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Wondrous Words Wednesday is a fun meme I love to play each week. It keeps me looking for new words wherever I’m reading.
While reading Princess Academy by Shannon Hale I found these two words:
1. scree: Rock debris was strewn and stacked and piled deeper than Miri could dig, and scree littered the slopes that touched the village lanes.
Scree is a mass of small loose stones that form or cover a slope on a mountain.
2. interlocutor: “You must know your rank and that of your interlocutor,” said Olana.
Interlocutor seemed familiar to me but I couldn’t recall it. Olana is referring to a person who takes part in a dialogue or conversation.
Wondrous Word Wednesday is sponsored by Kathy @ Bermuda Onion’s Weblog.
Interlocutor seems familiar to me when I see it but not when I try to pronounce it. The definition doesn’t ring a bell either, so I suspect I have it confused with another word. Thanks for being such a loyal participant, Margot!
I’ve heard scree before, before I thought it was something else! Interlocutor is a good one to know and remember.
Both of those words are new to me. I went to M-W website to her the pronunciation of interlocutor and it is a bit of a tongue twister (at least for me).
Great words.
I’ve walked over scree slopes in my younger days as a bushwalker so got up close and personal to that word, sometimes it was rather terrifying actually.
Hi Margot,
It seems as though many of us have taken our words from YA books this week and to be honest, there are some excellent stories out there in the genre. It really is difficult to distinguish between books aimed at the YA and adult market, the gap is too close to call!
I am so happy that I have actually found a contributor to the meme, where I know all the words, I was beginning to worry about the level of my intelect!
Please forgive me if I gloat a little … it is a very rare occurrence! LOL
Yvonne.
I feel a little bit smarter today as I knew these words!! Where’s my gold star???