Word: vilipend
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...listed are very similar (in sound and meaning) to Italian words that are commonly used in spoken and written language. They might not be used every day, perhaps, but they are used by intellectuals, in letters, newspapers and broadcasts. Apodeictic, muliebrity, mansuetude, even caducity, caliginosity, nitid, agrestic, roborant or vilipend have Latin or Greek roots that are very familiar to me and most high school graduates. I do not think that less used words should be deterged from the vocabulary of any spoken language. I think that we have to teach them and use them more. The use of complex...
...Collins' editors know that old words die hard - and that some people will vilipend (regard with contempt) any execution without a fair trial. So they've offered the chance of a reprieve. They have made public 24 words that face deletion because editors could find no example of their use in their database of English-language books, newspapers, broadcasts and other media. If, by February 2009, a word reappears in that database with at least six "high quality" citations, it could be spared from the semantic dustbin. "We're looking to see if dropping a little stone in the pond...
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