Wondrous Words Wednesday 4-29-15

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. All of this week’s words come from Purple Prose by John Flanagan, a short story set in the world of his Ranger’s Apprentice series.

Fulsome - expressing something (such as praise or thanks) in a very enthusiastic or emotional way.

Felicitous - well-suited for the occasion, as an action, manner, or expression; apt; appropriate.

Contumelious - insolently abusive and humiliating

Multifarious – of many and various kinds

Temerity - the quality of being confident and unafraid of danger or punishment especially in a way that seems rude or foolish.

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Deanna

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Wondrous Words Wednesday 4-22-15

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.

1. Eluvium (n.) – sand or silt, the stuff often deposited at the end of the river. In a grander sense, it refers to the sand or silt gods create stuff from. Co-Cap used this in a poem at our biweekly writer’s thing. I knew he was useful for something. (Don’t tell him I said that.)

2. Glaive (n.) – a European polearm weapon I already knew this, but someone mentioned it in conversation, and I was reminded of its awesomeness, both as a word and as an object.

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Deanna

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