Thanks for the great feedback. I get where you're coming from, and I really don't intend to make things hard on the reader, but when I think about it, one of the things I loved about reading books at a young age was seeing a word that I had to look up.

Ian Fleming's James Bond, 007 series of novels were the rage when my interest in reading was blooming, and I've always looked at the experience of reading those novels as being so valuable in increasing my vocabulary, (and possibly my level of sophistication, haha). It was pretty tough reading to understand, and this was a time when blue laws were still in effect in most, if not all of America, so most adults then couldn't tell you what was meant either.

But, there are likely times when I unknowingly use a word that could be broken down to an easier to understand association. I'll try to be more conscious of that.

*Blue laws = Nothing was open on Sunday except churches. !tipuvote .1