Oh, and here's something fun. I keep a list of words that I come across where I have NO IDEA of their meaning. And someday, I'm going to look them all up. But for right now, here's my list (you should post if you know the meanings of any of these):
morass
Zeugma
antediluvian
Chicaneries
Pedantic
aplomb
doppelganger
apropos
floatsam and jetsam
I used to have hubris in there, but I took that out. I've learned more than enough about hubris in the past two months.
3 comments:
doppleganger looks like the word copperdonger. a made up word my friend used in 7th grade for a hair scrunchie.
I know! I know! I was going to not put the meanings of the words here so as to let you have your own surprise, but since you asked...
-antediluvian: literally, the Biblical period before the flood. Colloquially, it might just mean that something came from a long, long time ago.
-chicanery: trickery.
-pedantic: stodgy, boring, done in a very very tick-tock, blah blah sort of way. I always think of an old professor (not mine, I made-up one) in association with this word.
-aplomb: confidence. If you do something with aplomb, you go for it with a feeling that hey, you know what you're doing.
-doppleganger: bizarre but true, the main meaning for this is a ghost of a living person or something like that. Otherwise, it is used to refer to someone's alter ego, other self, yada yada.
-apropos: Timeliness. If something is done with apropos, it was done at the right time.
-flotsam and jetsam: First and foremost, Ursula the sea witch's sidekick eels in Disney's "The Little Mermaid." Formally...
jetsam: Stuff thrown overboard from a ship
flotsam: Debris, from a ship, floating in the water. So you throw it off with jetsam, and then it becomes flotsam.
And there you are! I know, strange words that no one uses. It's kinda my job to know lots of words, but mostly my love!
I'm glad you liked the very casual meal of soba noodles Stella. I agree--though in their native habitat, they're usually served cold, I'm more for the hot noodle. Soon to come: my recipe for Provence Tomato Soup!
Erin is awesome! (now, can you just come with me to my rhetoric class where they always use big, fancy words?)
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