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Wondrous Words #14
Thanks to Kathy at Bermuda Onion’s Weblog for hosting our weekly gathering of new words. My words this week have come from Royal Blood by Rona Sharon. There were so many new words in this book that I could go on for pages. I picked a few that I thought were fun.
- lugubriously: Michael was lugubriously conscious of the fact that he was not especially fear-provoking. Lugubriously means looking or sounding sad and dismal.
- vulpine: Thin lips stretched over even teeth in a vulpine smile. Vulpine means cunning or crafty.
- pellucid: She was pellucid to him. She liked him, and she knew he liked her. Pellucid means easily understood.
- sybaritic: “You sybaritic fool. He would use you.” Sybaritic means self indulgent, luxurious, or extravagant.
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You found some great words this week! I’d have to keep a dictionary handy if I read Royal Blood. Thanks for participating this week!
Pellucid is a new one. Great words.
I found some great words this week.
Sybaritic and vulpine both sound like words I would use. My words are here:
http://jo-jolovestoread.blogspot.com/2009/05/wondrous-words-wednesday-may-13.html
I love all these words so much! I’ve heard them before, but don’t see them used enough to always remember them. The one way I tend to remember “vulpine” is by somehow connecting it to “vulture.” Don’t know why that works.
Anyway, my solitary word this week is at Bookishgal.
Great words! I love rich language in books, like in Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett. I sometimes forget how beautiful the English language is, and these books remind me.
p.s. I looked up vulpine and discovered that in Latin it means “fox” or “foxy”. How cool is that!
Ha! Mandy had the same thought I did … I wondered if vulpine was somehow animal related, and she found the answer for me. Thanks, Mandy for doing the legwork, and thanks to Margot for introducing me to the word.