Joyfully Retired

Thanks to Kathy at Bermuda Onion’s Weblog for hosting this weekly feature in which we share with you the new words we’ve come across in our reading. My list this week is varied. Two came from blogs I read and one from a magazine. Aren’t you glad to know that bloggers use big words too?

1. I saw this new word on Teri’s blog, Reading, Writing and Retirement. It was from a Teaser Tuesday (6/9) post. From The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff, page 88:
Carapace: When I was small and easily wounded, books were my carapace. If I were recalled to my hurts in the middle of a book, they somehow mattered less. My corporeal life was slight; the dazzling one in my head was what really mattered. Returning to books was coming home.

Carapace means the hard upper shell of a turtle or crustacean.

2. This new word came from the June issue of Wild West magazine. The article was The Man Who Arrested Doc Holliday.

Pestiferous: Doc Holliday’s reputation was forged in blood in Tombstone, Arizona Territory, but his legend grew in Colorado, thanks to a pestiferous con man named Perry Mallon.

Pestiferous means harboring infection and disease. Also used humorously – constituting a pest or nuisance; annoying.

3. And this new word was on Jill’s Rhaphsody in Books in a review of Moby Dick.

Edacious: It is a epic and staggering tale every bit as big as its subject matter–the largest of all living creatures and the edacious, relentless men who hunt and kill them.

Edacious – of, relating to or given to eating