Here I always thought that I was fairly well educated and knew quite a few seldom used words. However, pride goeth before a fall, as we should all know and The Common Room is proving just how little I really know in the way of words.
In the course of reviewing a book (yet another for my long list), a discussion begins about what a paucity of words the modern writers and readers know. The long list of words in the post had few that I had ever seen before.
This was followed later by a list of definitions which was enlightening.
This seems to have led to a trend of word-spotting as we see here.
Obviously I am reading books that are much too modern and suffer from lack of vocabulary.
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