It's July,
and that means I'm busy trying to cobble together 30.000 words for
camp nanowrimo.
But as
always, it's also Monday, and that means Eccentric Spheres gets a new
update. In the spirit of creative writing, here are some words most
English speakers might not be too familiar with:
Absquatulate - to
leave abruptly
Boffola - a
joke that gets a loud laugh
Chad - the
piece of paper that is left when using a hole punch
Degust - to
eat slowly in order to really enjoy the taste
Eucatastrophe - a
happy ending
Fugacious - fleeting
or transient
Gnathic - to
do with the jaw
Humdudgeon - imaginary
illness
Incunabula - books
printed before 1501
Jentacular - having
to do with breakfast
Keek - to
sneak a peek
Logomachy - an
argument about words
Minacious - scary
or threatening
Noyade - execution
by drowning
Otalgia - earache
Peterman - a
person who opens and robs safes
Quire - 24
sheets of paper
Rubiginious - rust
colored
Sesquipedalian - a
person who uses excessively long words
Toplofty - an
arrogant person
Umbriferous - shady
Vicinal - adjacent
or next to
Winklepicker - 1950's
style shoe with pointy toe
Xertz - to
gulp down greedily
Yarborough - a
hand of cards with no card above a nine in value
Zetetic - proceeding
by inquiry or investigation
There
you go, a whole list of words you probably didn't know. At least I
didn't.
Until
we see each other again next time, have a great week!
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