Hee! I had never known "refulgent" before. No, it certainly does not sound like it is "shining radiantly; resplendent" (which is how dictionary.com has it defined).
"Pulchritudinous" works similarly for me. It sounds really icky, like "a pile of pulchritudinous vomit." Not a pretty word.
And "nonplussed," to me, seems like it would refer to someone calm and in control and not confused, not the other way around.
"Skulduggery" sounds like something Morgoth might have done to make orcs, certainly not a little innocent trickery.
I think the best thing about taking the GREs was learning all these crazy (sometimes archaic) words. I used to love when I'd encounter a word in my GRE book, look it up, and it was so archaic that it was no longer in the dictionary. Gotta love the priorities of standardized tests!
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Date: 2005-09-14 05:40 pm (UTC)"Pulchritudinous" works similarly for me. It sounds really icky, like "a pile of pulchritudinous vomit." Not a pretty word.
And "nonplussed," to me, seems like it would refer to someone calm and in control and not confused, not the other way around.
"Skulduggery" sounds like something Morgoth might have done to make orcs, certainly not a little innocent trickery.
I think the best thing about taking the GREs was learning all these crazy (sometimes archaic) words. I used to love when I'd encounter a word in my GRE book, look it up, and it was so archaic that it was no longer in the dictionary. Gotta love the priorities of standardized tests!