Unusual colors like phlox and glaucous can seem a bit silly, but these odd colors can help us evoke so much more than conventional hues like "dark red" or "sky blue." The strange colors covered in this episode of The List Show might be familiar to you, but we bet you'll have fun incorporating them into your vocabulary.
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