Apropos of nothing, other than the fact that I like big words, Mary Challender reports on 100 words that the editors of the American Heritage College Dictionary think every high school graduate should know.
After a quick scan, my guess would be that I could use about 90 in my writing without thinking. Another five to seven I'd have to look up just to make sure. Three to five I really do not know.
Or at least now I do.
What hath this lexicon wrought?