My brain hurts

I'm studying for the GRE, so I can get into graduate school. I take the test on Thursday and my brain has officially reached capacity. You know how you feel when you eat too much at Thanksgiving? That's how my brain feels. It needs a nap in the recliner.

Part of the test involves knowing big vocabulary words. As I study these words, I realize there are quite a few I already know and have used at one time or another. Yay for me! But then I come across words like "truculent" or "somnambulist" and I begin to wonder, "People actually use these words? Really? Maybe the British use them. Americans wouldn't be caught dead using big words."

In effort to learn some of the lesser known vocabulary of the English language, I have decided to start using them during my normal conversations with the kids. I figure it's never too early for them to brush up on their vocab for the SAT.

Here's a sampling of sentences I plan on implementing for the next couple of days (until after Thursday when I don't have know these words again):

Miles, don't be so abstruse. 

Caitlynn often uses grandiloquence language when trying to impress her friends. (Or maybe that's me that does it?)

Dexter the cat is quite indolent lately.

Other words I may drop into conversation:
pusillanimous, salubrious, sepulchral,  solecism, trammel, voluble, fetid, gambol, dolor

I wonder if the kids will notice the change in my language or if they'll do what they normally do -- tune me out.

Churlish kids!











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