Dying Words

[Babar]

anti-macassar - what IS an anti-macassar? For that matter, what is a macassar? Is that even how it is spelt? The one thing going for it is that is sounds great
hemlock - I guess the word fell out of use along with the poison
thespian
malady
There was also a word for that green blob thing in Quest for Glory 1. I think it also had another meaning, and I was quite taken by the sound of it.
*EDIT*
Purple, sorry, purple. I had played a long time ago, and my memory would mesh anything "blob" with green
You've gotta love Antwerp.  I mean, you combine ant with twerp, and you get a place in Belgium

[AGA]

Green blob thing? Don't recall that. There were purple blob things (Antwerps), and Antwerp is a place in Belgium...

Or did you mean something else I've forgotten about?

[Evil]

Scrutinize is a dying word

Heh, there's a kid in my class, who is fairly popular, and he always says ridelcher. Its a fun word to use if people dont know what it is.

[DragonRose]

Argh! No! I know what ridelcher means, and I wish I didn't! Baaaaaad....

[Andail]

AGA, I think you didn't bother to check that scrabble-thing

example:
  S        R
gERRyMANder
  T         T

caps are laid out letters. You add g,y,d,e and "r", around and between the words ERR and MAN. Just five letters. Don't worry, AGA, to err is human.

[Las Naranjas]

In conclusion, I could have had gerrymander in a scrabble exam, even though I didn't.

Exempleary work fellahs.

[Ali]

And Ali: You've still added 8 letters

It took me several minutes to work out how I'd added the 8 letters in:

GERRYmanDER

It seems I read double-R as one letter. Thanks to Andail for doing what I meant to do, but with less blindingly obvious mistakes.

[Snarky]

hence
satisfice
funereal
queer (meaning strange)

The awesome thing about English is that few words truly die. They linger on in the OED and Shakespeare plays, and now and then they resurface into the daily vocabulary, like "crony".

And although US may be blamed for the deterioration of the language, it's also home to spelling bees that keep some obscure words from vanishing.

[Disco]

When Babar mentioned the green blob thing from Quest for Glory 1, he likely meant the spokesperson for the Meeps (Or perhaps spokesmeep?)

As for dying words:

Violet - commonly used by artists, but rare in the USA. Even the code to make that violet used the word purple. Hmph!!

Beta-carotene

Stockings

Disco - long forgotten by everone except me, seems like

[Las Naranjas]

It's quite common for Chinse students to adopt western names when studying abroad, and there's a girl at uni who adopted the name Disco.

Disco Wang.

groovy.

[Moox]

derelict