Unless, of course, the judicious use of arcane words is intentional.
SAY farewell to vocabulary flashcards with arcane words like "compendious," "membranous," "mendacious," "pugnacious," "depreciatory," "redolent," "treacly" and "jettison".
He said, "I think he deliberately avoids arcane words, just as he deliberately avoids arcane ideas, because he wants to communicate".
The prosecution also presented e-mails in which Bala sounded unmistakably like Chris, using the same vulgar or arcane words, such as "joy juices" and "Madame Melancholy".
He recalled returning from services and having to look up the arcane words that Rabbi Neulander had used in his sermons.
Since "Saturday Night Live" made fun of him after the first debate for using the arcane word "lockbox" to describe where he would put the Social Security trust fund, Mr. Gore has been more self-conscious about the word.
When I taught composition, one of the cardinal rules I imparted to my students was never utilize 'utilize' when you can use 'use.' Thesaurus in hand, a writer can substitute longer, more arcane words just to try to make prose sound more erudite — but end up sounding like a ninny instead.
The best writers — from Charles Frazier in "Cold Mountain" to Junot Diaz in "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" — deploy foreign or arcane words sparingly, to give a realistic flavor of an era or a culture, but they also channel the atmosphere of time and place through the rhythms of speech.
The hermeneutic style is the name given by historians to a style of Latin in the later Roman and early medieval periods which was characterised by the extensive use of unusual and arcane words, especially derived from Greek.
Each year, hundreds of phenoms from around the nation travel to Washington, D.C., to spell out arcane words that most of us would never even attempt to utter, let alone spell.
