One of the more obscure English words I’ve seen is infulminate.
It means ‘to make thunderous’, and is a reference to skies. Your challenge? Use today’s obscure word in a sentence, down in the comments.
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Matthew Wright 
Not quite re thunder but its antecedent of lightning.
Fulmen, fulminis, noun, 3rd declension
“1. Lightning that descends and strikes anything.
2. [Fig.] Lightning, destroying power: hence of any violent or overwhelming calamity or misfortune:
[also] severe punishment.
3. [Of] any person or power that cannot be resisted, a thunderbolt; [also, of] bright fiery eyes.’
Riddle JE. The Young Scholar’s English-Latin and Latin-English Dictionary. London: Longman 1843.
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Depending on the dictionary. My meaning came from tbe Concise OED 11th ed. But that is the beauty of English – it can be hard to pin down and meanings change.
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