words

that make me feel stupid:

• formication - i'm seeing some hot-blooded coupling, not the cocaine addict with his hallucinations.
• pulchritude - don't you just think of gagging rolls of fat, or rotting flesh?
• disingenuous - this sounds so guileless...
• synesthesia - sounds as erudite as what it describes, so it is clever, but i don't feel so.