Pretentious Vocabulary

Superfluities

An excessive amount of something

Prepondering

Be greater in number, influence, or importance.

Reverence

Deep respect for someone or something (noun).

Delineates

Describe or portray something precisely.

felicity

Intense happiness

Incommensurable

Not to be judged by the same standards; having no common standard of measurement.

Vitiate

Spoil or impair the quality or efficiency of.

Extant

Still in existence; surviving.

Capriciously

Subject to, led by, or indicative of a sudden, odd version or unpredictable; erratic.

Delineation

The action of describing or portraying something precisely.

Eminently

To a notable degree; very (adverb).

effulgence

a brilliant radiance; a shining forth.

obeisance

a movement of the body expressing deep respect or deferential courtesy, as before a superior; a bow, curtsy, or other similar gesture.

Antanaclasis

a rhetorical device in which a phrase or word is repeatedly used, though the meaning of the word changes in each case. It is the repetition of a similar word in a sentence with different meanings, or a word is repeated in two or more different senses

paronomasia

a rhetorical device that can be defined as a phrase intentionally used to exploit the confusion between words having similar sounds but different meanings. It is like a word play, and is also known as a "pun."

desuetude

a state of disuse.

chamois

a type of soft pliable leather now made from sheepskin or lambskin.

chagrin

annoyance or distress at having failed or been humiliated.

perturbed

anxious or unsettled; upset.

mal à propos

in an inappropriate or inopportune way

abscond

leave hurriedly and secretly, typically to escape from custody or avoid arrest.

promulgate

promote or make widely known (an idea or cause).

Vehement

showing strong feeling; forceful, passionate, or intense.

Anathema

something or someone that one vehemently dislikes.

polyptoton

stylistic device that is a rhetorical repetition of the same root word. However, each time the word is repeated in a different way, such as the words luppiter, lovi, lovis, and lovem are derived from the root word "love".

Unwonted

unaccustomed or unusual.

profligate

wildly extravagant (adverb - negative)