Is it possible to take vocabulary expansion too far? A piece in the Wall Street Journal points out the situations where word knowledge can work against you. True sesquipedalians, or "word nerds" need to be careful of the words they chose lest they alienate people they're trying to impress, or just render themselves incomprehensible.
Just for fun, we've rounded up the offending words quoted in the Journal piece, into a List for "Language Junkies." Whether you relish these words or think of them as ones to avoid, it's fun to look them over, add them to your learning at Vocabulary.com.
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