Rodomontade.
Esurient.
Floccinaucinihilipilification.
No, we did not fall asleep on the keyboard. These are actual English words that we have learned from Shashi Tharoor, Member of Parliament for Thiruvananthapuram. It is a well-known fact that his vocabulary is good.
And that’s not it, the former diplomat stuns us constantly with his razor sharp wit when he gives his exemplary speeches. We try not to boastful or rodomontade about our usage of the language, but listening to Tharoor does make us get greedy or esurient for more exotic-sounding words.
Tharoor does know his dictionary inside out, who else do you know who could use ‘“Floccinaucinihilipilification” to convey that something or someone is useless.
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So when Shashi Tharoor was speaking recently at a college and was asked by a student to teach them a new word we were expecting a long, rambling word. But instead, Tharoor gave us a taste of his wit and left us with a lesson.
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In a now viral tweet, Tharoor’s reply is outstanding. In the video he says,
“I’ll give you a very simple and very old word. Read. That’s the only way I acquired my vocabulary. People think that I am some sort of nut case who studies the dictionary all day long. I have barely opened a dictionary in my life, but I have read extensively. And if you read widely, you read extensively and you come across the same word in their different contexts, in three different books, you will understand the meaning and the usage very quickly.”
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Tharoor also made great use of this moment to also clarify that despite popular assumption, he opens the dictionary very rarely. Delving deeper, Tharoor revealed how he had no other suitable option besides reading because as a child, he had asthma and was confined indoors most of the time.
“All I had was books, books were my escape, books were my education. And because I read and I read above my age-level, anything I get my hands on. I developed the kind of mind that God has blessed me with and I acquired the vocabulary that comes with it. So my only advice to all of you is read, read and read.”
And when the legend speaks, the Internet loves it. People were full of praise for this honest and genuine advice.
Tharoor, surely shows us how one word can change your life.
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