Bookworm’s WordBook #1
“Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by.” – A.S. Byatt
If you’re a bookworm, book enthusiast or a booknerd (however you want to call it), big complicated words are like potholes on the road while you’re driving or shark encounters while you’re diving. The point is you’ll get these words thrown at your face a lot while you’re reading. Not that it’s a bad thing, in fact it’s good, hence why we’re calling this post the Bookworm’s Wordbook. Every once in a while, we’ll cover a list of interesting words which we find worth mentioning for your reference, entertainment or even for you to kill some time. Oh did we mention that you’ll get to find ebooks that have these words in it? Enjoy!
1. Abecedarian
arranged alphabetically.
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2. Acquiesce
accept something reluctantly but without protest.
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3. Susurrus
whispering or rustling.
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4. Onomatopoeia
the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named (e.g. cuckoo, sizzle).
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5. Pulchritude
beauty.
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6. Loquacious
tending to talk a great deal; talkative.
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7. Phosphorescent
Phosphorescence is when something glows with light without becoming hot to the touch, like the glow-in-the-dark stars on your bedroom ceiling.
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8. Tintinnabulation
a ringing or tinkling sound.
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9. Rhubarb
[1]the thick reddish or green leaf stalks of a cultivated plant of the dock family, which are eaten as a fruit after cooking.
[2]the large-leaved Eurasian plant which produces rhubarb.
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10. Defenestration
[formal humorous] the action of throwing someone out of a window.
[informal] the action of dismissing someone from a position of power or authority.
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11. Callipygian
having well-shaped buttocks.
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