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 comes from The Summer Without Men by Siri Hustvedt.
1. disquisition – “My father and my husband, both prone to long disquisitions about torts or genes and so mute about their own suffering.”
A disquisition is a formal inquiry into or discussion of a subject: discourse.
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2. multiloquy – “My own head was a storehouse for multioquy, the flux de mots of myriad contrarians who argued and debated and skewered one another with mordant parley and then started up all over again.”
Multiloquy is a mouthful that means an excess of words or talk. You can hear how it’s pronounced here.
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3. clochard – “I told him he looked bad, like a clochard, but he just kept saying he was fine.”
A clochard is a tramp or a vagrant.
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Have you discovered any new words lately?
I love the word – multiloquy. I like that sentence too! Thanks for the words!
I knew all three this week, yay! Still wouldn’t know how to use multiloquy in a sentence, though.
Holy moly. I would have to have a dictionary out to read this novel!
You got me on all three words! I think I’ll try to use clochard next time my daughter’s hair is in disarray!
I love multiloquy. So interesting. Thanks for sharing!
I love the word and definition for clochard. I want to find a way to use it in a sentence without it seeming weird!
Such great words — loved how you included the pronunciation link too!
3 great words this week- all new to me. I think my favourite is clochard. Perhaps because it’s from the French, it sounds much fancier than tramp or vagrant. But it isn’t.
Great words!
Those are all new to me, although I do like “clochard”.
Disquisition is a mouthful! I learned this word in law school! And Multiloquy is another word that sure is a mouthful! It’s definition sure fits. I don’t think I’d ever pronounce that word correctly!
Clochard is such an elegant way to say tramp!
The Summer without Men seems heavy on major words. I’ll need a dictionary by my side if I read it! I hope you’re enjoying the book, Kathy!
I just knew “clochard” because it’s French. We say too “vivre à la cloche”= to live like a “clochard”. The two other words were new to me and I found multiloquy beautiful !
I like disquisition. Somehow I can see those two men sitting there doing that.
This reminds me of yesterday, 4 neighbor girls came by to visit and wanted me to read to them. While reading I would stop and say who knows what such and such a word means, if no one knew the meaning we looked it up in the dictionary. Later in the afternoon we were all watching a movie, and the 5 year old kept doing something that the 11 year old kept telling her not to do, The 11 year old said to the 5 year old, “I have told you multiple times to quit that!” The five year old said, “What does Multiple mean?” We all said, “MANY!!” ; )
Enjoyed, the new words.
New ones yet again
Hi Kathy,
It’s no wonder that she needs a summer without men, she needed that time, to make up all those great new words!! LOL
Really, they are all fantastic and I have never heard of a single one of them, but they do all sound rather made up words, especially ‘disquisition’.
I love the sound of the book, but would need to be online and logged into a dictionary, before I could start reading.
Thanks for a great, fun post
Of those, I’d be most like to use clochard. What words you come up with!
Since it’s about talking and words and such, I just HAVE to love multiloquy. :O)
I must be using only a small portion of the english language. Every week I’m learning new words… now to remember and use them!
Love disquisition. Makes me think of political discussions with my father-in-law when I’m praying my phone will ring or the kids will have a crisis I need to take care of.
These are some pretty big words – lol! My favorite is clochard – I may have to use that one.
I have that book too – I’ll have to remember to have my dictionary handy when I read it!
I love the sound of multiloquy !
I love these words! Thank you.
Shucks, gosh, darn…I rarely know any of them…and if I were to encounter an unusual word in what I read…I would forget it…I need to learn to jot stuff down…
Multiloquy–so that’s what’s happening inside my head. My favorite is clochard–such an elegant way to call someone a slob
Thank you.
I would so murder trying to say multioquy….:D
Clochard looked familiar to me, but then it’s meaning was far from what I thought.
What a great meme! Must try to join this next week. First time seeing these words – they’re definitely a “multiloquy”!
That entire sentence in the second example is a mouthful!