Wondrous Words Wednesday
Wondrous Words Wednesday is a weekly meme where you can share new words that you’ve encountered or spotlight words you love. Feel free to get creative! 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 Faith by Jennifer Haigh.
1. friable – “And yet somehow, he came through unscathed; his own masculinity, however stunted and friable, was never questioned.”
Friable is an adjective that means easily crumbled or pulverized: fragile.
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2. gantry – “It’s a place I’ve always disliked – its shiny brass gantry, its canned Irishness – but it’s close to school and to a subway stop, handy since a few of us will inevitably overimbibe.”
I felt like I should know gantry, but I didn’t. Gantry has several meanings, but I think the meaning in this case is a frame structure raised on side supports so as to span over or around something.
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3. diaconate – “For the diaconate year, as his classmates dispersed to local parishes, he was sent to a shelter in the city’s South End.”
Diaconate is the office or period of office of a deacon or deaconess.
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Oh, I like! Man, friable is a total gem. Using it, stat!
All really new words for me. Can only think of Elmer Gantry a book and movie.
Sounds like your book is set in Irish Catholic Boston!!! Off to check Faith out and add to my TBR list.
All new words to me as well!
I knew friable but the other two were new to me. Good choices this week!
I felt the same about gantry..the others I knew.
I knew gantry, but the others were new to me.
I only knew the last one!!!!
I had to look up diaconate when I read this book, too!
Sort of knew diaconate.
I knew friable and THOUGHT I knew gantry – but, nope! LOL! Thank you, as always, for hosting!
These are some interesting words today Kathy…all new to me!
All of these are new to me as well!
Faith looks like an interesting read, and I’m liking the word friable! Thanks for introducing the book and the vocab words.
I am always learning new words
These are very clever words…I felt friable while the roof stuff was going on…that’s for sure!
One of my favorite things about this meme is that I learn which books you are reading so I can look forward to seeing the review soon!
You got me this week–I haven’t heard of any of these three!!
An, I do like “friable.” I like that one a lot.
Hmmm, I didn’t know any of them.
The first two seemed familiar, but the last one I certainly wouldn’t have known.
These are all new to me, I like friable
I didn’t know “gantry”, but friable and diaconat are used too in French !
Friable would be a great SAT word LOL (sorry I have SATs on the brain b/c my stepdaughter just took hers).
I love your Wednesday posts because it always reminds me that I have much still to learn!