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Using ostentatiously recondite words.

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  • Try it, and put your lexiphanic tendencies to good use for once.
  • Via lexiphanic, a meme where you set your playlist on randomize, list a lyric from the first 25 songs that come up (without cheating) and invite people to guess the song.
  • I mean, if I know little about who I am how can my beloved readers connect to my lexiphanic narcissism?
  • A third reason for waxing lexiphanic is to soften one's scurrility -- to abstract it so that one's audience does not immediately visualize an unpleasant image.
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