What are your "Buzz Words"?

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By this, I mean, what are some words that you commonly say which are used slightly out of context, and could be construed as attempts to impress the listener with your verbal knowledge?

Here are some of mine, and the way I use them:

Trajectory - the progress of some personal goal.
Presently - something in the near future, not exactly the present.
Aggregate - a collection of anything.
Leverage - the ability to change something.
Disconnect - a failure or inconsistency.
Infrastructure - the inner workings of just about anything.
Construct - a social or mental system.

These are just a few.
Please share some of yours

Describing schizophrenic people as "apparently schizophrenic", rather than just "schizophrenic".

This is because it impressed on me so much that an online friend came out with their mental illness by describing herself as "apparently schizophrenic" rather than just "schizophrenic".

Indeterminate - Something unknown
Cataclysm - Great disaster
Octogenarian - Someone really old (80 to be exact)
Surreptitiously - Secretly or quietly
Ostensibly - Outward seemingly
Vorarephilia - Fetish of devouring/being devoured
Apothecary - Drug dealer
pulled a Rip Van Winkle - Said whenever I used to fall asleep in class
Perpendicularly inclined individual - Rebel without a cause

I like the words dearth, prosaic, and apellation.

I like knowing that a sponge is a ctenophore and a jellyfish is a cnidaria.

I like epigram.

I just like words. I don't say them to impress anyone, really.