I picked up a handful of new words in a really interesting read over the past two weeks - The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd. Here's what I nabbed ... in words AND a few delicious phrases/quotes I wanted to keep as well. Favorite words got lucky enough to be in bold and defined here for your reading pleasure. :D
- intermezzo
- cerise - deep to vivid reddish pink
- umbrage - offense or annoyance; shade or shadow - especially as cast by trees
- ovoid
- jib
- shilly-shally - indecisive behavior
- privet
- mulattoes
- exigency - urgent need or demand
- grog
- scuppernongs
- trenchant
- pilloried - to attack or ridicule publicly
- elegiac - having a mournful quality, especially a work of art
- fleabane
- armature
- rheumy - watery
- There was so much in the world to be had and not had.
- The ache of mis-belonging
- There's a frightful muteness that swells at the center of all unspeakable things, and I had found my way into it.
- ... fast as I could, fast at the earth would pass beneath me.
- ... and I hated being a slave worse than being dead. The hate I felt for it glittered so full of beauty I sank down on the floor before it.
- The phantom of what might have been, the terrible allure of it could still snatch me.
2 comments:
Your word posts always intrigue me. And just so you know, I signed up for dictionary.com's "word of the day" email after a vocab conversation with my husband when I told him about Noah's curriculum. ;-)
I felt a teeny bit impressed with myself though when I knew three words on your list: grog, mulattoe, and scuppernong (Shan's uncles grow scuppernongs in Alabama).
Shilly-shally is such a good word for indecisiveness. It just SOUNDS right.
Those phrases you included really make me curious about the book. Is it one you'd recommend?
Then I need to see your list of cool new words, missy!
And, yes - Shilly-shally totally hints in its name as to what it's about. :D
And I would definitely recommend The Invention of Wings. There were so many spots she threw in such beautiful verbage and language. I would stop in the story and read them over and over again just to think on them longer. Well written story!
You know you are my best kindred spirit, right?
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