Reading with a dictionary................

So, I started reading Louis Menand's The Metaphysical Club:  A Story of Ideas in America.   It didn't take me long to figure out that his vocabulary makes mine look a bit inchoate.

Here is a start to my list of words that needed to be looked up:

afflatus

belletrist

aperçus

peripeteia

meretricious

frisson

Have you used any of these words lately?  Just wondering.