Reading time: Less than 1 minute Increase your vocabulary and you’ll make your writing much more precise. That’s why I provide a word of the week. Today’s word: estival… To me the word estival looks like a typo. Didn’t they mean festival and just forget the F? But, no, it’s a word in itself as […]
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Reading time: Less than 1 minute Increase your vocabulary and you’ll make your writing much more precise. That’s why I provide a word of the week. Today’s word: ineludible… I often like first novels because, while sometimes flawed, they often display an edge or a nerve that’s sometimes missing from more carefully-crafted second novels. My
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Reading time: Less than 1 minute Increase your vocabulary and you’ll make your writing much more precise. That’s why I provide a word of the week. Today’s word: epiphanic… When I recently learned the meaning of the word epiphanic, I slapped myself over the head for not having figured it out earlier. I encountered the word
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Reading time: Less than 1 minute Increase your vocabulary and you’ll make your writing much more precise. That’s why I provide a word of the week. Today’s word: coeval… When I read the novel The Incendiaries by R.O. Kwon, I enountered more than my usual number of new-to-me words. One I particularly liked the sound
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Reading time: Less than 1 minute Increase your vocabulary and you’ll make your writing much more precise. That’s why I provide a word of the week. Today’s word: shambolic…. When I read the word shambolic in the a memoir by Steve Jobs’ daughter, Lisa Brennan-Jobs, I knew immediately what she meant. She was talking about
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Reading time: Less than 1 minute Increase your vocabulary and you’ll make your writing much more precise. That’s why I provide a word of the week. Today’s word: serried…. My husband is reading the 1950 book Escape to Adventure, by Fitzroy Maclean. Not quite my cup of tea, the 419-page book is subtitled: The adventure-autobiography of
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Reading time: Less than 1 minute Increase your vocabulary and you’ll make your writing much more precise. That’s why I provide a word of the week. Today’s word: daedal…. You might know Daedalus as the prisoner who fashioned wings of feathers and wax to escape from the island of Crete with his son Icarus. (He’s
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Reading time: Less than 1 minute Increase your vocabulary and you’ll make your writing much more precise. That’s why I provide a word of the week. Today’s word: prelapsarian…. It was the headline that grabbed my attention. “How to Write a Bestseller,” promised the blog post written by Adam O’Fallon Price and published on the
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Reading time: Less than 1 minute Increase your vocabulary and you’ll make your writing much more precise. That’s why I provide a word of the week. Today’s word: epicanthic… Even though there is a doctor in my family, my understanding of medical terminology is weak. (I was always a word nerd, never a science geek.)
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Reading time: Less than 1 minute Increase your vocabulary and you’ll make your writing much more precise. That’s why I provide a word of the week. Today’s word: androgynous… I think just about everyone knows the term, androgynous means, “partly male and partly female in appearance; of indeterminate sex.” The photo atop this post shows a
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