Words Guaranteed To Make Wyominites Feel Smarter In 2025

When the calendar flips to a new year, some make resolutions, and some may make a goals list. One of the items many will have on the list is to better themselves somehow.

Maybe it's reading more, losing weight, exercising, or enjoying the outdoors. It could also be learning new words to become smarter.

Sure, why not?

You could be the exception to the phrase, "You can't teach old dogs new tricks."

A new survey shows that 53% of people will use a complex word to sound smarter.

If you've seen the movie 'Catch Me If You Can' with Leo and Tom Hanks, Leo's character isn't a doctor, but using complex words helps him fit the role.

If you want to sound smarter by using big words, you're in luck. The folks at Preply have compiled a list of excellent words to help you impress other Wyomingites.

Of the people using those big, complex words, 82% use them at work, 69% at school and home, and 45% try to sound more intelligent than they are on Social Media.

Looking at this graph, you can see that if someone tries to prove they're smart, they'll often use big words.

If you're adding to your vocabulary this year, here is a list of words and their definitions from Dictionary.com to elevate your "smart factor."

• Ambiguous - open to or having several possible meanings or interpretations
• Articulate - uttered clearly in distinct syllables.
• Exacerbate - to increase the severity, bitterness, or violence of (disease, ill feeling, etc.); aggravate.
• Aesthetic - having a sense of the beautiful, characterized by a love of beauty.
• Dichotomy - division into two parts, kinds, etc.; subdivision into halves or pairs.
• Conundrum - anything that puzzles.
• Plethora - a large quantity or wide array; a lot:
• Ambivalent - having mixed feelings about someone or something; being unable to choose between two (usually opposing) courses of action:
• Frivolous - self-indulgently carefree; unconcerned about or lacking any serious purpose.
• Embellish - to enhance (a statement or narrative) with fictitious additions.
• Mitigate - to make it less severe:
• Quintessential - of or relating to the most perfect embodiment of something:
• Ubiquitous - existing or being everywhere, especially at the same time; omnipresent:
• Touché - an expression used for acknowledging a telling remark or rejoinder.
• Anomaly - an odd, peculiar, or strange condition, situation, quality, etc.
• Pragmatic - of or relating to a practical point of view or practical considerations.
• Juxtapose - to place close together or side by side, especially with an arresting or surprising effect, or in a way that invites comparison or contrast.
• Audacious - recklessly bold in defiance of convention, propriety, law, or the like; insolent; brazen.
• Concur - to accord in opinion; agree:
• Capricious - subject to, led by, or indicative of a sudden, odd notion or unpredictable change; erratic: