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Wednesday is the day I participate in Wondrous Words Wednesday. It’s the day we celebrate new words we find as we read. It still amazes me that I keep finding new words every week.
This week I’m sharing two words I found online. I was reading a New York Times review of the new TV show “Smash.” Here they are:
1. onerous: “It doesn’t help that she was saddled with the most onerous of the first season’s tedious and nonsensical subplots, which wrapped together adoption, infidelity and a difficult teenage son.”
Onerous means that a task, duty, or responsibility involves an amount of effort and difficulty that is oppressively burdensome.
2. outré: “But Broadway is a vicious, thrilling, glamorous place, and “Smash,” beyond some outré moments, has been small, wan and polite, more Hallmark than Bob Fosse.”
Outré is French and it means unusual and startling.
Wondrous Word Wednesday is sponsored by Kathy @ Bermuda Onion’s Weblog.
I’ve had to tackle some onerous chores in my day. I feel like I should have known outre but I didn’t. It’s a great word!
My French pronunciation is appalling so I’m woundering how to actually say outre in my mind (I don’t know that I would ever be brave enough to say it out loud in a sentence!!)
I’m new to WWW – I’m loving all this amazing word power and the new book possibilities
I often think of an “onerous burden”. Outré is an excellent word from the French!
outre was new for me..onerous i knew and have completed a few such tasks myself
Lovely words Margot. Onerous is a word that I love and use, I’ve seen outre before, but it’s not all that familiar for me.
I totally knew the first one but the second one was new for me!!