In my experience, most people who use "relatively obscure words" are doing it to provide a precise nuance, not to "sound important". What's the point of accumulating a large vocabulary through years of reading if you eschew certain words as being "pretentious"?

Can you explain how "a summary" would have failed to convey the same level of precision as "a précis" gives?

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