Wednesday Word of the Week: pococurante
Word: pococurante
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: indifferent, nonchalant.
Sentence: The girl seemed to deal with her schoolwork in a pococurante manner.
Word: pococurante
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: indifferent, nonchalant.
Sentence: The girl seemed to deal with her schoolwork in a pococurante manner.
Word: ameliorate
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: To make better or more tolerable.
Sentence: More nutritious food, would ameliorate the life of children in surrounding villages.
Word: delitescent
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: concealed, hidden; latent.
Sentence: The child sat delitescent in the bushes, hoping nobody would see her.
Word: euonym
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: A name well suited to the person, place or thing named.
Sentence: Harold Payne was a euonym, for the dentist in the office.
Word: clandestine
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: marked by, held by or conducted with secrecy: surreptitious
Sentence: The gang held their meetings in the basement of an old abandoned warehouse in a cladestine way.
Word: logorrhea
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: Excessive talkativeness or wordiness. (me!) <—kidding!
Sentence: This date would be the last one for the couple, as her logorrhea was more than he could handle.
Dear Nicole, I was really excited to stumble upon your blog from Julie’s. One of my favorite things that you do is the Word of the Week or Words of Wisdom as you sometimes call it. I’ve always thought it was important for writer’s, authors and the like to have a much larger vocabulary than [...]
Word: prospicience
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: The act of looking forward; foresight.
Sentence: Filled with prospicience, the recent college graduate began her career search.
Word: multifarious
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: Having or occuring in great variety, diverse.
Sentence: The writer’s group held mutifarious personalities.
Word: thimblerig
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: To cheat by trickery.
Sentence: The jewelry appraiser looked closely at the diamond and then reluctantly explained that we had been thimblerigged into buying a worthless diamond.
Just a reminder for what the purpose of the Wednesday Word Of Wisdom is. I started this to not only better my vocabulary for my writing, but [...]