MORE WORDS: Whether you like crossword puzzles, or like reading books by authors who use less common verbiage, or you just like uncommon words, have we got a column for you.

Some on our list are more well known than others — hornswoggle, flummox, spoonerism and hullabaloo for example.

1. Do you try to ameliorate your Weltschmerz by standing in the out-of-doors, listening to the psithurism?
2. Despite someone’s tendency toward logorrhea, defenestration is seldom the answer.
3. Apricity spurs clinomania.

Here are some more words and their definitions.

Petrichor — the earthy smell after rain

Limerence — intense romantic infatuation

Mondegreen — a misheard lyric or phrase

Tmesis — inserting a word inside another word

Pareidolia — seeing patterns (like faces) in random things

Agelast — a person who never laughs

Nudiustertian — relating to the day before yesterday

Erinaceous — resembling a hedgehog

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What do the above sentences say?

1.Do you try to make your world pain by standing in the out-of-doors, listening to the sound made by the wind blowing through the trees?

2.Despite someone’s tendency toward extreme talkativeness, throwing someone out the window is seldom the answer,

3.The warmth of the sun in winter spurs the obsessive desire to stay in bed.

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DEFINITIONS: Here are some more definitions.

Kakistocracy — rule by the worst people

Quire — a set of 24 sheets of paper

Floccinaucinihilipilification — judging something as worthless

Sesquipedalian — fond of long words

Susurrus — a soft, whispering sound

Taradiddle — a petty lie; nonsense

Flibbertigibbet — a silly, flighty person

Gubbins — small things; odds and ends

Crapulence — sickness from overeating or overdrinking

Groak — to silently stare at someone’s food in the hope they’ll share

Cockalorum — a small, boastful man