do you consider yourself as a person with a wide lexicon??

Answer 1

Not really. I'd say I'm more a person with a spiffy vocabularic range, though with enough polysyllabic and anachronistic turns of verbiage that I can verge on the pedantic.

Answer 2

Yes. Though even if ones vocabulary is extensive
and contains a great depth and breadth, it is not
necessary to decorate every sentence. People
who write well (even individuals with wide lexicons)
choose not to festoon their statements with frills,
furbelows, flora and fauna simply because
they can--because no one wants
to have to read with a dictionary in one hand and a
machete in the other. The best writing is neither
lean nor fat. All that excess verbiage
is better left beneath the red line of the editor's pen,
as the writer chooses to employ words that are
not the most ostentatious but merely the most apropos.

Answer 3

Yes, but I'm trying to diet. (Sorry, had to say that)
Actually I do consider myself to have a wide lexicon, but I have found that depending on the people around you, and the situation, it is best to be quiet about your knowledge and impart it graciously and only when asked.

Answer 4

I wouldn't call my lexicon "wide", but perhaps extensive, not to say ostentatious. I do have a penchant for recondite contumely.

Answer 5

Reddy: My sentiments exactly. Sometimes I border on the super-verbose.