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92 wordies list
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first listed by:
msc (227 words)
appears in these lists:
msc's Words, by msc
swiss's Words, by swiss
2007bee-r03, by prakash
GRE list #3, by Sera
nivi's Words, by nivi
rduke's Words, by rduke
Odessa's Words, by Odessa
Confusually, by whichbe
Good words, by komsedrol
Words, by spoonerist
noele's list, by noele
azd's Words, by azd
btkuhn's list, by btkuhn
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I recall this as an SAT-prep word
"...having sailed with Captain Aubrey since the turn of the century... he could now almost always discriminate between larboard and starboard: he prided himself extremely on his acquaintance with fore and aft and some even more recondite nautical terms."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Ionian Mission, 18
From pompousasswords.com:
Is not such recondite reasoning, leading to such opaque conclusions about such baroque regulations of speech, prima facie evidence of incompatibility with the austere brevity of the First Amendment?
Could we find a more pompous ass passage this year? I don't think so. Of course, Bill Bennett is still out there.