Bermudaonion asks you to share new words that you have learned during your reading adventures in the last week. Feel free to join in the fun!
Here are a couple new words I learned as I've been reading the Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood:
Pedantic: ostentatious in one's learning.
Here is how pedantic was used on page 11:
I used to tease him about being pedantic.
Lugubrious: mournful, dismal, or gloomy.
Here is how lugubrious was used on page 54:
Sometimes I sing to myself, in my head; something lugubrious, mournful, presbyterian:
Pronatalist: the policy or practice of encouraging the bearing of children.
Here is how pronatalist was used on page 120:
My oldest buddy Tricia accused me of being pronatalist, the bitch.
So those were the new words that I learned this week. How about you?
Nice list of words! I love learning new ones (or playing games with words in my head). Like I saw lugubrious and thought, hmmm... means mournful, so if you changed it to "legumbrious" would those be gloomy beans? Sad, I know. . .
ReplyDeleteI always suspected Margaret Atwood would use lots of great words - maybe that's why I'm so intimidated by her work. Thanks for participating today!
ReplyDeleteI knew pedantic and I like Lugubrious!
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