Sesquipedalia Verba
from Horace's Ars Poetica...'words a foot and a half long'


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I am told that I should not use 'difficult' words—but now and again I would prefer to use a really apposite word, and provide a definition, just in case anyone is interested.


The Chambers Dictionary:

apposite:
  apt; to the purpose
sesquipedalian:  tending to use long or cumbersome words