I just started reading Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls and I've already learned a couple of new words:
Mendacious: telling lies, especially habitually; dishonest; lying; untruthful.
Here is how mendacious was used on page 13:
His handwriting was elegant, if a little spidery, and his sentences were long and extravagant, filled with words like "mendacious" and "abscond" that most of the folks in Toyah would need a dictionary to understand.
Digraph: a pair of letters representing a single speech sound, as ea in meat or th in path.
Here is how digraph was used on page 14:
Digraphs such as "sh" and "ph" infuriated him, and silent letters made him grieve.
I'm enjoying this book so far and it even evoked laughter from me during my lunch today!
2 comments:
I had no idea there was a word for two letters used for one sound. That's interesting! I think I can remember it since it starts with di!
Mendacious I knew, digraph is new for me too.
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