Category Archives: Week 35

Week Thirty-Five: Linguaphiled

‘Refulgent’ by Jon Erickson
A cheat sheet for the dilatory – here are the last week’s words of the day from dictionary.com:

sacrosanct: sacred; inviolable.
refulgent: brilliant; resplendent.
malapropism: the usually unintentionally humorous misuse of a word.
noisome: offensive or disgusting; also, harmful; unwholesome.
puissant: powerful.
inure: to make used to; also, to take or have effect.
bucolic: rustic; pastoral.

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Week Thirty-Five [Guest Post!]: Word to the Wise

Modern life DOES demand verbal knowledge. True dat.
This week we have a Guest Post written by that rakish gentleman Wild Particle, with the help of his trusty copy of Norman Lewis’s 1979 magnum opus “Word Power Made Easy”. Word power means success! Teach us, W!
This week it is time to level-up your vocabulary!
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