What word makes you feel sophisticated when you say it?

[Anonymous]

Acquiesce, sanctimonious, compunction, or penultimate

[Anonymous]

touché

[Anonymous]

Sic transit gloria mundi.
anything in Latin

[Anonymous]

Not just a word:

"Sorry, I was inconsiderate and did not see things from your perspective. I apologize."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Victorian sponge

Bakers often make Victorian sponge cakes on The Great British Baking Show and they just sound so -- posh.

It’s Victoria sponge.

[Anonymous]

Orthogonal

[Anonymous]

Adjacent
Obtuse
Acute
Vector
Equilateral
Calculus

[Anonymous]

cohort

[Anonymous]

optics

[Anonymous]

"on holiday" instead of "on vacation"

[Anonymous]

loquacious

[Anonymous]

females

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"on holiday" instead of "on vacation"

This sounds pretentious when Americans say it. A co-worker said it not too long ago and she sounded ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sic transit gloria mundi.
anything in Latin

So you use “c.v.” instead of resume?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"on holiday" instead of "on vacation"

This sounds pretentious when Americans say it. A co-worker said it not too long ago and she sounded ridiculous.

Even worse is if an American says “I was in hospital” or “When I was in university…”