learned\ words

learned\ words
- serve to satisfy communicative demands of official, scientific, high poetry and poetic messages, authorial speech of creative prose;
- mainly observed in the written form;
- contribute to the message the tone of solemnity, sophistication, seriousness, gravity, learnedness.

I must decline to pursue this painful discussion, It is not pleasant to my feelings; it is repugnant to my feelings. (Ch.Dickens)

See: neutral words, colloquial words; special literary words; lexical level
Source: V.A.K.

English-Russian dictionary of stylistics (terminology and examples) . 2014.

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