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William Shakespeare and Vladimir Nabokov were both born today. During their lives, each had perhaps the largest written vocabulary in the English language.
In their honor, please use one word you would never ordinarily employ in everyday conversation. Mine is consanguineous (Via The Writer's Almanac).
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