Joyfully Retired

Wednesday is Word Day, Wondrous Word day to be exact. Kathy (Bermuda Onion) is our hostess for this weekly gathering.

Today I want to share some words I discovered in various places.

1. resplendent: I was reading a newspaper article this week about the fact that musicians won’t be singing their nominated songs at the Oscars. The writer said, “. . . and Celine Dion’s resplendent performance of the ‘Titanic’ hit, ‘My Heart Will Go On,’ in 1998.”

I’ve seen the word before and figured it probably meant something like beautiful. So I decided if the newspaper writer was working on improving his vocabulary, I could too. So I looked it up. I use the dictionary that came with my laptop. It said that resplendent means attractive and impressive through being richly colorful or sumptuous. I like that and I’m going to see if I can’t use that word more often.

2. sardonic: I was reading a short story by Barbara D’Amato, and saw this: Bennis was sardonic but not sour.

Sardonic means grimly mocking or cynical.

3. somnambulism: This word is from a graphic novel (Britten and Brulightly).

His air of somnambulism was well suited to the restaurant whose blind eye would be turned at the drop of a decent tip.

Somnambulism means sleepwalking.

That’s it for my week. How was your week? Were you lucky enough to find some new words?