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Feature: Fubsy. Griseous. Cacotopia. Yestreen...

Eliza Williams

All these words may seem familiar, but what do they mean? Can you think of the last time you heard them? It’s unlikely that they would have come up in any recent conversation as these are ‘endangered’ words – utterances that are so under-used that they risk falling out of the dictionary and being lost forever

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