No other Bond villain can match the sheer snobbery of Hugo Drax in Moonraker. A large part of it comes from his vocabulary, which hovers somewhere between eloquence and outright grandiloquence. Okay so I admit I looked up fancy words to describe using fancy words and grandiloquence appeared, but it’s a perfect word to mimic Drax himself. But aside from the vocabulary, it’s also Michael Lonsdale’s quiet yet unmistakably authoritative baritone delivery that sells it.

And I certainly had never heard, much less used, “munificence” before Drax. Now that I know it means extreme generosity, and understand the delightfully sarcastic way he uses it while sending Bond and Dr. Goodhead to their own “crematories,” I find myself irrationally determined to work it into everyday conversation. Preferably in situations far less homicidal.