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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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