mind you... i don't think my word stock is severely lacking. i just realize the limitation and i'm always trying to beef it up a bit.
i think part of my problem stems from my desire to write dialogue in the vernacular of "the people" and - thus - i keep it simple. (and i love short, incomplete thoughts and sentences.)
but i heard a delicious word yesterday i just had to look up:
deleteriousisn't it fabulous? just the sound of the word... deleterious. and the meaning only increases my affection for the adjective.
from dictionary.com:
del·e·te·ri·ous (děl'ĭ-tîr'ē-əs) adj.i really do love coming across new words. i found this one particularly interesting and thought i'd share.
Having a harmful effect; injurious: the deleterious effects of smoking.
[From Greek dēlētērios, from dēlētēr, destroyer, from dēleisthai, to harm.]
i guarantee you.... sister epiphenita of the boundless vocabulary knew what it meant.
(she makes me feel like such a schmendrick.)
schmendrick (noun)oy vey.
"stupid person," 1944, from Yiddish shmendrik, from the name of a character in an operetta by Avrom Goldfaden (1840-1908), “Father of Yiddish Theater.”
e.
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darling un-schmendrick e, you are so sweet. yes, it's true. i do love me some deleterious behaviors.
today, however, i am in love with esses:
scab·rous /ˈskæbrəs/, –adjective
1. having a rough surface because of minute points or projections.
2. indecent or scandalous; risqué; obscene: scabrous books.
3. full of difficulties.
(plus it sounds scabby.)
and:
sup·pu·rate /ˈsʌpyəˌreɪt/, –verb
to produce or discharge pus, as a wound; maturate.
thank you for sharing my ridiculous, boundless love of words. if it makes you feel any better, any number of authors (salman rushdie, david foster wallace, thomas pynchon) make me feel like a total tard.
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