Surely you know an instructor who can't stand to use a small, simple word when a pompous (self-important), pretentious (making claim to some importance, ostentatious) one can be used instead. Here are some fancy terms you can use when conversing with that pedagogue (a pedantic, dogmatic teacher).

• febrile (fee brull): feverish (don't confuse this word with feeble).
• hypochondriac (high poe con dree ack): person abnormally anxious over health, especially an imagined illness.
• languish (rhymes with, anguish): to fail in health; become weak.
• malaise (rhymes with, pal gaze): physical discomfort early in an illness.
• nocuous (knock you us): harmful, poisonous, or noxious.
• noisome (rhymes with, boys some): injurious to health; harmful (this word also means foul-smelling).
• valetudinarian (valley tude in air ee un): person in poor health (don't confuse this word with valedictorian).