word of the day

C just used the word "peripatetic" in an email to describe our planned activity for Saturday afternoon. She wanted 50 cents for using the word. I told her i'd give her a dollar since i had to go look it up.

The good folks at Wikipedia tell me it means "wandering".

Why is there such a difficult, stressful and complicated word for an activity that is so not about any of that?

Methinks i'm taking my loonie back.