Everything has a name to it, and here are some of the things you see, use, touch, on a daily basis that isn't called 'that thing.' Learn their names and sound like the smartest kid on the block from the list below. Check it out:
1. The space between your eyebrow is called a glabella
2. A word for the way it smells outside after rain? It's called petrichor.
3. Your stomach wambles. That's what you say when your stomach rumbles.
4. That plastic/metal bit on the end of your shoelaces? AGLET!
5. A newborn baby will experience VAGITUS. (That's the word for a newborn baby's crying.)
6. Lunule = that crescent-shaped part of your nail.
7. Peen: That's what the non-striking side of a hammer is called.
8. The prongs on a fork are called tines.
9. The plastic thing in the middle of a pizza is called a box tent.
10. The crust is actually called a cornicione, which is the end portion of the "crust," which is actually the entire thing a pizza is built on.
11. Rasceta are the inside lines of your wrist.
12. The metal part at the end of a pencil is called a ferrule.
13. The smallest finger on the hand, is called a minimus (aka the pinky).
14. This is a zarf.
15. The piece of wire that holds cork is called an agraffe.
16. The infinity symbol? Lemniscate.
17. The armhole, which is where the sleeve is sewn, is called the armscye
18. That groove above your lip below your nostril is the philtrum.
19. Rays breaking through the cloud. Those are crepuscular rays.
20. Phloem bundles are the stringy thingies that come off of bananas.