I don’t like words I don’t understand.
josh
People use this flaw of mine against me and constantly speak in a longwinded tongue.
They berate me through complex words such as ‘nihilist’, ‘consternation’, ‘obstinacy’, and ‘insidious’.
I can only reply with ‘okay’, or ‘sure’ when really I am not at all sure. My insides rage with unsureness. I don’t know if that is a word.
One day I started to read the dictionary - I wanted to read it cover to cover - but stumbled on ‘aardvark’ because the letters made no sense.
How can I learn? Where do non-understandable words live?
My life is overshadowed by vocabulary.