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Sometimes, the regular words you use to describe how you’re feeling just won’t do.

There are plenty of obscure English words you can turn to when the current dictionary just isn't cutting it.

All five answers to the questions below have something in common. Can you figure it out?

Grapes have a long agricultural history.

Wine grapes and table grapes are a huge agricultural asset. It's no wonder that the humble grape is among the world's largest fruit crops.

In 1993, a teenaged Alicia Silverstone changed the rules for video vixens everywhere with Aerosmith's "Cryin'"—and cemented her place in pop culture history.

There probably isn't any brandy in there.

The barrels we see around St. Bernards' necks in paintings and cartoons is the invention of an artist named Edwin Henry Landseer.

United is making it easier for the blind and visually-impaired to get around on its aircraft.

The airline is helping visually-impaired travelers fly with more independence.

The pattern is named after the European dance craze, but what exactly the dots have to do with polka is a bit of a mystery.

The father of French impressionism paid a gardener to dust his water lilies.

Chicken fingers or chicken tenders? It's complicated.

All fried chicken tenders qualify as fingers, but not all chicken fingers are tenders.

The fast talking, coffee-loving mother-daughter duo became a pop culture sensation when 'Gilmore Girls' premiered in the early 2000s.

Some cities are more cat-friendly than others. Here's the hard data to prove it.

Animatronic versions of bar patrons Norm and Cliff made two actors named George and John very unhappy.

A reconstruction of Ötzi the Iceman at the South Tyrol Archaeological Museum in Italy.

Nicknamed Ötzi the Iceman, the mummified man was around 40–50 years old when he died in the Copper Age. Here are 13 surprising facts about him.

Phone numbers with letters look like gibberish to most people making a phone call today.

You may have noticed these weird phone numbers while watching reruns of your favorite ’50s-era TV show—and though they look like gibberish to modern phone-users, they were perfectly normal at the time.

How to say “hello” (or something that roughly translates to a greeting) in five conlangs.

A conlang is a constructed language, where someone has intentionally created its grammar, vocabulary, and phonology. Here are five you can learn.

Turn left for endurance, right for enthusiasm.

You can’t spell ‘hearty’ without ‘heart,’ or ‘hardy’ without ‘hard.’

An exploding corpse, a 45-minute car chase, and a horse-related mishap that led to a century-long royal tradition. In this episode of The List Show, host Justin Dodd covers funerals gone wrong.