Diction is a fancy term that simply means "word choice." One of the best ways to improve your writing is to strengthen your vocabulary. For this week's blog post, you need only post one word at a time, but you must post three different times throughout the week. The word you choose must be a powerful, strong word and it must start with the same letter the previous entry ended with. If you think some of us won't be familiar with your word, please list a brief definition. I will start...
ambiguous: open to interpretation
(So the next entry must start with an 's.')
23 comments:
Succumbent- Submissive; yielding
Tantamount: equivalent in value, significance, or effect
Transcendentalism:
1. Any of various philosophies that propose to discover the nature of reality by investigating the process of thought rather than the objects of sense experience.
2. Any obscure, visionary, or idealistic thought.
Mendacious:
1. telling lies, esp. habitually, dishonest, lying, untruthful
2. false or untrue
Strangelet: theorized cosmological object comprised of an exotic form of matter known as strange matter or quark matter.
Tropological:
relating to, or involving biblical interpretation stressing moral metaphor
Lichgate: a roofed gate to a churchyard, formerly used as a temporary shelter for the bier during funerals
Event Horizon- the region of a black hole where all light and matter are absorbed and can not escape
Necromancerone: one who practices magic or sorcery
Existentialism:
A philosophy that emphasizes the uniqueness and isolation of the individual experience in a hostile or indifferent universe, regards human existence as unexplainable, and stresses freedom of choice and responsibility for the consequences of one's acts.
Mandragora:
1) A genus of stemless herbs of the family Solanaceae
2) In myth, mandragoras are familiar demons who appear in the figures of little men without beards
Armozeen
n. [armosin, armoisin.] A thick plain silk, generally black, and used for clerical. --Simmonds.
Nihilism:
1. total rejection of established laws and institutions.
2. anarchy, terrorism, or other revolutionary activity.
3. total and absolute destructiveness, esp. toward the world at large and including oneself.
4. a. an extreme form of skepticism: the denial of all real existence or the possibility of an objective basis for truth. b. nothingness or nonexistence.
5. annihilation of the self, or the individual consciousness.
Malinger-To fake illness in order to avoid work or duty
rambunctious:difficult to control or handle; wildly boisterous
Scintillating- Lively and exceptionally intelligent; animated and brilliant
gymkhana-a display of athletic or equestrian contests
Accolade-
an expression of approval
Enharmonic-A term used to describe notes of the same pitch which have different names
Communists-a member of the Communist party or movement
Sexist-pertaining to, involving, or fostering sexism
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