One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you're maybe a little bit ashamed of your short ones. This is like dressing up a household pet in evening clothes. The pet is embarrassed and the person who committed this act of premeditated cuteness should be even more embarrassed.
Stephen KingThere are things of such darkness and horrorโjust, I suppose, as there are things of such great beautyโthat they will not fit through the puny human doors of perception.
Stephen King