Words

Words of today: ogive, ogee, inculpate, abnegate, abrogate, arrogate, and transhumance.

Abnegate, abrogate, and arrogate, obviously, are pretty easily confused words. And because they have more common synonyms, they're even easier to neglect, and therefore confuse, and possibly misuse. Ogive I was looking up because of Keegan's A History of Warfare (he uses "ogival" to describe the shape of the compound bow with which the horse people of the steppes conquered the known world over and over), and ran into ogee as a synonym.

I like collecting words, but if one doesn't use them regularly, they are tough to commit to memory. And if one uses abnegate and inculpate in a sentence instead of renounce and incriminate, one is likely to get a confused stare or a punch in the head.