I don’t mind using words others may not know, especially if they are not crucial to the statements in question.
After all, everyone must hear each word for the first time, so it might as well be from me.
I revel in new words and love to use old words in new ways. I only hope that using them in everyday conversation doesn’t make me sound too snotty.
Welcome to the boards! What are some of your favorite “unusual” words, rasher? I happen to like preternatural and circumscribed.
Welcome to the board. I assume this is your first thread too!
I like to use unusual words, as long as I am not using them in too egregious a fashion. And, I am reasonably confident I can pronounce them.
Not to sound arrogant, but my vocabulary has always been extraordinary, probably the result of a voracious reading appetite throughout the years. I’m always surprised when someone has to ask what the hell I’m talking about. In the military, I was accused by my troops of being patronizing, because I used “big words”. I actually taught myself to “dumb down” my speech when talking to peers, so they wouldn’t be offended. My present admin assistant admits to occasionally scurrying to the dictionary to find out what I’ve said to her, but says she likes the exposure to new words and meanings.
The use of esoteric verbiage is a joyful thing that should never be casually defenestrated. 
I do try to limit the frequency with which I use truly unusual terms, so that listeners have adequate context from which to infer my meaning.
Belatedly, I note that rasher has already been banned. Unless his/her one other post (which appears to have vanished) exhibited truly egregious behaviour, I assume it was for offenses given in some prior incarnation.
Well that’s crummy… I would have liked to see a pole going of favorite unusual words and why we like them. The mods aren’t going to kill this b/c the OP is banned are they? The MeatBeast is still a little new to know the answer.
Anyhows, one I really like is Dirigible. Not that I get much of a chance to use it in a conversation, but when I do, boy am I glowing.
“Your word is: Dirigible”
“…Dirigible…can you use it in a sentence?”
“The MeatBeast loves using the word Dirigible in sentences.”
“…Hmmm…dirigible…”
Indubitably.
Prevalently
I don’t really use a lot of big words, but I do like to use unusual word combinations. I also like to use antiquated word forms.
Eloquently!
Eschew obfuscation!
No, I’m not particularly sesquipedalian.
Barry
Only when I’m not feeling oscitant.
A professor once commented on a paper I wrote that the way I wrote was good . . . for the 19th century.
I guess like Chefguy, much of how I write (and the words I use) come from reading so many books.
I love books. Almost to a fault.
WRS
This nosocomial peripatetic could interpellate those autochtonous to this sort of thread, and snap them from their hypnagogic state, but it would be to much moil and I would be subject to animadversion and collywobbling.
I’ve been told my writing sounds like Dickens in regards to vocabulary.
I like to throw around big words here and there. Here are a few of my favourites:
abstruse
obverse
recondite
consternation
persiflage
ensorceled
labyrinthine
interstices
peristaltic
rotary Wankel engine
Whenever I say approbation my husband rolls his eyes and says, “Urrgh, are you reading Jane Austin AGAIN???”…lol
That woman sports car designer’s ability to express herself couldn’t hold a hand dipped taper to Ms. Austen’s.