50 Fancy Words

Times Topics: 50 Fancy Words
By By PHILIP B. CORBETT
Published: June 8, 2010
Times readers are literate and well educated. But privately, away from the cocktail party, some of them may wonder: what exactly does “jejune” mean, anyway? If someone put a gun to my head, could I give a precise definition of “atavistic”?

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