19 outstanding words you should be working into conversation

Some are foreign words. Others come from medical dictionaries. And there's a surprising amount of hobo slang. Have fun working these into your conversations

With the advent of Google, this dictionary might seem oldfangled to some.
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1. Kummerspeck (German): Excess weight gained from emotional overeating. Literally, grief bacon.

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