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1) Chortle Laugh
2) Discrepancy Inconsistency
3) Trudge Walk wearily
4) Odious Dislikable
5) Paradox Self-contradictory statement
6) Renege Break a promise
7) Assuage Soothe
8) Pragmatic Practical
9) Reticent Restrained
10) Salubrious Wholesome
11) Subterfuge Deception
12) Ubiquitous Omnipresent
13) Intractable Unsolvable
14) Truculent Savage
15) Vortex Whirlpool
16) Vex Annoy
17) Immolate Fire sacrifice
18) Ignominious Shameful
19) Hyperbole Exaggeration
20) Foible Weakness
21) Macabre Gruesome
22) Malevolent Hostile
23) Spurious Fake
24) Puissant Powerful
25) Mellifluous Sweet
26) Lachrymose Tearful
27) Mollify Appease
28) Expurgate Purge
29) Celerity Speed
30) Clandestine Secret
31) Bellicose Warlike
32) Defenestrate Throw from window
33) Pusillanimous Lacking courage
34) Termagant Quarrelsome woman
35) Crepuscular Twilight
36) Disgruntled Unhappy
37) Sinecure Paid job with little work
38) Ptarmigan Type of bird
39) Sepulchral Belonging to a tomb
40) Palimpsest Reused parchment
41) Turpitude Depravity
42) Tryst A meeting
43) Diatribe Denunciation
44) Masticate Chew
He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)
Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?
Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner)
A hangover is the wrath of grapes