If you, like me, are keen to improve your vocabulary, you might have joined a ‘vocabulary building daily email list’ such as the one provided by Dr. Dictionary. You may even have joined it with friends and exchanged emails, testing your new vocabulary:
Dear Madge, you slugabed in your manse, I hope you are not still a dudgeon about my querulous behaviour in the gloaming
Despite all the efforts of the good Doctor (and believe me, I’ve tried non-doctor sets and they’re not as good), I find out the best word ever from a school chum – dipsomania:
Dear Client, I apologise for my tardy arrival at our project kick off meeting, but I had an attack of Dipsomania while travelling to your premises, as I passed a popular public lounge.