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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PS: OP, can you write back something like "Oh, I was using 'peripatetic' in the sense of travelling, not in a negative way." No need to be clear that it's the only meaning, just leave it vague enough to assume that there may be more than one meaning. [/quote]

I think that is a nice way to phrase it w/o the person feeling stupid.[/quote]

OP here. Phrasing a response very much like this is what I think I will do. I didn’t give a lot of thought to using this word when I chose it and it just didn't occur to me that it would be misunderstood.

I do not want to embarrass my relative about any misunderstanding of this word, but I also don’t want her to persist in her misunderstanding of what I was saying. I also don’t want her gossiping to other relatives about how “unhappy” I was in my 20s and how I must regret the choices I made at that time.

And, yes, there’s an underlying concern here that this person is looking for negativity about my work life and other choices I made in my 20s. There is history here and I sort of wondered if the person was feigning misunderstanding of the word in order to tell me how “sorry” she is that I had such an unhappy young adulthood. It’s almost as though she is going out of her way to give a negative twist to my choices- which, in reality, have worked out very well for me and my family in the long run, but she would like to spin it in a negative way. 
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