fuck those “200 words to use more often in writing!” lists. the point of a really GOOD word is that you only get to use it every so often, when it’s exactly the perfect word to use. sort of like killing ordinary goblins with a regular short knife most of the time, and only reaching for the ancestral blade your father bequeathed to you in his dying hour when you have to defeat the Goblin Overlord. 

bad analogy, the ancestral blade my father bequeathed to me has a spell on it that makes it immune to dulling or breakage from use. i’ll kill a goblin with it i’ll kill the goblin’s king with it i’ll cut my damn sandwiches in half with it because they’re easier to eat that way

i understand that your father bequeathed you a good ass sword, but in my experience ancestral blades break quite easily and deserve cautious use. anyways my point you shouldn’t use the word “vertiginous” in a sentence unless you really need to but its fun when you can 

what i find vertiginous is these shitty fuckin swords ya’lls dads are giving you