Welcome to this week’s Wondrous Words Wednesday, hosted by The Bermuda Onion.
Here’s how it works. Find a new word(s)? Blog about it/them and then link up at the host blog.
Here are my words for the week.
Striae - a band, line, streak, or stripe.
Amictic - incapable of being fertilized : parthenogenetic: producing eggs that develop without fertilization
Chicanery - 1 : deception by artful subterfuge or sophistry : trickery 2 : a piece of sharp practice (as at law) : trick
Geek on,
Deanna
I knew two out of three. Thanks for making me feel smart today. Amictic is new to me - I'm curious about the context you found it in.
ReplyDeleteFunny story, actually. I went to look up amici, but I couldn't get a good definition. Somehow or other, I found myself looking at the next and previous words in the dictionary. Amictic was the next word. I didn't know what it meant, so I looked it up. And now it's here.
DeleteThree new words for me.
ReplyDeleteTwo new words for me. That first one is interesting.
ReplyDeleteI remember chicanery from high school or college but the other words are new to me.
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