if i’m being honest, i haven’t been too good with this week’s weekly challenge of learning a new vocab word every day. i started strong, but i’ve been out of town since wednesday so it slipped my mind on several of the days. but don’t worry, i’m not letting myself get off that easy – those that i didn’t learn this week, i will be working on committing to memory today. here are the words, which i chose off of this website:
monday: adumbrate
(v.) to sketch out in a vague way (The coach adumbrated a game plan, but none of the players knew precisely what to do.)
tuesday: obfuscate
(v.) to render incomprehensible (The detective did not want to answer the newspaperman’s questions, so he obfuscated the truth.)
wednesday: iconoclast
(n.) one who attacks common beliefs or institutions (Jane goes to one protest after another, but she seems to be an iconoclast rather than an activist with a progressive agenda.)
thursday: hackneyed
(adj.) unoriginal, trite (A girl can only hear “I love you” so many times before it begins to sound hackneyed and meaningless.)
friday: nascent
(adj.) in the process of being born or coming into existence (Unfortunately, my brilliant paper was only in its nascent form on the morning that it was due.)
saturday: paucity
(adj.) small in quantity (Gilbert lamented the paucity of twentieth-century literature courses available at the college.)
and i saved the best for last:
sunday: grandiloquence
(n.) lofty, pompous language (Jessica thought her grandiloquence would make her sound smart, but her friends nor her readers bought it.) ;)
this week, in honor of memorial day and all the fallen defenders of our freedom, i will be taking a cue from some family friends, the mays, and will be putting flags out for the veterans in a local cemetery. i think it’s a nice reminder that the holiday isn’t about picnics and parties at the lake, and even though we can enjoy those things with our family and friends, i want to remember the reason for those holiday – all those brave men and women who have died for our country. thank you, thank you for giving your life for our liberty.
