My sis-in-law (no great shakes in the words dept; she pronounces potpourri with a "t") once told my mother that I was "snooty" because I sometimes use words she doesn't know. :eyebrow:

Potporri? Isn't that when you assemble a joint from the remains of several disparate ones?

EXACTLY!

http://www.cartoonstock.com/lowres/pbl0041l.jpg

:D

Don't try using the word "niggardly". Talk about getting in trouble....

Yeah the White NAACP directer of finance got fired over that a few years ago ,
Propper use , bad judgement to use it when addressing the the Whole assembly

I use mitigate.

Lojack will most likely mitigate some of it's own cost with the discount you'll receive on your insurance premium....

A city planner told me they would have to cut down 7 old-growth (~150 yr) Douglas Firs
along our property line for a new light rail line. "But," she said sweetly,
"The City would mitigate them by planting 7 new seedlings elsewhere on our property"

Mitigate ? In my life time ? Yeah sure, that'll work.

I like "disingenuous" - a polite word with a pointed tip

and specious is another one, ooh and duplicitous

All exceptionally cromulent words

One should frequently cultivate obfuscatory sesquipedelian circumlocutions.

man, you guys are nerds.


*applies black eyeliner*

The editor of our local paper has a bumper sticker that says: Eschew Obfuscation

One of my daughters loves to argue.
At a dinner table one night she came up with:

"Compromise, never capitulate"

See, that's the difference between daughters and cats.
The only thing Diz brings up at dinner is... well, dinner.