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Word of the Week: verisimilitude (vĕr-ə-sĭ-MĬL-ĭ-tōōd)

Stephanie Whetstone2020-04-16T16:07:30-04:00

Word of the Week: verisimilitude (vĕr-ə-sĭ-MĬL-ĭ-tōōd) Definition (Noun) The fact or quality of being verisimilar; the appearance of being true or real; likeness or resemblance to truth, reality, or fact; probability. In Context "Today, of course, photographers no longer have such a struggle to achieve verisimilitude, since the camera and lens automatically produce perspectival images, the illusion of depth in photographs." David Bate, Photography: The Key Concepts, 2009.

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Word of the Week: dudgeon (DŬJ-ən)

Stephanie Whetstone2020-04-16T16:03:49-04:00

Word of the Week: dudgeon (DŬJ-ən) Definition (Noun) A feeling of anger, resentment, or offence; ill humor. Almost always in phrase in dudgeon, and especially with qualifying adjective, as high, great, deep. In Context "He would stop the music and in high dudgeon inform his musicians that their notes resembled the sounds produced by (to paraphrase his words) a dozen goats flatulating through an equal number of downspouts, a metaphorical description defying need of further exploration." Robert W. Topping, Just Call Me Orville: The Story of Orville Redenbacher, 2011.

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Word of the Week: rodomontade (rŏd-ə-mŏn-TĀD)

Stephanie Whetstone2020-04-16T15:49:43-04:00

Word of the Week: rodomontade (rŏd-ə-mŏn-TĀD) Definition (Noun) Extravagant boasting or bragging; bravado; boastful or bombastic language. In Context "Their conversation was interspersed with oaths like minute guns, and every bombastic rodomontade was rounded off by a thundering execration, like a patriotic toast honored with a discharge of artillery." Diedrich Knickerbocker [Washington Irving], A History of New York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty, 1809.

Word of the Week: rodomontade (rŏd-ə-mŏn-TĀD)Stephanie Whetstone2020-04-16T15:49:43-04:00

Word of the Week: garrulous (GĂR-ə-ləs)

Stephanie Whetstone2020-04-16T15:40:11-04:00

Word of the Week: garrulous (GĂR-ə-ləs) Definition (Adjective) Given to much talking; fond of indulging in talk or chatter; loquacious, talkative. In Context “This book is like a beloved, garrulous uncle who has no idea when to stop.” Dwight Garner, “Of Women, Politics and Laughs,” The New York Times, January 5, 2012.

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Word of the Week: sphagnum (SFĂG-nəm)

Stephanie Whetstone2020-04-16T15:37:35-04:00

Word of the Week: sphagnum (SFĂG-nəm) Definition (Noun) A genus of mosses growing in boggy or swampy places; bog-moss, peat moss; also, one or other of the species or plants composing this genus. In Context “In 1914 sphagnum dressings were given a thorough try-out at one of the large war hospitals in Scotland, and the results proved so satisfactory that sphagnum was at once recommend for general use.” George E. Nichols, “Sphagnum Moss: War Substitute for Cotton in Absorbent Surgical Dressings,” Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution [1918], 1920. This word was suggested by Dan Day in [...]

Word of the Week: sphagnum (SFĂG-nəm)Stephanie Whetstone2020-04-16T15:37:35-04:00

Word of the Week: gibber (JĬB-ǝr)

Stephanie Whetstone2020-04-16T15:24:46-04:00

Word of the Week: gibber (JĬB-ǝr) Definition (Verb) To speak rapidly and inarticulately; to chatter, talk nonsense. Said also of an ape. In Context “He gazed out at the Pacific again, as if daring it to rave and gibber at him, but it lay there calmly and played with the sandpipers.” Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, 1984.

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Word of the Week: recondite (RĔK-ən-dīt)

Stephanie Whetstone2020-04-16T15:21:52-04:00

Word of the Week: recondite (RĔK-ən-dīt) Definition (Adjective) Especially of a subject of study or discussion: little known or understood; abstruse, obscure; profound. In Context “He relentlessly sought and printed the strangest of words from the most repugnant areas, some by direct contact with the people that used them, but most of them from dusty old recondite collections of slang and cant words from the 17th century onwards.” Robert Burchfield, “The Solo Lexicographer,” The Guardian, June 7, 1994. This word was suggested by Rand Mirante ’70 in the Office of Development.

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Word of the Week: diaphanous (dī-ĂF-ə-nəs)

Stephanie Whetstone2020-04-16T15:22:21-04:00

Word of the Week: diaphanous (dī-ĂF-ə-nəs) Definition (Adjective) Permitting the free passage of light and vision; perfectly transparent; pellucid. In Context “An ethereal full-length evening gown in diaphanous layers of claret and coffee silk chiffon ($250) by the couturier John Anthony, who made dresses for Jacqueline Kennedy, still bore its original tag – a jaw-dropping $12,500.” Zarah Crawford, “After Lunching, the Ladies Go Shopping,” The New York Times, April 19, 2007.

Word of the Week: diaphanous (dī-ĂF-ə-nəs)Stephanie Whetstone2020-04-16T15:22:21-04:00

Word of the Week: raree show (RÂR-ē shō)

Stephanie Whetstone2020-04-16T15:17:13-04:00

Word of the Week: raree show (RÂR-ē shō) Definition (Noun) In extended use: an exhibition, show, or spectacle of any kind, especially one regarded as lurid, vulgar, or populist. In Context “There are times, on the contrary, when one gets the impression that her successor, King James, regarded the ceremonial antics of his scholars in Cambridge as providing a sort of raree show.” Elisabeth Leedham-Green, A Concise History of the University of Cambridge, 1996.

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Word of the Week: conundrum (kə-NŬN-drəm)

Stephanie Whetstone2020-04-16T15:14:20-04:00

Word of the Week: conundrum (kə-NŬN-drəm) Definition (Noun) Any puzzling question or problem; an enigmatical statement. In Context “The North’s recent belligerence poses a conundrum for China, which has long seen the poor police state as a buffer against the alliance between the United States and South Korea.” Jane Perlez, “China Bluntly Tells North Korea to Enter Nuclear Talks,” The New York Times, May 24, 2013.

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