Words for a Modern Age come mostly from Latin Greek sources




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Sesquipedalian Words; Part 2, 17-33

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Sesquipedalia Verba or Sesquipedalians in Action



Words for a Modern Age come mostly from Latin Greek sources




“I asked you to tell me where you’ve been all afternoon! Don’t tell me again that you were over at Jimmy’s because I called and he said you hadn’t been there. Now, tell me the truth!”





Words for a Modern Age come mostly from Latin Greek sources





“Mother, do you have the audacity to doubt my veracity and to insinuate that I prevaricate when I am as pure and undefiled as the icicles that hang from a church steeple?”







Words for a Modern Age come mostly from Latin Greek sources





Johnny’s mother didn’t say any more at the time because she decided to use her vocabulary resources to prepare a proper sesquipedalian response.









Words for a Modern Age come mostly from Latin Greek sources





“John, my son, please transport from that recumbent collection of fragmentary combustibles to the threshold of this edifice two curtailed expressions of defunct logs; and do it in this present tense of contiguous chronology.”









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