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Word of the Day – Heliotrope

  • Noun: Heliotrope
    1. a plant of the borage family, cultivated for its fragrant purple or blue flowers, which are used in perfumeheliotrope
  • Adjective: Heliotrope
  1. a light purple color, similar to that typical of heliotrope flowers
  • Synonyms:
    1. Purple
    2. Burgundy
    3. Grape
  • Usage:
    • “Struggling with the string of a packet, she opened a white cardboard box, and there lay a white silk handkerchief packed neatly under the paper lace of the box, and her initial, worked in heliotrope, fully displayed. She smiled pleasantly, and gently put the box aside”
  • Encountered:
    • The short story The White Stocking by D. H. Lawrence

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Word of the Day – Peevish

  • Noun:  Peevish
    • querulous in temperament or mood
    • perversely obstinate
    • marked by ill temper
  • Synonyms:
    • Choleric
    • Crabby
    • Cranky
    • Grumpy
    • Snappish
  • Usage:
    • “So, her rather good-looking square face was peevish, she had that air of having been compelled all her life to serve unwillingly, and to control where she did not want to control.”
  • Encountered:
    • The short story Daughters of the Vicar by D. H. Lawrence

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Word of the Day – Collier

  • Noun:  Collier
    • A coal miner
    • A ship carrying coal
  • Synonyms:collier
    • Miner
    • Pitman
    • Coaler
    • Digger
  • Usage:
    • “”You don’t want to marry a collier, you little fool,” cried Mrs Lindley harshly. She lay obese and helpless upon the couch, swathed in a loose, dove-grey gown.”
  • Encountered:
    • The short story Daughters of the Vicar by D. H. Lawrence

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Word of the Day – Ignoramus

  •  Noun:  Ignoramus
    1. An ignorant or stupid person
    2. a person who does not know muchben carson
  • Synonyms:
    1. Blockhead
    2. Dimwit
    3. Dunce
    4. Fool
    5. Idiot
    6. Imbecile
    7. Numbskull
  • Usage: 
    • “They argue that they’ll get things done, Trump through the force of his will, and Carson because he is untainted by politics. Ask either one of them about a specific policy issue, and it quickly becomes clear that when it comes to the issues a president deals with, they’re utter ignoramuses, which is perhaps understandable, if less than reassuring. […]”
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Word of the Day – Anodyne

  • Adjective: Anodyne
    1. not likely to provoke dissent or offense; inoffensive, often deliberately so. “anodyne New Age music”
  • Noun: Anodyne
    1. a painkilling drug or medicine.
  • Synonyms (adjective):
  1. Harmless
  2. Benign
  3. Innocent
  4. Innocuous
  5. Inoffensive
  6. Safe
  • Usage:

“Like the Mule, it cut the ginger beer’s sweetness with half a lime, squeezed into the glass and then dropped into it. And like the Mule, it was based on the cutting-edge spirit of its day. In 1900—and here’s why I prefer the drink—that meant not an anodyne distillate like vodka, but rather a good, rich blended Scotch whisky.”

  • Encountered:

While reading an article on The Daily Beast – Mamie Taylor is the Original Moscow Mule

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Word of the Day – Chyron

  • Noun: Chyron
    1. an electronically generated caption superimposed on a television or movie screen.
  • Synonyms:
    1. None found
  • Usage:

“Reaction to the “nasty woman” line was ebullient on the left, trending on Twitter thanks to women appropriating the designation for themselves. Cable news was a garden of “nasty” chyrons for days afterwards..”

  • Encountered:

While reading an article on The Daily Beast – Trump Finally Pissed Off the Wrong Women. All of Them.

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Word of the Day – Sepulchral

Sepulchral

  •  Adjective: sepulchral
    1. very sad and serious : very dismal or gloomy
    2. of or relating to a sepulchre
  • Synonyms:
    1. Gloomy
    2. Lugubrious
    3. Somber
    4. Melancholy
    5. Melancholic
    6. Sad
    7. Sorrowful
    8. Mournful
    9. Doleful
    10. Dismal
    11. literary dolorous
  • Usage:

‘”Amuse yourself well!” replied Bonacieux, in a sepulchral tone.’

  • Encountered:

Reading The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

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Word of the Day – Habiliment

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  •  Noun: Habiliment (archaic and usual use is plural)
    1. Plural: characteristic apparatus; trappings
    2. The dress characteristic of an occupation or occasion – usually in the plural
    3. Clothes – usually in the plural
  • Synonyms:
    1. apparel
    2. attire
    3. clothes
    4. dress
    5. garb
    6. gown
    7. trappings
  • Usage:

“Behind this figure glowed a vast fireplace alive with leaping flames; great logs of oak blazed and crackled on the polished brass andirons whose flicker shone upon the superb habiliments of the lonely tenant of the room, which was illumined grandly by twin candelabra rich with wax-lights.”

  • Encountered:

While reading Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

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