Sounds wicked, and a bit kinky, but it really means the inability to concentrate. This perhaps could lead to abstinence if applied in the wrong situation. (Source: The Superior Person’s Book of Words)

Toss this word into your next email (always capitalized) when describing your company’s budget. The word means that something is of a tremendous size, and it sounds so much livelier than gargantuan or colossal. It hails from Jonathan Swift’s novel Gulliver’s Travels. There, he met the Brobdingnag, giants 12 times the size of us normal folk. So anything that is unusually large, you can now label Brobdingnagian, and just let them wonder. Perfect to describe your Johnson. (Source: Merriam-Webster’s 365 New Words Calendar)

Yes, this is a word. We’ve heard of parallel and perpendicular, even diagonal, but what about slantindicular? The meaning is something that is somewhat oblique or lying at a slanting angle. The mathematician in me takes this as being between 0° and 45° from the parallel. (Source: Merriam-Webster’s 365 New Words Calendar)

This adjective means brought about by worry or anxiety (exactly the type of problem you have when calling in sick). Pair this with any other sickness to make it sound more extreme (kedogenous cardialgia). (Source: The Superior Person’s Book of Words)