Some of the words I've been able to employ on my Euro-jaunt, or heard used correctly sans trace of self-consciousness or pretension:
- perfervid
- disingenuous
- plangent
- epistemological
- intractable
- schism
- detritus
- evanescent
- subfusc (OK, *not* yer average everyday bon mot)
- apotheosis
- zenith
- expropriation
- curtailing
- trenchant
- saurian
- apophthegm
- seemly
- inured
- torpor
- antithesis
- captious
- tranche
- Rosicrucian (ditto 'subfusc')
- Catachresis
- Osmotic
- Antediluvian
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