The following are words from a book I read recently. I'd never come across these words and jotted them down. Any guess as to which book these words populate? It's a book I've referred to a couple of times.
effulgence
minatory
flocculent
feint
lassitude
stentorously miasma
vituporetions
derisory effluvia
purloined
etiolated velutinous
quotidian
perspicacity succubus
gambolling
somnambulist eructations
prelapsorian
civet
*by this time I am wondering if the author is just making words up"
plangent
*this last one has got to be a made up word!*
How many of these words do you know? And how many do you plan to use three times in a sentence today?
craquelured
sanguineous
assegaissozzled
fatuous
congeriescrepitant
ignominious
*by this time I am wondering if the author is just making words up"
plangent
torsion
truculent
suppurationsperfidy
catafalque
littoralanabasis
crapulent
*this last one has got to be a made up word!*
How many of these words do you know? And how many do you plan to use three times in a sentence today?
9 comments:
Crapulent? I'm adding that to my vocabulary!
Ooh, I know truculent!
Is the author Noah Webster?
I know 14. Looked up crapulent because that is a great word! I will be using it as often as I can!
Bish: I bow in reverence!
No, Not Webster. :)
This is a YA novel?
I always feel ...uneasy about my vocabulary in novels. I feel like all of my characters have to be AP or GATE students, otherwise there's no way they'd say half of what I want them to say...
...but I wasn't an AP or GATE student (I dropped all my honors classes because they were, and I quote myself, "boring.") so maybe there's something to be said for that type of vocabulary.
Are you reading Fire by Kristin Cashore? I doubt it has civet cats, though... Um... how about ...Sacred Scars? I have no idea, but I hope whatever you're reading is on my TBR list!!
No, not YA! I can't imagine these words appearing in YA novels. It's a grown-up book. One clue: it's from across the pond (from here in the US, that is.) Another clue: not a block buster. Third clue: won a major award.
I use six of the words and have heard a few of the ones I don't know before. Thank you Dictionary.com Word of the Day!
Coco: Nice. You mother must be very proud of you. In fact, I know she is. :)
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