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wordodex 

n. The part of the human brain responsible for storage and, more importantly, retrieval of the words learned over the course of a lifetime.

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Wordodex failures, in which the correct or perfect word (le mot juste ou parfait), which may have spent years collecting dust in the less-travelled areas of a surgeon's cerebral cortex, is badly routed and ends up dangling uselessly at the tip of his tongue, can be both annihilatory and devastative.
wordodex by gnostic3 November 23, 2022
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Wordorexia 

(noun)
1. An appetite for words

2. A strong desire to write.
(adjective) -wordorexic
"I have wordorexia right now."
"I have a wordorexic friend."
Wordorexia by Jake07 May 25, 2019
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wordadex 

n. Source of synonyms; a book, computer file, smartphone app or knowledgeable pleonastic person. Similar to a thesaurus or synofile.

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Can you think of another word for rhetorical?

I'm not a wordadex. Look in the thesaurus.
wordadex by gnostic1 September 21, 2011