Quixotic

having or showing ideas that are different and unusual but not practical or likely to succeed. Named for Don Quixote.

Obsequious

too eager to praise or obey someone

Brouhaha

a lot of noise or angry complaining about something

Loquacious

to be loquacious is to indulge most thoroughly in the delights and cadences of ones lingua materna, to extend ones diction, to articulate ad infinitum.

Reprobate

a person of bad character and habits

Raconteur

someone who tells funny or interesting stories

Sobriquet

a name given to someone or something that is not their or its real or official name

Ostensible

appearing or claiming to be one thing when it is really something else

Coterie

a small group of people with shared interests, often one that does not want other people to join them

Limerence

an intense but potententially unreciprocated love, lust, or infatuation

Saudade

melancholic or nostalgic longing for a beloved yet absent something or someone

Weltschmerz

a mood of weariness or sadness about life arising from the acute awareness of evil and suffering

Incandescent

producing a bright light from a heated filament or other part, also; showing extreme rage or anger

Drapetomania

proposed mental illness used to explain why slaves would possibly want to flee slavery

Hysteria

ungovernable emotional excess, originally called "wandering uterus" and used to medically abuse women

Recognise

to know someone or something because you have seen or heard them or experienced it before. I love words like this; to recognise something is to re-cognise it; to cognise it again, to reattain cognition of the thing.