Wondrous Words Wednesday
Wondrous Words Wednesday is a weekly meme where we share new (to us) words that we’ve encountered in our reading. If you want to play along, grab the button, write a post and come back and add your link to Mr. Linky! All of my words this week came from my handy Word-a-Day calendar.
1. erumpent– “Amid the dull noise of the crowd was heard an erumpent voice calling out, ‘Make way for the queen!’”
Erumpent is an adjective that means bursting forth. It started out as a scientific term and has been used mostly in reference to fungi.
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2. jejune – “The debate between the two candidates was uninformative and jejune, giving the audience no new insight on their stances on the important issues.”
In this case, jejune means devoid of significance or interest: dull. I love the sound of this word!
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3. abnegate– “The mayor has ordered the city’s finance control board to abnegate some of its powers.”
In this sentence, abnegate means to surrender or relinquish.
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Have you come across any new words lately?
jejune rolls off pretty nicely.
Morning from Snowy New York…still here…at least I have my son’s home to stay in. No flights to Pittsburgh until Friday. I may just take the bus back.
Always wondrous words for you..they are great.
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Like you I think jejune sounds good but I’d be more apt to use abnegate in “real life”.
another good day…I know one!!
abnegate!
3 great words there today. The jejunum is the middle of the three named sections of the small bowel, between the duodenum and ileum. Its name stems from jejune- it was often found to be empty in post mortem, and so thought to be empty and well, dull.
Interesting ones. I like erumpent especially when it’s used with fungi!
Erumpent kind of reminds me of trumpet. I like your word choices today!!
Lol, I do like erumpent
Wow, erumpent signifying activities of either fungi or queens! hmmmm, I wonder how royalty would feel about that!
Ayurvedic
The conventional Hindu system of medicine, founded chiefly on naturopathy and homeopathy.
From the book Nature’s Secret Messages: Hidden in Plain Sight (page xiii) by Elaine Wilkes.
I love jejune, I would love to use it often. They are all great words. Here are mine for this week.
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I love jejune! Something about the way it sounds. . .
jejune is rocking my world! xoxox
jejune sounds like a southern drink – like mint julep! I’ll have a jejune as my after-dinner beverage!
I received a word-a-day calendar for 2011. I may be joining you on the weeks I don’t have new words in my reading.
Some days I really wonder about my lack of knowledge!
Very good words! Here is mine for the week: http://myonlinebookjournal.wordpress.com/.
jejune!
I am late to read my words this week! Jejune sounds like a French word. I need a Word-a-Day calendar for 2011!
Jejune is much too beautiful of a word to mean dull!
Jejune is a much ‘less dull’ way of saying dull… I’ll use
that!
Jejune for me too.. what a fun word!!
Erumpent! Magnificent–and now mostly used to describe fungi…LOL
Great words, all. Not a one of them jejune.