Can you use these words in a story.....Osculate, flounce, harbinger,

Well, it's your story, so of course you can. But while some are pretty well-known (e.g. "harbinger"), I would avoid a few of the others, unless it's necessary for the story.
 
Well, it's your story, so of course you can. But while some are pretty well-known (e.g. "harbinger"), I would avoid a few of the others, unless it's necessary for the story.
 
Nearly all of those words are old-fashioned and obscure, and would not be easily understood by many people in Britain today. Therefore I suggest, if you are learning basic or intermediate English, that you go back to your teacher and tell him/her what I have said. Is your teacher a native speaker of British or American English? Somehow I think not.

Everyday words: Rogue, satire, overt.

Not uncommon: Flounce, delineated.

All the rest could really only be used in a story about times long past, and then only if you knew absolutely how to use them and many other words like them to give a very historical atmosphere..
 
Nearly all of those words are old-fashioned and obscure, and would not be easily understood by many people in Britain today. Therefore I suggest, if you are learning basic or intermediate English, that you go back to your teacher and tell him/her what I have said. Is your teacher a native speaker of British or American English? Somehow I think not.

Everyday words: Rogue, satire, overt.

Not uncommon: Flounce, delineated.

All the rest could really only be used in a story about times long past, and then only if you knew absolutely how to use them and many other words like them to give a very historical atmosphere..
 
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