Words For Nerds - Vociferate

Vociferate

Vo - cif - er - ate

To shout, to holler, to cry.

From the latin vociferatus, voc from vox meaning voice and ferre meaning to bear. Literally meaning to bear your voice.

Any creature with lungs can vociferate and vociferating was probably the first thing you did when you were born; it’s a very primal and human thing to do. Vociferating is most often an emotional reaction and it can be used to convey a wide range of emotions from excitement and joy to pain, anger and fear. Vociferating can be used to grab attention, as a release when you’re overwhelmed and to communicate emotion where language can’t. Even with 170,000 words currently in use and more than a million words existing in the English language alone, we still occasionally run out. Journalist Diana Konig said, “The scream is there before language and it appears where the language reaches its limits.”

Easy to pronounce and relevant to human life - 8/10