Friday, February 16, 2007

Loving Words

TagFest: Words

When I discovered the Dictionary program on my computer, I started looking up interesting words I happened upon while reading. Some were words I didn't know; some were ones I was just curious to see how they were defined. Here are some of my favorites:

assiduity: constant or close attention to what one is doing

bugbear: a cause of obsessive fear, irritation, or loathing

effusion: an instance of giving off something such as a liquid, light, or smell (medicine: an escape of fluid into a body cavity)

effulgent: shining brightly; radiant; (of a person or their expression) emanating joy or goodness

encomium: a speech or piece of writing that praises someone or something highly

shambolic: chaotic, disorganized, or mismanaged

and of course

rant: to speak or shout at length in a wild, impassioned way

4 comments:

  1. I like your choice of words with which to enlight us. Thank you.

    Mom W

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  2. I think I should be thanking you for encouraging me to love words and books and stories...

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  3. Me, too!

    Although I have to confess to a bit of showing off at work. I tend to use words at times that no one there knows the meaning of. When they ask me what they mean, I tell them what I think and then bring out Webster to see what the "real" definition is. I've been right way more often than I've been wrong. Does anyone else feel like they have to "dumb down" what they do sometimes?

    awp

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  4. I think I'm lucky that I work with pretty smart people. Sometimes I learn new words from them.

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