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To: Chicory

I use flummox, sinecure, nefarious, fastidious, quixotic occasionally without trying to be medieval or obscure. While sinecure might technically be a late medieval word in English, it is barely translated Latin going back a LOT farther.


9 posted on 04/20/2024 8:17:46 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana
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To: Dr. Sivana
"I use flummox, sinecure, nefarious, fastidious, quixotic occasionally without trying to be medieval or obscure."
I thought all of these words were in common present-day usage.
28 posted on 04/20/2024 12:06:07 PM PDT by Hiddigeigei ("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
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