Will Self
author, journalist
British novelist and psychogeographer infamous for deploying the most abstruse words in the English language, once quizzing interviewers on "sesquipedalian" itself.
Top 3 Power Words
Words known to be used by Will Self-
adj. difficult to understand
His prose is famously abstruse and demanding.
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n. a feeling of weariness; listlessness.
The summer heat brought a sense of general lassitude.
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adj. 1 able to walk about; 2 relating to or adapted for walking; n. a covered walkway as in a cloister
Walking is an ambulatory meditation on the urban form.
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