century): hanging by a thread. (88,913 likes)
‘Circumlocutionist’: one who consistently speaks in a roundabout way in order to avoid addressing a question directly. (77,277 likes)
Spuddle’ (17th century): to work ineffectively; to be extremely busy whilst achieving absolutely nothing. (75,219 likes)
‘Sequaciousness’ (17th century): the blinkered, unreasoning, and slavish following of another, no matter where it leads. (69,710 likes)
‘Zugzwang [tzoog-tzwung]: a situation in chess (and life) in which a move must be made, but each possible one will make the situation worse. (68,422 likes)
Today for example I have been mostly spuddling.