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Originally Posted by DAISHI
Agreed with Puzzlebox. Half the obscure words I know are entirely unusable in reality are really confined to the world of GRE test taking and academic writings. And academic writers really just flaunt those words to be pompous.
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I've noticed that with academic writing and find it horribly annoying. Perhaps it's encouraged/validated by the peer review system, but I don't see that there's much to be achieved in
deliberately making your work more inaccessible.
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Originally Posted by Vainamoinen
This test your vocabulary thing however deals with passive as opposed to active vocabulary.
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I guess my point is that I consider it trivia.