There are so many new words that I have learned over the years and the impetus for this has been books. Reading literature and learning words that I have not been exposed to before.
Some of the words I learned from certain books wasn’t something I was introduced to through school.
I was always made fun of for using big words but I always say: “What’s the use of using so many words to describe something that could be summed up in one word.
Recalcitrant is a good example. Why not use the word recalcitrant to describe someone instead of saying they were: disobedient, defiant, against rule or authority.
However I don’t even like using that word because it just sounds “pretentious”
