Taciturnity used in a sentence

Taciturnity in a sentence as a noun

Here are four words I don't know in just the first paragraph: garrulous, taciturnity, voluble, reticence.

I'd suggest that it's not so much the particular words, it's that all the "oddball" words in the sentence are directly Latin-derived -- garrulous, taciturnity, voluble, reticence.

I think taciturnity arises from a general "engineering" orientation.

I feel like the author was having a lot of fun with his thesaurus:"He has a lifelong habit of collecting garrulous friends and yet a tendency to induce some measure of taciturnity in all but the most voluble of them.