Good Advice

[Alex]

Just make sure you know how to pronounce. Back in college there was a toga party (how cliche!) and the invite used the word bacchanal. I thought another person on the floor was being funny when she kept pronouncing it "batch-anal." Which made it an entirely different party and her the butt (heh heh) of many jokes for the rest of the year (could have been worse, in 9th grade there was a girl who though an orgy was a big scary monster; she had four years of living that one down).

The only thing worse than using bigger words than people are comfortable with is pronouncing them incorrectly.