A reference to the use of long words; especially when verbal construction utilizing less amplification might represent a more naturally efficacious phraseology and as a result, verba obscura.

Enjoy your play with words by translating these into their “simple-English proverb” forms.

• Verba Obscura #1: Those of deficient intellect usually press forward where members of the heavenly host dread to venture.


• Verba Obscura #2: The time to smite the ferrous metal is when it is at a super thermic temperature.


• Verba Obscura #3: A vociferous domesticated carnivorous animal belonging to the genus Canis generally is not prone to put his dental equipment to use when it is busy making a noise.


• Verba Obscura #4: The feathered creature that appears before the usual time captures the small, creeping, legless animal.


• Verba Obscura #5: The upsetting of a container of a white, nourishing fluid does not call for expressions of bereavement.


• Verba Obscura #6: Conduct a careful survey before you commit yourself to a springing, forward movement.


• Verba Obscura #7: It is one thing to conduct a hoofed, four-legged animal to a colorless and odorless fluid but it is another matter to force it to imbibe.


• Verba Obscura #8: It is impossible to create a small money receptacle made of a soft, tenacious thread from the auricle of a female porker.


• Verba Obscura #9: The Creator lends valuable assistance to those who practice self-aid.


• Verba Obscura #10: An intermixture or succession of different things seasons and flavors a person's existence.

The translations of the “verba obscura” are located at this Translations of the "verba obscura" page.

There are additional sesquipedalian groups at this Sesquipedalia page.