Unusual Traits

Not everything fits neatly into a category, and these five words help you say so.

You'll practice anachronistic, anomalous, idiosyncratic, nebulous, and speculative, words used to describe things that are out of place, irregular, or hard to define. They come up in analysis, reviews, and discussions where you're trying to describe something unusual or unclear.

Pro Tip: anomalous means deviating from a statistical or expected norm; idiosyncratic means peculiar to one specific individual.