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Sesquipedalian Long Adjective Overuse Words Ponderous Polysyllabic Latin

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1. Given to the overuse of long words.
2. Long and ponderous, polysyllabic.

Sesquipedalian comes from the Latin sesqui- (“half as much again”) and ped("foot").

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