I finally have added a Word of the Week category to my moveable type (MT) interface to this blog. It’s getting to the point where a word rams its way into my head, completely out of nowhere, and I immediately recognize that it will be stuck in my head all week long. Earlier this week, it was obvious the the WotW was “obdurate”, a word which I had never used outloud still haven’t used in a sentence. Pronounced obdur-rit, it means “stubborn in wretchedness” or somesuch.
I can at least attribute the context under which that word came into my mind to a situation. I have no such luxury for the word that squirmed in last night, monosyllabic. Meaning exactly what it looks like it means, though perhaps more flexible than dictionary.com gives it credit for, monosyllabic can be used in a disparaging way to describe boring and/or inarticulate people’s speech as well as the stuffy technical definition.
I think the increase in WotW production is directly related to my increase in reading, specifically Latourette’s History of Christianity, which is decidedly not monosyllabic. Interestingly, that link is only loosely related to the book, but I would like to take that class, and I should try to read some of those sources. Anyway, I swear he just had a typo, speaking of when a prince reached his majority when he meant to say that he reach his maturity. It will be a long time before his favorite word, eschatological becomes WotW, because I still can’t use it properly, not even a little bit.
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