How to Increase Your Vernacular Vocabulary

If you would like to receive props for your language prowess and you don't want to sound hinky when talking with others, a good way to start increasing your vocabulary is by watching television.

I just heard the word props for the first time while watching the Winter X-Games and the word hinky while watching the props-worthy show Bones.

The definitions are from Merriam-Webster.com

props:

Etymology: short for proper dues

Date: 1992

1 slang : due "takes pains to give the man his props" — Dan Epstein
2 slang : respect "teachers have to earn their props just like everybody else" — Greg Donaldson 3 slang : credit "at least deserves props for writing a song about something that rings true" — Jim Abbott

hinky:

Etymology: alteration of argot hincty suspicious
Date: 1956
1 slang : nervous, jittery

2 slang : suspicious