Joyfully Retired

What did I do before I started playing this word-hunt game every Wednesday? I have managed to find new-to-me words every single week for over a year. I see them everywhere. I must have been reading in a fog all those years. Here’s what I found this week.
1. collation: “I’ll go for water while [...]

Thanks to Kathy/Bermuda Onion for this engaging game we play each week. We gather together all the new words we’ve discovered in our reading and share them with you.
This week I found a bunch of new words in an editorial I was reading in the online New York Times. The writer was talking about whether [...]

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 [...]

Wednesday is the day I gather the new (to me) words I’ve come across in my reading. Wondrous Word Wednesday is hosted by Kathy/Bermda Onion.
Often, as I’m reading, I can figure out a new word from the context of the sentence. Here are a couple of examples from The Sittaford Mystery (reviewed yesterday) where it [...]

Thanks so much to Kathy/Bermuda Onion for hosting this weekly look at new (to us) words we discover in our reading.
My words this week come from reading His Eye Is On The Sparrow by Ethel Waters.
1. dictys: I thought this snobbish house policy–color discrimination against some of our own people by the dictys–ridiculous and laughable.
Dicty [...]

It’s been one year – 52 editions of Wondrous Words Wednesday. Kathy (Bermuda Onion) started this great weekly feature a year ago. I’m so glad she did. It’s been great fun paying attention to new words as I read.
I haven’t counted up the numbers but, let’s say I discovered just two words a week. Over [...]

Wondrous Words Wednesday is one of my favorite memes sponsored by Kathy/Bermuda Onion. It’s the day we report on the words we’ve discovered in our reading.
I love reading Agatha Christie’s novels but they always contain words that are new to me. I found a couple in Murder at the Vicarage.
1.  defalcation: He wants to go over [...]