Striven?

That's an example of the type of word that, while correct, will get you beat up. Even when you try to educate, and show that it's just a different tense of the word "strive", which is perfectly common, right? no, it's no good, you're an egghead. The mocking of someone who is smarter than you, BECAUSE they are smarter, is 6th grade stuff, right? Well, I used to think so, but now it apparently ok for law students to advertise the fact that they are stupider than their classmates, in order to avoid a verbal pieing. That's "pieing," as in "hit with many pies preferably in the face." Law students! That'll be a good thing in a few years when someone comes in and says, "I need your help, I'm being sued because of a perfectly innocuous comment I made!" and the attorney says, "Whoa, whoa, whoa! Let's take it easy on the 50-cent words, ok? What the heck is 'innocuous?' Let's speak English here people!" That lawyer will surely inspire people to hire him. Just wait til he gives the judge guff for using big words. Fireworks. Neat.