If you think you know a lot of English vocabulary, I heartily recommend Gene Wolf’s multi-volume Book of the New Sun: Shadow of the Torturer, Claw of the Conciliator, Sword of the Lictor, and Citadel of the Autarch.
As you might guess from the titles (!) Wolfe used obscure words (correctly!!) instead of making up new ones. The series takes place in a far-future earth (the moon is green!!!) and every page if not every paragraph is bedazzled with bon mots like some phrontistery.
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