W is for Words

Words.  I love words.  I love discovering new words.  I love trying to work them into conversation. 

I have started a collection of words that, for one reason or another, have intrigued me.

 

• Vilipend – v. to regard or treat as of little value or account; to vilify, depreciate
• Terpsichorean – adj. pertaining to dance; a dancer
• Psithurisma –n.  a whisper or a whispering sound
• Pluvious – adj. of or pertaining to rain; rainy
• Obumbrate – v. to varken, overshadow, or cloud; n. Obsolete, overshadowed, darkened
• Nemophilist – n. lover of forests
• Hamartia – n. tragic flaw
• Gibbous – adj. convex at both edges, s the moon when more than half full; humpbacked
• Fricative – adj. (of a speech sound) characterized by audible friction produced by forcing the breath through a constricted or partially obstructed passage in the vocal tract; spirantal; spirant; n. Also called spirant – a fricative consonant as th, v or h. 
• Eponymous – adj. giving one’s name to a tribe, place, etc. (Romulus, the eponymous founder of Rome.)
• Crapulous – adj. given to or characterized by gross excess of drinking or eating; suffering from or due to such excess.
• Chiaroscuro – n. the distribution of light and shade in a picture; Painting – the use of deep variations in and suble gradations of light and shade; a woodcut print in which the colours are produced by the use of different blocks with different colours; a sketch in light and shade
• Bouleversement – n. an overturning; convulsion; turmoil
• Ataraxia – n. a state of freedom from emotional disturbance and anxiety; tranquility

These are just a few of the words I have recently added to my collection.  I hope you enjoy them as much as I have.  Which is your favourite?  Use it in a sentence in a comment below.  (Yes, that is a challenge!)