Monthly Archives: July 2009
Salubrious adventure in Yosemite
Salubrious: adjective meaning good for you, healthful, clean healthy air, favorable to the mind or body. Stuck in traffic, twenty minutes outside the Yosemite gates. Jon and I were playing one of those repetitive memory games where the first player says, “The Minister’s cat is an atrocious cat,” and the next repeats the phrase adding [...]
Categories: Activities, etymology, Ponderings
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Growing a lexicon . . .
Perspicacious: adjective meaning having keen understanding and perception; shrewd; having vision. More awesome derivation of the word: Perspicacity Here’s a confession: my vocabulary? Contemptible. My memory for new terms? Even worse. Sometimes I task myself with reciting all the words I’ve blogged along with their definitions, the way one might study for a elementary school [...]
Categories: etymology, Ponderings
Tags: active vocabulary, dumbledore, lexicon, new york times, passive vocabulary, perspicacious, philip corbett, reading, vocabulary
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Faster than 1000 words:
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