New (old) words
Listed here are forgotten and newly acquired words discovered while reading
Blue Highways by, William Least Heat-Moon.
We are reading Blue Highways in celebration of William Least Heat-Moon's birthday: August 27, 1939. “When you're traveling, you are what you are, right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.” ~ William Least Heat - Moon Writing Blue Highways: William Least Heat-Moon - May 28, 2014
MERETRICIOUS: apparently attractive but having in reality no value or integrity.
ReplyDeletePERFIDIOUS: deceitful and untrustworthy.
ReplyDeleteTAWDRY: showy but cheap and of poor quality.
ReplyDeleteBOLSTER: a long, thick pillow that is placed under other pillows for support.
ReplyDeleteWHANGDOODLE: an imaginary creature of undefined character
ReplyDeleteQUODIBETS: a lighthearted medley of well-known tunes.
ReplyDeleteBROBDINGNAGIAN: gigantic
ReplyDeleteMACADAM: broken stone of even size used in successively compacted layers for surfacing roads and paths, and typically bound with tar or bitumen.
ReplyDeleteNUMEN: the spirit or divine power presiding over a thing or place.
ReplyDeleteCOPPICE: an area of woodland in which the trees or shrubs are, or formerly were, periodically cut back to ground level to stimulate growth and provide firewood or timber.
ReplyDeleteQUIETUDE: a state of stillness, calmness, and quiet in a person or place.
ReplyDeleteFLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION: the action or habit of estimating something as worthless.
ReplyDeleteSTASIS: a period or state of inactivity or equilibrium.
ReplyDeleteCARAPACE: something regarded as a protective or defensive covering.
ReplyDeleteAPPELLATION: a name or title.
ReplyDeleteSAGUAROS: is a tree-like cactus species that can grow to be over 12 meters (40 feet) tall. It is native to the Sonoran Desert in Arizona, the Mexican state of Sonora, and the Whipple Mountains and Imperial County areas of California.
ReplyDeleteDRUBBING: a beating; a thrashing.
ReplyDeleteFULMINOUS: of, involving, or resembling thunder and lightning
ReplyDeletePUDENDUM: a person's external genitals, especially a woman's.
ReplyDeleteJOUNCE: jolt or bounce.
ReplyDeleteARGY-BARGY: noisy quarreling or wrangling.
ReplyDeleteORT: a scrap or remainder of food from a meal.
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