A Voice in the Wind

I finished this fantastic book today and I am thanking my lucky stars that the first chapter of the next in its series is included in the back. Maybe that will hold me over til the second book gets here .... tomorrow. Please be tomorrow.

I collected a lot of words while reading this book, it was written so well. Francine Rivers created a vocabulary treasure trove in the telling of this story. Even the name of the protagonist rolls beautifully off the tongue. Hadassah. What follows is the latest installment of words for my Word Junkie collection. My love affair with well-chosen, strong, descriptive, and/or poetic words continues:

• inarticulate
• hobnailed
• bespoke
• dulcet
• throng
• quay
• obeisance
• vitriolic
• manacles
• chieftain
• unpardonable
• auspices
• visage
• denuded
• disquieted
• canter
• devilment
• rankled
• reverie
• unreasoning
• rancor
• drolly
• roiling
• squalid
• writhe
• loathsome
• mirthless
• intemperate
• catlike
• countenance
• acumen
• dictate
• coiffure
• sorrel
• swarthy
• charioteer
• cosseted
• foolery
• alacrity
• wastrel
• dalliance
• goblet
• beatific
• foisted
• regale
• satiation
• sojourns
• histrionics
• morose
• tremulous
• ardor
• hauteur
• harangue
• feral
• soulless
• personage
• finality
• citizenry
  

Word that Rivers uses too, too often: Sardonic