Words I have collected along my reading way these past months. Faves in bold.
- sangfroid - composure or coolness under trying circumstances
- chicanery - the use of trickery to achieve a political, financial, or legal purpose
- coxcomb - a vain and conceited man
- agglomeration - a mass or collection of things; assemblage
- fundament - the foundation or basis of something
- palaver - unnecessarily elaborate or complex procedure
- philippic - a bitter attack or denunciation, especially a verbal one
- fulvous - reddish yellow; tawny
- paregoric - a camphorated tincture of opium used to relieve pain
- fantods - a state or attack of uneasiness or unreasonableness
- cynosure - a person or thing that is the center of attention or admiration
- lickerish - lecherous
- coulee - a deep ravine
- clement - mild
- inglenook - a space on either side of a large fireplace
2 comments:
These word lists always make me smile. Not that your other posts don't. But I love that you love words and make lists of them. My favorite on this list was paregoric.
Have you read anything by Gene Stratton Porter? I rediscovered her in the last couple of years... rediscovered as I remember vaguely Girl of the Limberlost from high school. But I have really enjoyed The Keeper of the Bees and Freckles and plan to reread Girl of the Limberlost soon as I can't remember if I really ever read it before.
I haven't! Scoping her out now. Thanks for the recommendation!
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