No, not Deni Hines, nor the Rockmellons

There is a word that I like very much, but have thus far found impossible to fit into a spoken sentence with a straight face. I have long wanted to slip it in casually, but my nerve hasn’t held. It is almost like I am scared of it.

I’m not worried about misusing it, you understand, as its meaning is clear. It’s a word regularly see in literature. Over the years I’ve seen it in print, and even in the odd quasi-religious text, which may have contributed to keeping me away.

The only person that I’ve personally seen slip it in to casual conversation is the formidable VINCE, whose personality really does demand Caps Lock, and is the sort of person happy to use such a word.

Perhaps that’s it. Perhaps I need to work up a more imposing presence, and then whack it on the table. It is a difficult decision. I don’t seem to struggle with others, but I’ve built up a reverence for this one.

All right then, the word:
crepuscular

It’s a doozy, isn’t it?

So here are my questions for the world:

1. Do you have a similar such word?
   
2. How might I just ease it in to casual conversation?
   
3. Would you be prepared to give it a go to popularise it, and thus ease my burden?
   

[And here I was complaining about people complaining!]